Look, I'm not saying that kickboxers lack power, but the power that they have is very surface.
Sif Rouge hasnt hit the nail on the head.
The problem with kickboxers is there power is all physical and based purely on commen sence physics and body mechanics.
Never once do you see a kickboxer stand there looking vacant for five minutes trying to collect himself before letting out a splitting scream and attacking a piece of wood being held static by a student.
Its really obvious that no kickboxer has any real power, if they did they wouldnt compete they would simply meditate and tell others of the path to true enlightenment.
Liokault
Your friend was quite obviously poorly trained and had no idea of the true martial way of avoiding any and all hard physical contact!
He should go back in there and learn to play patty cake patty cake like all the normal martial artists.
Pfffft... Kickboxers!
They kick and they box... ohhhh im so scared!!!
Up and down, forward and backward, left and right, its all the same. All of this is done with the mind, not externaly.
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Shaped dragon and looking monkey, sitting tiger and turning eagle.
"I wonder how they would do against jon's no-tension fu. I bet they'd do REALLY WELL."
- Huang Kai Vun