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More information on Low-Kick can be found on the official W.A.K.O. website. [5] Both men and women had competitions at Agadir, with the men having twelve weight divisions ranging from 51 kg /112.2 lbs to over 91 kg /+200.2 lbs and the women having seven ranging from 48 kg /105.6 lbs to over 70 kg /+143 lbs .
More detail on Low-Kick rules can be found at the official W.A.K.O. website. [ 7 ] At Belgrade the men's Low-Kick competition had twelve six weight classes starting at light bantamweight (51 kg or 112.2 lb) to super heavyweight (over 91 kg or 200.2 lb), while the women's had six ranging from featherweight (52 kg or 114.4 lb) to super ...
A teenager Low Kick kickboxing match. International rules, or freestyle kickboxing (also known as Low Kick in the United States), contrast with full contact rules in that it also allows low kicks. The male kickboxers are bare-chested, wearing kickboxing trousers or shorts and protective gear, including mouth-guard, hand wraps, Boxing gloves ...
A low kick (also known as a leg kick) is a kick in which the attacker strikes the opponent's lower body (thigh or calf) with the shinbone or foot. Under different names, such kicks are utilized in numerous martial arts, including as karate, taekwondo, kūdō, kickboxing, pradal serey, lethwei, Muay Thai, MMA, and various styles of kung fu.
More information on Light-Contact rules can be found of the W.A.K.O. website, although be aware that the rules may have changed since 1996. [9] Similar to Semi-Contact the men had eight weight divisions ranging from 57 kg /125.4 lbs to over 89 kg /+195.8 lbs while the women had five ranging from 50 kg /110 lbs to over 65 kg /143 lbs .
The event was open to amateur men and women from across Europe (with Iran rather unusually participating at a Euro championships) and there were seven styles available; Full Contact, Low-Kick (men only), Thai-Boxing (men only), Light-Contact, Semi-Contact, Musical Forms and Aero-Kickboxing (making its W.A.K.O. debut). Each country was allowed ...
The men's welterweight (67 kg/147.4 lbs) Low-Kick category at the W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Belgrade was the sixth lightest of the male Low-Kick tournaments, involving seventeen fighters from two continents (Europe and Asia). Each of the matches was three rounds of two minutes each and were fought under Low-Kick rules.
By the turn-of-the-twentieth-century, the organization began introducing two different world championships every two years - one typically covering forms of kickboxing such as full-contact, semi-contact and musical forms, while the other types such as Thai-boxing, low-kick kickboxing and later K-1 rules.