10 Kickboxing Tips

Kickboxing is a sport that is well known and well loved, however, anyone who wants to learn this special fighting style will need to know the 10 kickboxing tips.  Kickboxing requires its participants to understand and utilize an excellent fighting stance in combination with footwork and effective strikes.  In fact, if these aspects of this fighting style are not utilized in harmony, the kickboxer will hardly be at their best and will be essentially opening themselves up for defeat in competition.  The following 10 kickboxing tips that we will cover will encompass the main guiding principles and tips of maintaining a kickboxing fighting stance.    

1. Learn how to stand properly. However, remember proper and good stances will differ from person to person.
2. Begin finding your personal ‘proper’ stance through relaxing the body.
3. Proper relaxation of the body will promote fluid reaction and reaction time in offensive and defensive moves.
4. Keep the strikes you may make in combat or in sparring accurate, powerful and fast.
5. Remember foot placement and weight distribution when in stance. With the best foot placement and accompanying weight distribution, relaxing the body in stance and operating more fluidly in stance will be much more easily accomplished.
6. Understand the typical orthodox fighting stance in kickboxing. This stance is for the majority of right-handed combatants and these individuals will hold their right arm to their right.
7. Left foot lead, placement for the right handed fighters. These individuals will want to place the right foot at a forty-five degree angle at the back when in proper stance. 
8. With the right handed stance, the hip is square, or parallel, to the front and eighty percent of body weight should be supported by the lead front leg. 
9. The chin should be tucked in to the point of touching the neck base and eyes should be straight on the opponent. Not to mention, fists should be clenched in a light manner, held up with palms-in position.
10. For left handed combatants, this stance we have discussed will simply be turned around to the opposite directions, but weight distribution, eye contact and all other stance aspects will remain unchanged.