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kick boxing

  • 11-09-2006 4:56pm
    #1
    james70
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Hey does anybody know anywhere you can get good kickboxing classes
    in around blanchstown clonsilla i have never done this before and would like to start from the beginning....



    James


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  • #2
    yomchi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    Jimmy Upton teaches in Total Fitness in CAstleknock. I think you have to be a member though


  • #3
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    Describe good kickboxing please.


  • #4
    OctavarIan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    Nothingcompares wrote:
    Describe good kickboxing please.

    He was looking for good classes methinks.

    Sorry OP i can't help you on that one. I'm not familiar with the blanch/clonsilla area. There is a good class run in Celbridge, although it's a bit out of your way!


  • #5
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    What?

    Is he looking for Semi contact? Light contact? Full contact? Places with belt systems? Places without belt systems? Stuff that are like Kempo and TKD? Places that are like Full Contact Karate? Places that are like Muay Thai?


  • #6
    Morse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Morse


    Nothingcompares wrote:
    What?

    Is he looking for Semi contact? Light contact? Full contact? Places with belt systems? Places without belt systems? Stuff that are like Kempo and TKD? Places that are like Full Contact Karate? Places that are like Muay Thai?


    He said "good kickboxing", Jimmy Upton provides just that and he's in the Blanch area. Although he's based in Total Fitness out there I'm pretty sure he's got other groups training in the local.

    OP, I hope this answer's your question. If you want I can get you Jimmy's phone number, however you might be quicker ringing Total Fitness and getting his number through them.


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  • #7
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    Am I the only one that find's the term "good kickboxing" a little bit inspecific?


  • #8
    yomchi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    Yes, the guys obviously a beginner.


  • #9
    Morse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Morse


    Jon wrote:
    Yes, the guys obviously a beginner.

    Is that because the OP said he wanted to start at the beginning?.

    He was specific about the location he wants to train, and Jimmy Upton run's an excellent kickboxing club in that area.


  • #10
    Dylan Scally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭Dylan Scally


    jimmy uptons class is on a thursday at 8pm at a community hall main st castle knock near mynos pub. he isn't in total fitness any more. pm me for the number.


  • #11
    Roper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,448 ✭✭✭Roper


    Nothingcompares wrote:
    Am I the only one that find's the term "good kickboxing" a little bit inspecific?
    Yeah but now you're just picking.


    Jimmy Upton is a good kickboxing coach and a good boxer too from what people tell me.


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  • #12
    Millionaire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,248 ✭✭✭Millionaire


    Yeah Jimmy Upton is good, and trained for boxing few years back too.

    saw him fight.... he is good.

    Kickboxing= what is trained for full contact style fighting. continous and 50 - 70% contact with lots of sparring. anything else is not kickboxing is "sport karate"


  • #13
    james70
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭james70


    Hey you are right I'm a complete begininer and know very little about the sport its just something ive always wanted to do


  • #14
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    What? I'm not trying to say Kickboxing is crap I'm just wondering what the hell the oringal poster is looking for. If I started a thread saying I want to learn good karate and start at the beginning I may be looking for shotokan or I may be looking for kyokushin, both Karate, both can be good karate (depending on your goals) and both are extremely different in training methods. I'm completely lost and am not posting again on this thread :mad:


  • #15
    Morse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Morse


    Nothingcompares wrote:
    What? I'm not trying to say Kickboxing is crap I'm just wondering what the hell the oringal poster is looking for. If I started a thread saying I want to learn good karate and start at the beginning I may be looking for shotokan or I may be looking for kyokushin, both Karate, both can be good karate (depending on your goals) and both are extremely different in training methods. I'm completely lost and am not posting again on this thread :mad:


    You seem to be losing the rag alittle bit when its not needed. No one is here to contradict you. But the OP is new to the board and to martial arts and his first post here hasn't really been very helpfull (to him/her) 'nor very welcoming either.

    A little saying I learned (and later used) in the army year's ago was "There's no such thing as a stupid question from a recruit, only stupid answer's from his instructors". I try to apply it to most questions from beginners in anything.

    'Happy thoughts ;)


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