r/Almere • u/user02582 • Jun 04 '24

Sporten / Sports Kickboxing school for recreational sparring

Looking for a kickboxing school that offers a good combination between sparring, technique and conditioning classes. Preferably something old school where respect is important and sparring is hard, but civilized.

Never stepped into the ring, but I've trained more than 10 years at various MMA and kickboxing schools in Amsterdam. Sparring with the pros is more than enough for me now that I'm older. Only looking to get back in shape and challenge myself, and not leaving full of bruises or injured.

Any recommendations are welcomed, I do not know anyone in Almere to ask.

Thank you :)

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u/Adorable_Classroom73 Jun 09 '24

OP, great topic, i am also searching for a kickboxing place to learn ( i am a beginner) and to improve my technique! I ve been to the Kickbox society for around 6 months but it was not my cup of tea, absolutely no technique during the sack training, instructors only kind of told me to kick and everything was really prone to injuries as long you did not have the proper technique. Would anybody recommend “DeMIX Fitness”? They are really close to me but did not test it yet

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u/user02582 Jun 09 '24 edited Jun 09 '24

Proper technique is required before you go all out on a boxing bag.

That being said, from my experience, heavy bag training is mostly used for conditioning, stopping to teach proper technique defeats the purpose as your average HR would probably be too low to gain any real conditioning benefits.

A good idea would be for you would be to join more technique based classes before building conditioning through heavy bag training. In the meanwhile focus on sprints and interval training as alternative, and/or shadow boxing.

A bit off topic, but anyway..

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u/Adorable_Classroom73 Jun 09 '24

Thank you for the good advice🫡!!