Modern Kick-Boxing is a combination of western hand techniques and kicks from the arsenal of traditional Karate, Tae-Kwon-Do and Mauy Thai. Other kick-boxing styles, such as full-blooded Mauy Thai, in which the fighters employ knees and elbows as legitimate techniques, co-exist alongside the more common WKA competition.
During the mid 70's various American Tournament Karate practitioners become frustrated with the limitations of the then rather primitive competition scoring systems. They wanted to find a system with which they could apply kicks and punches to the knockout. Full Contact Karate was born.
McAllister Kick-Boxing is as the name suggests, predominantly kick-boxing but students are also taught techniques from Karate, Thai Boxing and Street Self Defence.
The Chief Instructor, Jim McAllister, has combined his knowledge of various Martial Arts together with his 30 years of training into one unique fighting system “McAllister Kick-Boxing”.
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Many laymen are under the impression that modern day Kick-Boxing originated in Thailand, Japan or elsewhere in the Far East. In fact, the real origins of the sport are revealed by the name which it is known Full Contact Karate.