Kicking types and dynamics

The flying roundhouse kick is one I have used but mostly with my rear leg... I picked that up from a TKD instructor before I started in TKD. I didn't pick up alot of kicking in Shotokan, the instructor I was under really was anti kicking for the most part.

 

I took up shotokan primaraly to improve my kicking, my personal favorites are low level stuff to the knees,thigh, groin and stomach. Although I do like to put the odd roundhouse into the solar plexus.

Thanx

 

Sickle Kick

In Lau Gar we have an unusual kick that I haven't seen elsewhere!

It chambers like a normal front kick, only pointing away from the target. The kick strikes outward with the side of the foot, and with the foot in an upward position. Then it returns to the chamber position. A bit like a crescent kick, that changes it's mind halfway through.

Anybody else got something similar?

 

not something I have trained but I did something like that on accident once lol it worked though

Rob

 

Andy - was it not also nicknamed 'through the heart kick' as this was it's intended target?

 

Our kicks tend to be much more circular, returning naturally into their original chamber at the end of the kick or at least into some similar chamber. We also at no point lock out the knee, so the foot almost always describes some form of circle.

 

Andy wrote:
"...an unusual kick that I haven't seen elsewhere!...
...A bit like a crescent kick, that changes it's mind halfway through. Anybody else got something similar?..."


Sounds like one that Hapkido also employs. I forget the number (I want to say 12, but that could have been axe kick), it was referred to informally as a 'push' kick.

paul

 

Unusual kicks? Lemme see...

Twisting kick (bring the knee up across the body then twist the leg back round in the opposite direction, not as hard as it sounds but weird-looking)
Heel front kick (normal front kick, but a higher chamber followed by a stamping type motion to the front, aimed at the chest and through)
Outwards crescent kick (think of a crescent kick, but going the other way and hitting with the outside of the foot instead of the inside)

 

Wing chun kicks are nice (close and personal)

 

What are your views on using kiagi(snap) and kokomi(thrust) kicks. Also what do you all think about the difference in training for competition kicks(using the instep) as opposed to 'real' kicks (ball of the foot). Do you find any change in speed/power?

Thanx