Why kickboxing?

Why do I say we train kickboxing, here at Furious Styles? The answer is simple. In my most humble opinion, I believe that "kickboxing" is the general term to cover all styles; be it K1, showtime, Thai Rules, Tomoi.

Initially, we used the term "Muay Thai". This is because we have always been training and practising Muay Thai. I learned from Kru Antonio and later Kru AJ. In 2010, we were trained intensively by Kru Raja Ahmad Talmizi and Kru Azman Abdul (of the Sitkrumat, the Naga Api and the Persatuan Tomoi Gombak Muay Thai Camps, respectively) and are entrusted to share Muay Thai knowledge to anyone who's keen. All we could learn about Muay Thai and how to guide people into training it, we learnt from these two great men. God bless them always.

However, lately we have been receiving static and friction from some members of the Muay Thai community in Malaysia (not all, but just from a few distinguished gentlemen). To prevent conflict and to avoid creating enemies. we believe its best to use the term kickboxing from now on.Since we use the term "kickboxing", it means the "distinguished gentlemen" who think they own Muay Thai in Malaysia have no locus to criticise us.

But, for the record and for all the world to know, I'm putting it down in this blog ; we're all still Nak Muay, regardless of our club's name. We stand by and support Sitkrumat, Naga Api and Persatuan Tomoi Gombak in spreading and sharing what we know about kickboxing (Thai rules). Some people and clubs may put us down in the FaceBook, or talk badly about us, without having even met us or see us train. To these people, check this out, the more you talk smack about us, the more people will come and seek us out. You train eight limbs, we train eight limbs.

In addition to the above, another reason why we use the term "kickboxing", is because our team registered with the WKN, the World Kickboxing Network. To date, our team is the only team in Malaysian Borneo, that is registered with the WKN.

Thank you very much to the World Kickboxing Network for accepting our registration