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Originally Posted by chiuchimu
^ My couch told me that long time ago, Muay Thai allowed groin kicks and headbutts too. The groin kick wasn't that effective in the ring because Thai boxers at that time( I don't know if they still do) used steel groin cups. These cups had ridged reinforcements. Full power kick to a cup like that would be painful for the kicker. you can still buy the steel cups but I doubt professionals use them. Why would anyone want one of those steel ones when there are the new high tech plastic ones that can disperse the shock.
On ,sparing. My Shotokan Sensei was a bit odd. Most Dojos practice their techiniques by the book: low deep mountain climbing stance, fist cocked at waist. etc.. But when time to spare, all correct forms are thrown out the window and everyone looks like they are kick boxing: doing the boxers shuffle, hands high, throwing jabs etc... My dojo, we spared as we did practice and Katas. Our sparing sessions were to look just like our Katas. I'm not sure if that was an effective way to spare, but boy did we look great doing it that way.
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I assume you meant the chamber position when you said "Fist cokced at waist". It really depend on the type of sparring you do, we do some fix drills where we do use all the technique straing from the kata, the blocks usus a standard shikodachi, and all technique are properly executed as though we are doing the katas. THere are 2 form of this type of sparring for us: Kakomi Kumite and Renzuku Kumite. WHere when we do free sparring, we turn into that kickboxing form as you pointed out. We did the same thing when i was in TKD, TKD has something call 2 step or 3 step sparring, where we use kata based technique to fight, its fixed drills,but as soon as we spar, everyone turn into a kick boxer. My only complain with TKD is that, the sensei taught us all kind of kicks, but he failed to mention that some kick are totally useless because kicking a person is different from kicking a bag: People move, the block, and they fight back. THats why I am more in love with Karate now, because, i think what my sensei teaches make sense, of course, i got the added edge as my kicks are very different from everyone else thanks to TKD