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The United States has a curious habit of inventing its own sports
sometimes this is really interesting and cool Sometimes this is a major handicap
In the sport of kickboxing it has been a devastating decision
Throughout the world kickboxing has a handful of primary Styles but they all revolve around the traditional King from Southeast Asia....
Muay Thai
Instead of adopting the internationally accepted styles America took kickboxing and created its own unique particular style
American kickboxing competitors were required to wear padding Across The Shins and feet and were disallowed from kicking to the legs or throwing knee techniques of any kind
This isn't a minor tweak like removing elbows as they do in Europe and Japan by disallowing leg kicks and knees you radically changed the sport and create a completely different style
It turns out the leg kicking and knee stye was wildly Superior when the two Styles went head-to-head and we learned the hard way
Here's of couple videos of some of the most dominant American kickboxers getting beat by they're leg kicking counterparts
to this day Americas still hasn't produced a dominant kickboxing champion in any weight class
https://www.glorykickboxing.com/fighters
sometimes this is really interesting and cool Sometimes this is a major handicap
In the sport of kickboxing it has been a devastating decision
Throughout the world kickboxing has a handful of primary Styles but they all revolve around the traditional King from Southeast Asia....
Muay Thai
Instead of adopting the internationally accepted styles America took kickboxing and created its own unique particular style
American kickboxing competitors were required to wear padding Across The Shins and feet and were disallowed from kicking to the legs or throwing knee techniques of any kind
This isn't a minor tweak like removing elbows as they do in Europe and Japan by disallowing leg kicks and knees you radically changed the sport and create a completely different style
It turns out the leg kicking and knee stye was wildly Superior when the two Styles went head-to-head and we learned the hard way
Here's of couple videos of some of the most dominant American kickboxers getting beat by they're leg kicking counterparts
to this day Americas still hasn't produced a dominant kickboxing champion in any weight class
https://www.glorykickboxing.com/fighters