As a practice:As a practice sport kickboxing is a relatively recent sport in the West. It can be played in a ring or tatami under the watchful eye of an umpire and a set of judges. These, enforce a regulation that protects the athletes and counts points, the result of each attack that will dictate victory, when this is not explicit. Being a contact sport is practiced with protections for the safety of the athletes. The earliest sporting records of muay thai, the fighting art that gave rise to kickboxing as we know it today, date back to seventeenth-century Thailand as we have already seen. It only crossed borders into Japan in the late 1950s, when the first thai boxers went there to demonstrate their art and fight against the powerful Japanese karate. Until then, Thailand was an unknown, enigmatic country, as was its fighting art. The Japanese were loyal to their refined, technical, skillful karate and superior to all other Asian arts. The first challenges between karate and muay thai fighters were broadcast live on television throughout Japan. Millions of viewers were able to see karateas dressed in impeccable white robes, contrasting tight black belts, breaking bricks, boards, rocks and ice, With blows of hands and feet. Next, thay fighters of shorts enter, displaying bodies punished in training, simply adorned with mongkon on the head and prajied on the arm, which gave no respite to the karate. For the Japanese it was almost a humiliation, forcing them to review the effectiveness of their favorite martial art, karate. This meeting marked the first time that the word kickboxing was used to define a fighting sport where it was kicked and boxed at the same time, because it is difficult to correctly pronounce the term muay thay.
Sem comentários:
Enviar um comentário