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Boxing is the oldest and best-known combat sport of Western origin. Athletes, divided into weight categories, face each other in a ring, striking with closed fists (protected by boxing gloves) in order to weaken and knock down their opponent. Since the 11th century, this sport has also been known as “The Noble Art,” as it requires its practitioners to possess qualities such as courage, strength, and intelligence. It is the only ring sport to have been admitted to the Olympic Games.
kick boxing
Kickboxing is a combat sport that combines kicking techniques typical of oriental martial arts with punching techniques from English boxing. The term "kickboxing" was coined in Japan in the 1960s. Japanese promoters, seeing the success of Muay Thai matches, after studying the various existing competition rules, decided to eliminate elbow strikes, clinching, and later also knee strikes. It remained a combat sport in which athletes use punches and kicks to the legs, torso, and face. This is how "Japanese kickboxing" was born, later abbreviated to "kickboxing", a discipline that quickly spread worldwide with enormous success.
MUAY THAI
Muay Thai, also known as Thai boxing, is a full-contact combat sport that originated from Mae Mai Muay Thai, an ancient Thai martial art. The discipline is known as "the art of eight limbs" because it allows the two contenders to use combinations of punches, kicks, elbows, and knee strikes, thus eight body parts used as points of contact, compared to two in boxing or four in kickboxing.
Original Muay Thai became popular in the 16th century in the ancient Kingdom of Siam, but only spread internationally in the 20th century, thanks to some substantial changes in the competition rules that transformed it into an effective and spectacular ring discipline.
MMA
Mixed martial arts (often abbreviated as MMA) is a full-contact combat sport whose rules allow the use of both striking techniques (i.e., kicks, punches, elbow, and knee strikes) and grappling techniques (such as throws, joint locks, and chokes). An MMA competition begins with stand-up fighting and can then continue on the ground. Athletes can win by points, by KO, or by submission (i.e., forcing the opponent to surrender through a joint lock or choke). Special "open-fingered" gloves are worn, allowing competitors to grip the opponent to apply grappling techniques.
FULL CONTACT
Born in the United States in the 1970s under the original name of full contact karate, it is a sport derived from karate in which, unlike the fights of the latter and the “point karate” and “semi-contact” variants, full contact (in English) is allowed from the black belt up. The discipline was invented by the American champion Joe Lewis together with a selected group of masters eager to test the real effectiveness of the various techniques of traditional martial arts combined with boxing punches.
SAVATE
Savate (also known as French boxing) is a sport that originated in the poorest neighborhoods of Marseille and Paris in the early nineteenth century as a form of street fighting. It was later modified by French aristocrats, who turned it into their own form of self-defense. Initially, techniques could only be performed with the feet, but hand slaps were introduced in 1820, and by 1830, competitors began using boxing gloves. Unlike other ring sports, where fighters compete barefoot, savate is fought in flat shoes with reinforced soles and toes. An opponent can be struck anywhere except the back of the head and the groin.
KARATE
Karate is a martial art that originated in Japan, on the islands of Okinawa. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called te (lit. "hand") and Chinese kenpō . It involves unarmed defense, without the use of weapons, although the practice of Okinawan Kobudo, which involves the use of traditional weapons (Bo, Tonfa, Sai, Nunchaku, Kama), is closely linked to the practice of karate. Currently, it is practiced in a sporting version (stripped of its martial component and aimed at the competitive results typical of Western sports) and in a traditional martial art version for self-defense.
Depending on the various styles of karate, karate consists of numerous techniques: punches, kicks (mainly to the legs and torso), elbows, knee strikes, and open-hand strikes to sensitive areas of the human body (femur, joints, liver, throat, floating ribs) are used in order to cause anatomical trauma that neutralizes the opponent in the fastest and most effective way possible, following the rule of "minimum effort, maximum result". All these techniques are accompanied by a set of blocks, dodges, movements, and slips designed to deflect and intercept attacks, as well as throws, sweeps, locks, and joint locks. However, one should not think of Judo or Aikido. Karate throws and sweeps do not involve "throwing" the opponent far away (as in Aikido) but rather "breaking them down" on their center, on the ground, to prevent them from counterattacking and then finishing them with striking techniques. Karate, moreover, is primarily a striking art, although its study encompasses all possibilities of combat.
JUDO
Judo is a martial art, a combat sport and a Japanese method of self-defense formally established in Japan with the founding of the Kōdōkan by Professor Kanō Jigorō, in 1882. Practitioners of this discipline are called judoists or more commonly judoka. According to Professor Kanō's teaching method, Kōdōkan judo fundamentally consists of practicing combat technique and the theoretical study developed from the principle of "yawara".
“Yawara means adapting to the opponent's force in order to gain full control. For example: if I am attacked by an opponent who pushes me with a certain force, I must not resist it, but initially I must adapt to his action and, by making use of his very force, draw him towards me, causing his body to bend forward [...] The theory applies to any direction in which the opponent exerts force.”
Judo offers a rich repertoire of combat techniques. These techniques include the application of the yawara principle (not only in the context of passive elasticity understood in the Buddhist sense, but also as an active principle of counterattack), they elucidate the principles of attack-defense proper to the Kanō method and demonstrate their effectiveness both in real combat and in sports competition.
fit box
Fitboxing is a fitness training method – designed to optimize overall physical fitness – developed in a boxing or kickboxing style. It is very often accompanied by music tracks with a motivational purpose or to set the pace of the punches. Fitboxing is not considered a combat sport and there are no opponents; punches are delivered exclusively against a special punching bag or against the gloves of a training partner – at the coach's discretion and depending on the type of workout. Fitboxing improves most aspects of muscular fitness, in addition to increasing endurance and muscle flexibility thanks to its mixed aerobic and anaerobic characteristics. It also allows you to train the communication between mind and body: thus reducing the time needed to think of a movement, process it, and transmit the impulse.
