3 Disciplines of Ring Sport
3 Disciplines in Ring
- Full Contact
- Low Kick
- K-1
Full Contact (sometimes referred to as American Kickboxing)
- All strikes are above the waist
- Must have 6 Kicks per round
- You can do boot to boot sweeps
- No clinching
- No Knees
- If you do not get your kicks in, you must make them up in the following round or you will be penalized
Low Kick
- You can strike anywhere from the knee above
- You can strike both inside and outside of the knee
- No linear kicks to the thigh from the knee to the hip
- No spinning back fist
- No Knees
- No Clinching
K-1
- The entire body is a legal target (No Groin)
- No Linear Kicks to the leg from knee to the hip
- 3 Second clinch for the purpose of 1 knee only
- More than 1 knee in the clinch is strictly prohibited
- You can do spinning backfist
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