Can you get  a black belt in kickboxing?
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No. There are no belts indicating levels in kickboxing. Once you step into the ring, there are only amateurs or professionals, weight classes, and winners or losers. Of course, some trophies are shaped like belts.
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Running is good and so is kick boxing
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My training is similar to yours.  I train BJJ, Muay Thai, and Boxing.  I also have a strong background in wrestling, having done it for over 6 years and having coached it for a short time.  Right now I'm not near any schools, as I work on a Navy base in Italy.  There are a couple of guys here with different backgrounds and we spar together, teaching each other what we can.  When I get back to the states I'm going back to my BJJ school, and looking for a muay thai gym if I can find one.\n\nI think you're training now is ideal for MMA.  Boxing and muay thai have awesome footwork and striking techniques. Combine that with the comfort muay thai fighters have in the clinch and the ground fighting prowess of BJJ and you have a very well rounded fighter.  All that's missing is the takedown ablility of wrestling or judo.  I've trained with many higher ranked (in belt)BJJ practitioners, and I've always had them off the takedown.  They eventually improve their position and get me with a submission, but that will change in time.\n\nI don't completely agree with your view on Kung Fu, though.  It's true that there aren't many MMA champions with Kung Fu backgrounds, but I don't think that is because of the stye.  I think it's more because of the training.\n\nKung Fu, traditionally, was a mixed martial art form.  The chinese brought together various famous fighters to study their styles and techniques and to develop strong fighters for battle.  It's techniques are effective and it has potential for MMA  Presently, though, I don't think Kung Fu is practiced in a way that builds great fighters. Especially in the US.  It has become more of a forms based martial art and the practitioners don't spar enough, if at all.  It's possible for a Kung Fu fighter to study for years and have less ring time than a Muay Thai boxer would get in his first few months at a gym.
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What do you mean by "better"? \nNeed to defend yourself and want to have skills for all possible scenarios?\nThen what you need would be something like Kajukenbo:\nKA (from a Korean style of karate) JU (from judo and jujitsu) KEN (From kenpo) BO(from Chinese boxing, kung fu) \nThis style has developed a reputation as "the perfected art of dirty streetfighting" \nThe second factor of the kajukenbo philosophy is the notion of taking what works and not being afraid to try other martial arts styles. \nYou learn to do anything it takes to win. \nEven if you have to bite, scratch, and kick, there are no rules. You have to fight like an animal if necessary.
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It is because you need to train your body to instinctivly move in new ways. There is alot to learn and this takes time.\nMartial arts is a life long ambition. A black belt doesn't mean you're a master and are done. It maens that you understand enough of the basics that you can start to develope your own inner style from what is taught. A black belt is really just the beginning.\nNot all Dojo's are money sucking businesses. Our Dojo won't test someone unless they are ready. We do not want to fail someone and take their money. We promote according to skill level and understanding, not on how many classes they have taken, and we only charge by the month, not by contracts.\nI teach in my Dojo for free. I help anyone who asks for no charge. If you're Dojo is set up like a gym membership than get out, Don't give up.
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I didn't know they had black boxing clubs. If you box, I don't think they will have a problem having you there.
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i do kyokushin, not kickboxing, but close enough.  in competition i like to pick a spot on my opponent and go to work on it.  last time i just kept kicking the guy's inner thigh and after a little while he dropped.\n\n just be more aggressive than your opponent.  set up kicks with punches.  throw a combo of 2 or 3 punches and then kick as he's backing up.
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KICKS Tae Kwan Do and Kick Boxing has awesome facilities. It is located at 17100 Van Buren Blvd. I have a friend who started going there and has made huge progress in his techniques and physique! Check out their website.
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Tae Kwon Do  \n\nIf you train hard enough and are flexible the kicking Tae Kwon Do offers is what your looking for. Koreans are world renowned for their kicking both in Tae Kwon Do and Hap Ki Do\nTae Kwon Do has fast kicks made for striking and point sparring don't get me wrong kicks in Tae Kwon Do have power but are designed for speed and Hap Ki Do has kicks made for power and but also has speed and are devastating
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My mom has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.  It is a hard martial art to master.  Some of the katas are really complicated.  She's broken ribs and toes during sparring.
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You can't learn from Yahoo Answers how to do kicks correctly. You got to go out and find a good school and have a instructor teach you.  Get a clue killer.
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First, a black belt is really not the top rank, it is in the middle. A black belt learns certain moves in their system of training and reaches a certain level of competence and maturity. In our school they also have to show confidence, a humble, respectful attitude and show that they have a good enough grasp of the style to be able to "graph" their own moves. It takes three to five years, depending on their commitment level, how often they attend classes, and whether they utilize other learning opportunities. For instance, we do not usually push tournaments, but attending tournaments does help you learn by exposing you to different fighting styles.\n\nWe also give three different levels of black belts. A child can get a "black belt" in a few years, but will have to retest for his adult black belt no sooner than age 16. A junior belt is usually given to a child 12-16, again they will continue training and get an adult belt when ready. It takes an adult longer to earn a black belt than it does a child, because more is expected from them.
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I guess Van Damme.\n\nEx world kickboxing champions tend to be quite hard.
