I lost my left eye during a childhood accident but are intressted in the martialarts. I have done TKD and also boxing for a while, but stopped due to the fact I wasn´t allowed to compete in boxing with only one eye.
Do anyone have experience of doing martialarts with only one eye? I´m a bit worried about the risk of injuring my good eye, in boxing there are a lot of strikes to the head that feel a bit risky for me. I know there are headgears that protect the eyes well, but still I don´t know if even with a headgear you could risk a detached retina if you got hard blows to the head?
So basically I´m looking for a sport that are effective selfdefence but also "safe" when it comes to eyeinjuries. I´m thinking of thaiboxing or kyokushin karate because I like the stand up arts. Kyokushin have no strikes to the head, but don´t know if it´s just as good as thaiboxing for selfdefence? Or if kyokushin is just like TKD with lowkicks added?
Do anyone have experience of doing martialarts with only one eye? I´m a bit worried about the risk of injuring my good eye, in boxing there are a lot of strikes to the head that feel a bit risky for me. I know there are headgears that protect the eyes well, but still I don´t know if even with a headgear you could risk a detached retina if you got hard blows to the head?
So basically I´m looking for a sport that are effective selfdefence but also "safe" when it comes to eyeinjuries. I´m thinking of thaiboxing or kyokushin karate because I like the stand up arts. Kyokushin have no strikes to the head, but don´t know if it´s just as good as thaiboxing for selfdefence? Or if kyokushin is just like TKD with lowkicks added?
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