Boxing is good for self-defense because it teaches you how to block an attacker and fight them if necessary. Boxing also improves fitness, strengthens motor skills and mentally prepares you for a fight. However, people often learn another martial art so they can also fight on the ground if required.
Without the training and conditioning that boxers and martial artists go through to strengthen their punches, the average person has a much lower PSI. Most individuals’ average punching power falls between 60-170 PSI, with outliers on both ends of that range.
Dirty boxing is when a fighter throws short punches from the clinch position while holding the opponent’s back of the head to gain a tactical advantage. It’s called “dirty boxing” to describe a set of unorthodox boxing techniques in combat sports, which can be on the borderline of being illegal.
The term “Sweet Science” is used to describe how technical boxing is, although boxers only use their hands. Boxing teaches how to be in a tactical advantage position and read the opponent’s moves in advance by preparing with counter moves. Boxing is all about the scientific approach to combat.
At first sight, Karate and Taekwondo may look the same to many people due to similar uniforms and belts. It’s really easy to mix these two striking martial arts with one another, which a lot of people do. Still, when you set them against each other, these two arts actually differ in many aspects. Whether it’s a place of origin, emphasis, or rules of competition, they actually don’t share much in common.
Yet Boxing has started to decline while the UFC happens to be on the rise. In fact, UFC has not only seen a rise in viewership across every major demographic…but they have even gotten over numerous different divisions and even female fighting.