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I have gotten back into kickboxing since my club reopened after being closed due to the pandemic. I have stuck to just training but would like to compete soon. In competitions, your opponent's gender is random, so I could fight a guy or a girl. I have no way of knowing until the day of the competition. I don't wear a cup when I'm training because it is uncomfortable and restricts my range of motion, especially with kicks. However, I have seen a few competitive fights recently where it's a guy fighting a girl and I have occasionally seen the girls try to kick the guy's groin in the middle of their fight. So now I'm worried because if I end up facing a girl and I'm not wearing a cup, she could land a hit to my balls and win the fight. But if I do wear the cup, I won't be able to be as nimble or be able to kick as far, so she could still beat me. I haven't fought girls before so I don't know how they think during fights. So here are my questions for you to get insight:
1) Girls, if you were fighting a guy and you knew he wasn't wearing a cup, would you go for his balls to win?
2) If you did, how hard would you do it? Full strength or just enough to weaken him?
3) If you managed to land a hit to his groin but he didn't go down, would you move on to something else or just kick him again until he goes down?
4) If he was wearing a cup, would that change how you fought him?
Every answer helps.