Introduction to Kickboxing

Series Summary

Mixed Martial Arts Kickboxing, normally associated with cage fighting, blends many different fighting forms including: Muay Thai Kickboxing, Judo, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Boxing, and Wrestling. Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has gained in popularity since the first Ultimate Fighting Championship won by Royce Gracie. It is so popular it will soon become an Olympic Event and was actually set to be included in the 2004 games but lost its place at the last minute. MMA fighters have historically trained in a specific martial art such as Muay Thai Boxing or Brazilian Jiu Jitsu before combining the techniques; however, recently students have begun to train specifically for MMA with other students and a variety of trainers. If you would like to learn Mixed Martial Arts kickboxing techniques learn from one of our experts.

In this free online video series learn Mixed Martial Arts Kickboxing techniques from MMA cage fighter Andrew Bridden. He will teach you kickboxing moves such as the thai clinch, the roundhouse kick, knee strike, switch kick, spinning rear kick, punch combinations, and advanced strike combinations. Learn also how to warm up, how to check leg kicks, how to defend against punches, how to escape a thai clinch, how to do the superman punch, and how to toughen up your legs.

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Kyle Reese we are here at the Arizona Center of Mixed Martial Arts on behalf of expertvillage.com today we are going to look at Muay Thai kick boxing Muay Thai kick boxing is a form of kick boxing that involves a lot of knees. A lot of elbows. You will kick with your chin rather with your foot. Muay Thai kick boxing regional in Thailand. The difference from Americas kick boxing is that you are allow to kick to the low legs, below the waist. Still no groin shots but by attacking the legs they really limits the mobility of your opponent. So lets look at some techniques right now."