Related Matrial Arts

[mastergooch27]

What are the best martial arts styles that relate somewhat or fully to boxing? Ive been interested in taking up one and want everyone's thoughts on whats best and REALISTIC. Thanks fellas...

[GutShot]

errr.... kickboxing?

[AdamGB]

Tai Kwando is good, its very practical and the stance is similar to boxing's.

[Scrap]

Most fighting arts can be incorparated, one that doesnt get a mention and should and its the same posture is Judo

[GutShot]

funny lol, i was competing at judo during my early teens at the regional level (southern england comps), i'm nearly a senior purple at taekwondo too

[AdamGB]

My best mate's dad competed in it... got gold medals and shit at world level. Did a few classes with him but I'd already started boxing otherwise I would probably still be doing it

Love to fight and most martial arts classes don't train and spar the way you do when you box... addicted to it

[GutShot]

hence the art side

i love sparring but i'm glad there is more focus on technique...

[fungabhai]

how about kickboxing, thai boxing, kyokushin karate, san shou/san da/ chinese kickboxing

[AdamGB]

Isn't chinese kick boxing another name for Kung fu?

I did this really weird shit when I learned Kung fu... some crazy goth with clip on sun glasses offered my a pill... red or blue... I took one and starting going on a trip... the mirror turned into liquid metal and went down my throat and when I woke up I found that I was actually plugged into a giant battery powering giant computers with super smart AI...

I went down this big wet and wild water slide and this giant hovercraft picked me up... I woke up there and they stuck a big spike in my head and told me I was in the matrix... then some tech kid pulled out a floppy disc and downloaded all known martial arts into my brain... I beat up some agent guy and then learned how to fly...

Fucking Warner brothers stole my experiences and made a film out of it... didn't see a penny for it... bastards!

[Scrap]

I never new that cc

[lightweight132]

What are the best martial arts styles that relate somewhat or fully to boxing? Ive been interested in taking up one and want everyone's thoughts on whats best and REALISTIC. Thanks fellas...

i say all because boxing teaches you to keep your feet balanced whether youre throwing kicks or punches you need good balance

[Von Milash]

I started started a similar thread in the MMA forum and got some great feedback. As a result, I joined a boxing gym, started studying and practising muay thai kicks on my heavy bag and am anxiously awaiting a supposedly great book on judo for beginners.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/477...Fencoding=UTF8

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxing_fo...c,31285.0.html

[GutShot]

books, dvd's... you cannot learn from these as you would with one-to-one tuition.

Save your money and join a proper school... being a lounge warrior is a bad idea as you could be going very very wrong (likely) and not know about it.

[X]

I was an amateur boxer for 12 years, then went into TaeKwonDo for 6 years.

There are quite a few martial arts similar to boxing, MUay Thai has many similar moves, but I would have thought that you want to do a martial art that is DIFFERENT from boxing.

The styles will then complement each other by compensating for the inherent weaknesses in the other. That's why I chose TKD for example (it is more of an upright stance, obviously more kicking, less infighting, the rhythm is different.)

Once I feel that I got good capability in TKD, and by that I mean at least a 1st Dan, I would like to take up something like Wing Chun (very close quarters, short straight line actions, multiple offensive actions with one move) I am not the largest person in the world, and Wing Chun is a compact style.

Some real expers (ie Bruce Lee) did a simplar thing, and incorporated all their earning of different techniques into a new style (his was Jeet Kune Do) but I am certainly not in anything approaching near that class.

[Von Milash]

books, dvd's... you cannot learn from these as you would with one-to-one tuition.

Save your money and join a proper school... being a lounge warrior is a bad idea as you could be going very very wrong (likely) and not know about it.

THanks--and understood. I'm just interested in learning a few basics. That's why I JOINED a boxing gym. Beyond that, let's face it...there's nothing to Muay Thai that you can't learn from a book or by watching. Anyone can kick a thigh... and with 28years of competitive hockey under my belt, I know how to thrown one hell of an elbow.