Styles
IKF sanctions both professional and amateur kickboxing around the world in six different rule styles:
- American kickboxing: above the waist
- International ruleset: leg kick
- Muay Thai: allowing knees and elbows
- Sanshou: all of the above along with Throws
- Extreme Gladiators (or XG Kickboxing): all of the above along with throws & MMA gloves
- Point Kickboxing: semi-contact
The IKF has both male and female titles (State, Regional, National, Continental, Intercontinental and World) and both Pro and Amateur rankings.
Read more about this topic: International Kickboxing Federation
Famous quotes containing the word styles:
“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
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—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)