More Than Just A Fight: No Ropes And No Where To Hide.
You know, I used to think I was pretty handy at looking after myself. I’m a brown belt in karate, and I take my black belt grading later this year. I know I’m not Superman, but I’d like to think I could handle myself if I got into a scrape. Then I went to a mixed martial arts contest and saw these guys do san shou kickboxing, and I felt like giving up there and then. These guys are phenomenal!
In case you don’t know, this is kickboxing taken to the next level: seriously, these guys know no fear! I have a buddy who practices Muay Thai, and I told him about what I saw, and he said that he’d be wary about taking on someone that’s been trained in san shou. If you can imagine taking all the best bits of Chinese freestyle fighting, so you can use kicks, punches, throws, you name it, then times it by ten, and you might be getting close.
So, like I said, I was knocked out (no pun intended!) by what the san shou fighters could do, so I decided to do a little digging. And what I found out just blew me away no wonder I was impressed at the show. This particular martial art has...