AFAA Kickboxing: Skills and Drills

The AFAA Kickboxing: Skills and Drills is intended to provide instruction and guidelines for teaching a group exercise class using movements and activities that mimic punches, blocks, and kicks from the martial arts, boxing, and kickboxing. This outline is not intended to provide instruction in self-defense.

Learn the skills needed to teach safe, effective, and fun kickboxing classes in this online course. These workouts are a combination of boxing, kickboxing, and martial arts movements along with traditional aerobic skills.

The course includes:

• Online course materials
• Downloadable worksheet
• Online supporting video
• Final online exam

Course Content:

The movements and techniques have been modified to serve the purpose of providing a cardiovascular workout, while maintaining body alignment that is safe for the general population. The movements and techniques taught in this outline and in the workshop should not be considered to be effective for self-defense. Readers of this outline and participants of the workshop should not consider themselves trained in self-defense.

Key Concepts in the course include:

• Review of Anatomical Planes of Motion
• Injury prevention
• Common punch errors
• Common kick errors
• Exercise evaluation using the AFAA 5 Questions
• Wrapping techniques
• Class formats / Drills

Exam Format:

• Online multiple choice exam
• 15 questions
• 3 attempts at the exam
• 70% passing score
• 365 days to complete

Remarks: All online material can only be accessed using desktop or laptop computer. iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone or Android devices are not supported.