The boxes is a Sport of combat which is practiced with against one, while resorting to strike percussion, using gloves. By extension, many disciplines took the name of boxing: “sporting boxings” modern like the Boxings foot-fists (B.P.P) with regulation Western and “boxings martial” as the boxes Chinese (kung fu), the Burmese Boxe (lethwei) and the Boxe inhabitant of Thailand (muaythaï) inter alia.

Various boxings

Boxing knows many alternatives. These alternatives are defined by their body “targets”, the allowed body “weapons” and the techniques of projection.

Targets to be reached

  • face and bust in the English Boxing,
  • face, bust and legs in the slipper French Boxing, the Kickboxing, the Burmese Boxing and the Boxing Thai
  • all parts of the body except the throat, the spinal column and the genitals in the free Combat or Freefight

Weapons

The means implemented to reach these targets are defined by body the “weapons” used: In opposition to the English Boxing, the Burmese Boxing, the French Boxing and the Boxe Thai belong to the category known as of the “Boxes foot-fists”.

Principal boxings

There exist several types of boxings:
  • the English Boxing or boxes Olympic (B.A)
  • the Burmese Boxe or Lethwei (B.B), superlative of the Boxes foot-fists where all the blows are allowed. It is practiced in a way more sporting in Occident and called since 1959, Bando kickboxing (B.K.B)
  • the French Boxe (or Savate), today " slipper-BF" (B.F)
  • Chinese boxing (precisely the San da in competition), improperly called Kung fu (B.C)
  • the American Kick-boxing (K.B) and the Japanese Kick-boxing (Eastern rules)
  • the American Boxing (also Full-contact karate (F.C), boxes foot-fists or all the blows are carried above the belt
  • the Boxe Thai or Thai Muay (B.T).
  • the free Combat or Freefight (F.F) which mixes Grappling and Boxes foot-fists.
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