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Kickboxing Training – Are Kickboxing Trainers Brainwashing You?
By Scott | January 24, 2010
Most kickboxing instructors want to brainwash you into thinking that there is only one style of kickboxing training. That is because they want to get you accustomed to their particular style and make sure you think that all other styles are garbage. This is why the MMA revolution was so big, and why Bruce Lee was so revolutionary. Bruce Lee understood ranges of combat, and he understood no one style could have all the answers, as evidenced now in MMA. So before you break in your new kickboxing routine, realize there are more styles of cardio kickboxing or general kickboxing than just one.
Any good coach will let you know up front that there are several styles of kickboxing. They will educate you and enlighten you to the broad array of kickboxing styles and help you choose which ones are right for you, and which moves are right for your particular style. I know what you’re thinking now…
I have a kickboxing style?
Yes, in my experience in training people. You do have a kickboxing style even in the early stages of training. For example, I know when someone walks into my class, they are either naturally suited for Muay Thai or Savate. It never fails. I can see it almost instantaneously by the way and I start tailoring their experience more toward that way. I help make ready the innate talents they already have so that if they need the skill, they don’t have to rehearse thousands of times before they can use the skill. I don’t try to mold them into something they’re not until they are more skilled in what they do best already. You don’t need the extra stuff until your good at what you’re already doing. Any good school will show you the ropes of your own style and allow you to study it until it’s whipped up into shape. That way, your study will be maximized for greatest effect. Your tools will be sharpened to their maximize edge, and you’ll be a seasoned pro in no time. This is the best way for a kickboxing training school to show care for you. Your talents should always be cultivated for who you are, and not for the particular discipline. That way, you are developed into the best fighter you can be early in your training, and then you grow stronger by adding the styles that are more awkward for you.
Being taught techniques that are wrong for your style will only habituate bad practice that you will have to drill over and over just to get it right. This information has to be literally “drummed into” you. And it might even harden you to the training experience. It won’t be natural, and it won’t even be fun. The other effect that will happen is that when you have a dry run or a sparring match you’re tutoring will hinder you. You will be too worried about where your left toes while you get run through. This is because you were never properly equipped to handle the situation with the right set of skills. The exercises chosen for you were wrong for you in the first place, and all that time spent getting in shape for kickboxing will be wasted.
So when you go to find a place to get a workout in. You should try to qualify your instructor before training with them. This guide should have been reared and honed in many styles, to help you find your own style. They should be able to instruct you and shape you to the proper style for you. They should help you improve upon your own natural style and tame any bad habits you have before you get them. They should always have your prime talents in mind when teaching you. So before you inure, yourself to an instructor, make sure they know the proper warm ups, and they wise up to your natural kickboxing style before they start pushing you into a style that’s not right for you. That way, when you do start to workout with them, you can easily update your natural style. And you’ll be ready for the next phase of your training, ground work.
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