Mr. Low Kick
Rob Kaman
The Dutch low-kick template in its original form. Hands to lift the guard, leg taken from beneath, repeated without deviation.
Rob Kaman was the Dutch fighter who established the low kick as the national weapon before Hoost perfected it, and the nickname was earned literally. Fighting out of Mejiro Gym in the 1980s, he built a record on leg attacks so damaging that opponents changed their gameplans before the bell.
He was also one of the few Europeans of his era willing to fight in Thailand under Thai conditions, which gave the Dutch style credibility it would otherwise have taken another decade to earn. Those bouts are part of why the Netherlands-Thailand rivalry became the sport's defining stylistic axis.
For anyone studying the Dutch method, Kaman is the earliest clear example of the full pattern: hands thrown specifically to move the guard upward, then the leg taken from underneath, repeated with no interest in variety for its own sake.