Tom I am currently trainning fighting style, called KFM. KFM teaches how to punch, kick, stomp, elbow, knee, grapple, tear, gouge, bite and how to survive the concept behind KFM is instincts.
Ive been training KFM for about a year now; first thing i noticed is that the thinking man has been built into my insticts, for example if one of my friends is messing a around and throws something at me aslong as its coming towards my head I will put up my guard up. Its a very effective block when dealing with multiple opponent.
Boxing is another fighting style, considering I first posted this thread with a method of conditioning my body, and people have just told me to box confuses me. However let me set the record straight. Boxing is a great way to train punches, no doubt if I went to a boxing coach It would dramatically improve my punches and my fitness.
I also know if i ever find myself up against a boxer in a ring 1v1 he would be beat me(depending on his level obviously). But where I live i doubt i'm going to find anyone up for a fair fight in a ring.
Where you may have thought i was saying boxing is an ineffective fighting style. I was saying its an ineffective fighting style for me. Earlier i mentioned that KFM is based on instincts, I think KFM so effective because it trains techniques that are already instinctive; For example the kancataura (sorry my spanish spelling isn't top knotch) is based of the playground headlock, if you watch kids fight majoritivley they will resort to headlocks.
I don't want to change my instincts by boxing aswell as training KFM, its taken me about half a year to get the block down and im only just working body mechanics with my urban weapons and regular fighting.
The way it changes your instincts is by repeatative training, like every other fighting style it builds in your muscle memory (
Muscle memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), this is why i wouldn't train boxing. In my previous post i mentioned 'some europian countries boxing champ' training in our class, I felt the power of his punches cause i was pad feeding him and he was going easy on me. Now because he had boxed for a long time, his boxing stance was built into his muscle memory so when my instructor came over and explained one of our drills he found it difficult because he had boxing instincts not crappy human ones :P