r/Kickboxing

I’ve been training kickboxing for about 4 months now, twice a week, and my coach has said I’m ready to start sparring. To be honest, now it’s actually happening I’m feeling a lot more nervous than I expected.

Has anyone got any advice for a first spar? Anything I should focus on, avoid, or wish you’d known before your first time? Any tips would be really appreciated.

Hello, I started training about 4 months ago, and have had a painful problem with my hips/ hip flexors. So I initially started getting symptoms after kicking with bad form, also propably due to overloading my hip flexors and muscles all around them. Since then I have been focusing more on stretching and proper form.

The pain isn't as bad as it used to be, when I first got these painfull symptoms I couldn't lift my legs at all / move them around much at all. The pain got more intense when I lifted my knee above my hip.

Now I can kick and do all sort of stuff, but I still feel a kind of stiffness/soreness and pain especially when moving legs around, sometimes I hear popping and it's more or less painful.

I wonder if this is a common injury and what I should do to heal, is it strenghtening or more stretching? So far I haven't found stretching to be all that relieving but I still do a longer session of stretching when I'm about to do kicking.

TLDR; Hip flexor pain when kicking and lifting knees above hips, was wondering if anyone has ever dealt with this problem before and how to possibly advance in my situation before I contact a physio. Thanks <3

First i wanna say sorry for posting this in this community but i’m so upset i don’t care at this point.

So basically i’m in a relationship with a girl and i love her a lot we talked about if we ever were in relationships before she told me she had been with a guy once for a month because he was mentally ill and just cussing out at her she told me she had never gone out with him but i just found a picture of her in his shoulder and him hugging her and i don’t know i haven’t ever been this jealous and mad before i felt my entire body just heat up, however i found the pic in saved in her friend’s chat (the picture was 5 months ago) she told me not to get in her account because she has a picture where her chest is a bit revealed, i just suspected that she had a picture with a guy because i don’t give a damn fuck to look at another girl’s tits, but yeah i made a mistake by doing something she told me not to but i suspected a lot and saw a picture that fucked up my feelings, i don’t know how to confront her i don’t know what to say, if she had told me and not lied to me that she has hanged out with him before i would mind but i’m mad that she lied at me and still didn’t delete the photo. If someone could give me
advice on what to do please tell me i am very upset.

(We are together since 2 months)

Is light continuous slightly harder than semi contact or is it other way around ?

Basically the title, I have a sparring partner thats very reminiscent of someone like mvp, they stay at range, throw kicks of all kinds hook kicks spinning kicks to the head and body, side kicks, front kicks to stop me entering in etc. its incredibly frustrating. How can I counter a style like this?

https://reddit.com/link/1un5slc/video/i5gwmep7y6bh1/player

Hi guys, it's me again, I hope yall are doing great! Last Wednesday we did sparing (one at the center and that guy was sparing the rest of the line of people after you were done with all, someone else takes your place) now, the thing is that one guy is quite aggressive and strikes quite hard (I been told the same by others) and the issue is that he managed to give me a quite hard headshot to the back of my head in between my ear and my neck, which shuk my skull and made me dizzy for like 15 mins or so (I had to sit down against a wall) the same guy also gave me a hook to the nuts in a previous sparring session, now, I do not think he is doing it on porpuse cuz he is 15 and probably doesn't control himself well enough, my question is if after telling him to slow down he is basically doing the same, do you guys think I should warn the coach? This thinking came after I mentioned this sequence to a friend of mine who used to be a boxer and he got quite worried cuz apparently doing this kind of thing is forbidden and quite dangerous, he told me that I should at least let the coach know so she can have an eye on him, I don't want to be that guy and I don't really mind getting hit, it's the place combined with the strength of those hits that concerns me. Take into account that I didn't have any issues what so ever with anybody else, bigger, smaller, taller, shorter, you name it, npx but him... 2 incidents in 3 weeks, idk, what would you guys do?

Just started doing traditional kickboxing a couple of months ago and I have been really focused on training. Couple of weeks ago, was sparring with low oz gloves and got a clean hit on my ribs, they started hurting the day after and I did ab workouts and full kickboxing workouts with pain but very bearable. But the pain is constant and isnt going away, i can breathe just fine without pain though so i guess its not the worst injury. I dont know if I should rest or keep training and im worried its going to take too long to heal to a point where I can train again. Any advice on whether i should train? What to do to heal faster?

It just feels terrible to have JUST started and already having to bench myself from exercising, i was just building muscle memory for proper technique and stuff.

This question is more for those who understand the fundamentals. In boxing, the jab is the most important punch. It measures distance, keeps your opponent at bay, sets up other punches, and is the key to winning.

In kickboxing, what's the equivalent? Is it the lead teep? Or is the jab still the most important strike? I'd like to hear thoughts from coaches, trainers, and anyone knowledgeable who may have come from a boxing background and transitioned into kickboxing/muay thai.

from my experience, in kickboxing, it matters more. a bigger dude managed to take me out with just a hard teep to the belly.

Hi everyone!
I’m 16 years old and I’ve been training kickboxing seriously, but I’m struggling with something that’s really holding me back.
Technically, I think I’m pretty decent. I do well on pads and during drills, but as soon as I step into the ring for sparring, I completely freeze. I tense up, and it feels like all of my technique disappears. None of my combinations work, I can’t defend properly or move away, and I usually end up backed into the corner, covering up and just waiting for the round to end. I also can’t seem to start my own attacks.
This has been going on for about four months now. Even light technical sparring hasn’t helped. I genuinely love this sport and want to improve, but this mental block is really frustrating.
Has anyone experienced something similar? How did you overcome the fear of getting hit or freezing during sparring? I’d really appreciate any advice.
Thanks in advance.