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the art of having strong opinions and expressing them with your shins
means A combat sport and martial art that blends boxing-style punches with kicks, typically fought standing in a ring.
from A plain English compound of 'kick' and 'boxing,' coined in the mid-20th century as Western practitioners fused karate-style kicking with the punches of boxing. The Japanese promoter Osamu Noguchi is often credited with popularizing the term in the 1960s for a hybrid built partly on Thai boxing; 'kick' itself is old and likely Scandinavian in root, while 'box' as 'to fight with fists' is of obscure origin but in English since at least the 1500s.
- shin myth
- Repeated impact thickens bone via remodeling, not nerve death
- dutch dominance
- Netherlands fused karate with boxing into brutal efficiency
- calorie burn
- One hour torches up to 750 calories
- clinch game
- Muay Thai adds knees, elbows, and grappling control
- old roots
- Modern form emerged in 1960s Japan and America
glory kickboxing — premier heavyweight division founded in 2012, hosts world championship tournaments
k-1 world grand prix — annual tournament held in japan 1993-2012, considered kickboxing's world cup with 16 competitors