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I've been training for about a year and have had one pkb muay thai fight (essentially light-contact K-1). I recently got approached by a local fight promoter after he watched me spar on an open sparring day. I told him to talk to my coach and subsequently got offered a fight.

The promoter said it would be against a 19 year old (I'm 23) with one year of experience and no record at 165 on December 5th. Both my coaches and I thought it would be a good match-up for me. So, I signed the contract and started fight camp.

Yesterday, I came to find out through my coaches that the promoter had either been unaware of or lied about my opponents experience. He has been training since he was a kid and has had around 35 of those pkb fights I mentioned earlier. He had also trained at the gym im at now, and one of my coaches had trained with him. I was discussing the fight with that coach today, and while he expressed confidence in me being game to take the fight, he also told me to remember why we have amateur fights while I decide if I want to take it or not. I took that to mean he was worried about what would happen to me in this fight.

I already told my coach last night that I wanted to still fight, but after hearing from the one that had trained with him, I'm having a lot of doubts. Is there any advice on how I should approach this?

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Hey guys, noob guy here. Been trainning for 2 months and been feeling quite confident about my progress, im a very fit guy and and have no issues on the cardio and strenght aspect of it. What im asking here is should i start going to sparring? Im a bit scared to go and get hit! I got 14oz gloves and the whole kit already sorted out to start. Thank you sm!

Never been to an event in Japan before, not sure what the process is and going alone! Anything i should know, keep track of or be aware of time-wise?

Any advice would help! Also how should i stop myself from lunging forward on cross

Where do you guys usually watch One championship on? Free/paid ways? I really wanna watch the main event. Or if anyone watches it alone we can watch together.

Hi everybody

I want to travel to vietnam in January and I also want to continue training Kickboxing/K1, do you have some advices Where to go? Is there some Material arts community like Thailand?

Hello. I've been practicing this sport for 7 months now. we have two hours of training, divided between warm-ups, shadowboxing, and other drills. Sometimes we do punching bags, then we learn 3 or 4 techniques to practice with our teammates, followed by sparing. I've concluded that mastering a single technique consisting of at least 3 consecutive punches requires moderate to significant experience. I'd like a youtube channel or guidance from someone who can advise beginners like myself on the key elements they need to gradually master in a sparing. For example, the jab, the jab cross , Jab Low kick and other techniques. I hope my explanation is clear.

Hey, I've been training k1 for a bit over a year now and I want to learn how to throw stab kicks - the teep you hit with your toes like how Yuki Yoza throws them for example. If anyone has any advice or video tutorials online of how to do the technique properly. And also conditioning advice because I'm aware it's easy to mess your toes up doing this. Thanks

Hi guys,

​As the title suggests, I'm looking for advice from people who started their combat sports journey as thinner individuals but managed to put on good size while training.

​For context, I'm in my second week of a kickboxing/BJJ beginner course and am already realizing that I desperately need to put on some more size.

​I'm a 29-year-old male, 190 cm, and weigh 90 kg. As you can imagine, I don't have a whole lot of muscle mass or strength at the moment and would really like to bulk up.

I'm aware that I need to simply eat more, something that I've been working on these past few weeks, but I wanted to know whether anyone could recommend any gym splits/advice on frequency of gym training to put on muscle mass while not being detrimental to my combat sports training.

​My course runs all week, but I can only train perhaps two to three days per week in the evenings, with some of these sessions being two hours long (one hour of kickboxing, one hour of BJJ, etc.). However, I am able to go to the gym in the mornings before work.

​I'm asking for advice because I see a lot of differing opinions on how to balance weight gain with combat sports training, so it would be great to hear how others on this sub have managed it in the past.

​Thanks in advance!

Hi, I have recently started Kickboxing and I am planning to have training sessions once or twice a week if possible.

However I have also been continuously going to the gym for the past 4 years or so (about 3 times a week, somewhat consistently) and I am wondering the following:

What are some of the things you guys train at the gym (outside of Kickboxing classes) that also help you improve at this particular martial art?

I am pretty sure most of you would say things related to cardio/stamina and I'd love to get your opinion on what specifically helps in a fighting context, but I also mean more specifically training with weights or classic gym exercises that are aimed at the muscles used during fighting.

Hey Guys,

Kyokushin Karate white belt here.

How would you guys train the low kick if you don't have a bag or pads to hit at home?

Is going through motions in air enough and then apply them in sparring at training?

Also, I can do it pretty well-ish on my right leg, but I need some work with my left, how would you approach this?

Thanks so much, would love to hear what you guys do/have done :)

Thanks!

Beginner (no formal coaching). Any tips so I can improve. (Stance, form, kicks or anything)

Not sure that my title puts this right but I'll try to explain.

On Saturday I was at a comp and got the silver but in the final I had chances to win I could have pressed. Watching it back there was opportunities where I had him on the ropes and I automatically withdrew.

I put this down to how I spar. When I spar I rarely do press my advantage for two reasons, one I'm not there to hurt my training partners and two they need to get something out of it as well and if I'm only pressing them that's difficult for them to do.

So what do you put into your sparring so you don't face the same issues as me?

##Timmy!!!##

By international I mean tournaments outside of Kyokushin included.

I'm a newbie here.

I go to the kickboxing gym once in a week cuz it's too far away from here.

So,I want a routine on how to train myself at home?and suggest me some diy equipments to train with.

I'm a teenager so make me a routine

It'd be a pleasure to you

Thanks in advance

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