Kathy Long's Championship Kickboxing
1990s workout video aimed at teaching people basic kickboxing
In the 90s as a young man I was a big fan of five time kickboxing champion Kathy Long not just because of her in ring performance but for her appearances in some of the best worst movies out there. Including a movie called Knights where a post apocalyptic Earth was ruled by cyborg vampires. Here's a taste:
Anyway Long was so physically dominant in her sport that there was great interest in her training program and techniques. I haven’t talked about fitness in a while so I wanted to start including more material on the subject. This video straddles both fitness and self defense giving viewers a exercise program they can follow alone or in pairs (with minimal equipment) that also helps develop some very practical self defense skills like how to throw combinations.
Workouts like this that focus on developing practical skills are great for people with limited time for training as many are people nowadays. For women in particular these kinds of workouts help develop key self defense skills for other types of training.
Kickboxing has fallen out of favor with the rise in popularity of MMA and with that the legacy of fighters like Long have been all but forgotten.