With regards to my background, and you saying that I am more KICKBOXING - using this term almost as a slur by a Purist to a person of lower standing ( W.T.F.!).

Many people like myself who have backgrounds in Muaythai chose to have their fighters compete in K-1 style Kickboxing bouts. Some chose to have their fighters compete in M.M.A. Mixed Martial Arts bouts.

This does not make their knowledge of Muaythai less than would be found in a gym that regards itself as a purist muaythai camp.

If anything, people who expand there knowledge into other area’s actually know more than you can imagine, and can benefit their students greatly with additional skills.

There are plenty of Thai gyms for example, that have fighters with better punching skills than those from particular camps….. because they cross train with Boxing.

I was very fortunate to train with, and be instructor certified - 20 years ago, by Grand Master Sken, one of the U.K.’s leading authorities on Thai martial art systems, learning Muay-Boran methods as well as Muaythai. What I was taught, is the core of what I teach, and my Instructors teach, on a daily basis.

So….

K-1 style Kickboxing rules
K-1 Style Kickboxing
K-1 Kickboxing
K-1

One person says “Pavement” another says “Sidewalk“. However one would not tell the other that they are wrong, as has been happening on this thread.


Good luck with "K-1" fight in Japan!