Boxe pieds-poings

Women who are fighting in Burmese boxing or in Thai boxing

Boxe pieds-poings (French: feet-fists boxing) is a French term encompassing several variants of kickboxing.

These combat sports are practiced in a ring (or on a mat) and belong to the category of sport boxing. The combatants use combinations of leg and knee kicks, punches , elbow strikes) and throws.

Among the best known are:

the American disciplines (American boxing) under three main forms:
- full contact karate without kicks below the belt,
- kickboxing with roundhouse kicks in the thighs or American kickboxing,
- and semicontact or fights in the points (point fighting), a class of karate with gloves and slippers in foam,
French boxing (savate), today called "savate-BF"
Japanese kickboxing: kickboxing with direct knee kicks, low roundhouse kicks to the thighs, and with a few wrestling holds,
two kinds of boxing, where almost everything is permitted, Burmese boxing (lethwei) and Thai boxing (muay thai).

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