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martial arts, Karate or Tae Kwon Do.  Both require the above + flexibility.  I do karate and other martial arts and not being arrogant but: \ni do have a lot of cardiovascular endurance (partly because i do my own fitness training at home and at the gym) - \n\nmuscular endurance ?YES!!! repetition of 100's of techniques in concession (eg. pyramid kicking/ punching etc.)this can also be done at the gym - \n\nmuscular strength YES being able to hold a kick or position your body in a certai nway requires great muscular strength - i also do isometrics and other strength exercises , yet again most can be done at gym.  \n\nFINALLY, being a martial artist, high kicks are not compulsary to be able to perform but if you follow a good flexibility/ stretching routine they will be no problem. splits and other such things are not essential but personally serve as a bench mark of flexibility ...(just somethingto measure by)\n\nhope this helps you\ngood luck with whatever you pursue\n\nL
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No but I'd love to try it someday. It seems really challenging. Queen Latifah actually stays in shape kickboxing. She said it's really hard but that it's a great workout and is the only thing she's found that really keeps her in shape and that she enjoys doing. I've also thought about boxing. Jill Marie Jones from "Girlfriends" boxes and she also said it was hard. Both women really seemed to enjoy the fact that they could tackle this form of exercise and become good at it. And it seems like more and more women are getting into these kinds of activities more and more so that's inspiring to me as I've become more interested in trying it. Also Jessica Biel got in great shape with boxing as a part of her fitness regimine for the movie Blade:Trinity. I got a chance to see what her workout was like on the double-disc unrated DVD. Ultimately kickboxing seems like it could make you feel empowered, strong, and tough.
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Try TS,MJ-Multimedia...\nSome kind of kickboxing vcd include WWE,whereby the wrestlers fight with each others in different events,with different types of competitons like tag,singles.The wrestlers fight against different components to win the victory belt.
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Kajukenbo:\nThe Perfected Art of Dirty Streetfighting\nby William Beaver\n\nOriginally an article in Karate/Kung Fu Illustrated (February 1992)\n\nThe streets of Pacifica, California, where Bob Maschmeier, a high-ranking kajukenbo instructor teaches, are far from the rough and tough ghetto where the art began. Five martial artists, calling themselves the Black Belt Society met in the Palama Settlement on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. They came together in 1947 with only one purpose: tokki.jpg (32761 bytes) perfect a martial arts system which would allow to survive any streetfight situation.\n\nPeter Y.Y. Choo brought his expertise in the Korean art tang soo do. Frank Ordonez contributed years of experience in se keino jujitsu. Clarence Chang was a teacher of shaolin kung fu. And the fifth member of the black belt society, a master of Chinese kara-ho kempo and Filipino escrima was Adriano Emperado.\n\nAfter two years of exchanging ideas and techniques, these five martial artists created a street-wise, highly effective combat system which derived its name from the first letters of the styles that comprised it.\n\nKA (from a Korean style of karate) JU (from judo and jujitsu) KEN (From kenpo) BO(from Chinese boxing, kung fu)\n\nSince then this now-familiar style had developed a reputation as "the perfected art of dirty streetfighting," as Sigung Maschmeier likes to call it.\n\nEmperado, the man now generally recognized as the founder, had a rugged childhood in the rough and tumble back streets of Honolulu. His initial martial arts training was in escrima, which later influenced aspects of kajukenbo. Emperado later took up kempo and reached the rank of fifth-degree black belt while studying under William K.S. Chow.\n\nThe first kajukenbo school was opened in the Palama Settlement, and operated by Emperado, and his brother Joe. The brutal training that took place there is legendary. Since the goal was to be invincible on the street, the training had to be realistic, and students sparred with full contact. Broken bones were an everyday occurence, and the trauma of training caused some to become sick to their stomachs. The number of students in the school soon dwindled to a dedicated few.\n\nThose who remained developed into tough fighters with a reputation for employing their art in streetfights with very little provocation. Emperado's school turned out several future instructors who would themselves leave a mark on the international martial arts community, including Sid Asuncion, Tony Ramos, Charles Gaylord, Aleju Reyes, Al Dacascos, and Joe Halbuna, just to name a few.\n\nMaschmeier, a direct student of Halbuna, teaches kajukenbo with a two-part philosophy: teach students to survive a streetfight, and encourage them to explore other martial arts, looking for techniques which will make them better fighters. The emphasis on survival is primary in kajukenbo, and in Maschmeier's Coast Karate Studios.\n\n"Anyone can learn to kick and punch, but to teach them how to survive in a violent street situation, you have to develop their animal instinct," says Maschmeier.\n\nThe animal instinct is described as a feeling, one which Maschmeier conjures up for himself by imagining someone trying to injure one of his children.\n\n"If you put together the martial artist's knowledge of vital targets, how to strike, and the concentration of power combined with anger and rage at the thought of someone hurting your loved ones, the person can be a devastating fighting machine."\n\nMaschmeier points out that, at least in his school, he teaches the junior students differently than the adults. Children are still taught self-defense techniques, but the training to bring out the animal instinct is not emphasized.\n\nThe second factor of the kajukenbo philosophy is the notion of taking what works and not being afraid to try other martial arts styles.\n\n"I tell my students that I try to open doors for them, teaching