Boxing vs Taekwondo (standing only) This doesn’t seem fair…

Sometimes a lesson must be learned over and over. This is a good lesson in what works and what doesn’t.

Granted, the Taekwondo practitioners weren’t at a high level, but the boxers were taking it easy on them.

Boxing vs Taekwondo:

Boxing requires a much higher level of conditioning and also has real sparring, where you hit full contact. In boxing, you are going to get beat up every session. So, you get used to it.

Boxing is a martial art and combat sport in which two people throw punches at each other, usually with gloved hands.

Historically, the goals have been to weaken and knock down the opponent.

While people have fought in hand-to-hand combat since before the dawn of history, the origin of boxing as an organized sport may be its acceptance by the ancient Greeks as an Olympic game in BC 688.

In general, boxers are prohibited from hitting below the belt, holding, tripping, pushing, biting, or spitting. The boxer’s shorts are raised so the opponent is not allowed to hit to the groin area with intent to cause pain or injury. Failure to abide by the former may result in a foul.

They also are prohibited from kicking, head-butting, or hitting with any part of the arm other than the knuckles of a closed fist (including hitting with the elbow, shoulder or forearm, as well as with open gloves, the wrist, the inside, back or side of the hand).

Taekwondo is characterized by its emphasis on head-height kicks, jumping and spinning kicks, and fast kicking techniques.

In fact, World Taekwondo Federation sparring competitions award additional points for strikes that incorporate jumping and spinning kicks.

Boxing vs Taekwondo

To facilitate fast, turning kicks, taekwondo generally adopts stances that are narrower and hence less-stable than the broader, wide stances used by martial arts such as karate.

The tradeoff of decreased stability is believed to be worth the commensurate increase in agility, particularly in Kukkiwon-style taekwondo.