And 'widespread opinion that kickboxing is born in the USA. In fact, Americans have innovated and launched a discipline whose origins are in the Land of the Rising Sun.
In fact, the Sixties Japanese, having suffered a defeat outstanding work of Thai Bangkok ring on the muay thai (kicks, punches, ginocchiate and gomitate), decided to launch a new discipline that would enable them to bridge the technical gap with Thai . They a new method of fighting in which athletes, dressed like thaiboxers (shorts, bare feet and torso), is faced with fists, kicked (on the whole body, including legs) and ginocchiate, but go to clinch. Virtually the cunning "yellow" to thaiboxe had lifted its peculiarities (clinch and gomitate) to adapt the new sport to their needs. And he called kickboxing.
From'64 on, the kickboxing experienced a growing success, but with no outlet.
The Thai did not accept changes to their national sport. The Americans moved the first steps in karate and taekwondo in particular, so they were not interested. The search was thus directed to the old continent, in particular to France that pullulava of karateka, judoka and savateur. So in April 1969 the French Christian savateur Guillaume champion of France, departed with other compatriots to challenge the Japanese. The chronicle of time records of the performances Giullaume so bright, in comparison to all other Europeans defeated, that it back in November of that year for a tour.
Guillaume says in his memoirs that it is not never been defeated and that it had reported only a draw, while his opponents increased weight to every meeting and gloves weighing about 4 ounces. After the French meteor seventies saw the great champions remain Japanese boat, it was the epoch dell'invitto Fujiwara and his legendary master Kurosaki.
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