Kickboxing is a nice sport. Nice way to learn to get hit. Good way to get in a good healty condition. But is a sport. And sports have rules. As a beginner you do 3 rounds of 2 minutes. As you move on the rounds get longer and you have to fight more rounds. You also have to use gloves.

In my opinion the gloves make it almost impossible to use proper technique. The multiround system causes it to be a condition competition. It is a good way to fight each other. But is has nothing to do with a real fight in the street.

On the street a fight longer than 4 seconds is rare. By training a martial art you learn principles and strategy. You will learn to use these principles in life also. Try reading Sun Tzu to learn strategy.

im was just thinking that kickboxing would be good when mixed with other martial arts, because im in tae-kwon-doe right now 2nd dan

2nd dan? tae-kwon-do is a great martial art. some ppl say it is more of a sport, like kickboxing. but it is definitly not true. tae-kwon-do SPARRING is the sport of tae-kwon-do. but tae-kwon-do itself teaches u self-defense and how to fight on the street. does ur master also teach hapkido? a lot of tae-kwon-do masters also teach hapkido, like my master. all of our grab defences r from hapkido. i dont think tae-kwon-do ,by itself, has any grab defences. but tae-kwon-do sparring is a lot different from kickboxing to. its a lot better i will add. and it will help u build a lot of stamina which is good for real fighting, or if u need to run away! but tae-kwon-do is a great art

zen man..i like wut u said..and yeah
Martial Arts Is great..Kickboxing is good..
safer than boxing too..it has all sorts
of martial arts styles and stuff..
TKD is a great art..but very young..
but the korean arts will rise to the greats!