Hip Pain During Side Line Kicks Causes and Explanation

Today I would like to talk about injuries during kicking. If there were no injuries, a lot more people would have enjoyed their martial arts practices.

There are several reasons for injuries and here are the main ones.
  • Lack of Proper Range of Motion
  • Lack of Proper Conditioning
  • Insufficient Warm Up
  • Incorrect Technique
  • Not enough recovery time between sessions
Beside these, there are many others such as mental stress, lack of proper nutrients, lack of sleep, congenital weakness (such as hernia), etc. Today we will address the first one.

PROPER RANGE OF MOTION DURING KICKING

There are many instances under which a martial artist can get injured in respect to lacking proper range of motion for a given kick or group of kicks.

We've all been there. Taking time off from training. Then coming back to training, expecting our body to have the same range of motion that we left with. This is often not the case.

In some cases, even time off from training can be compensated for with long, careful and thought out warm up. Such as the ones presented in ESKMS (ElasticSteel Kick Mastery System)

While many muscles can be effected, in this video I'm talking specifically about the Upper Adductors/ Inner Hip Flexors. This area is a common site of injury.

To extend a side kick (Or back kick, or hook kick, etc) these muscles must stretch. Not only so, they must contract toward the end of the kick, do decelerate the kick and pull it back. The higher the kick, the more they are stretched. (Please see the supine abduction test in the video above.)

There is one method of training the kick that is particularly dangerous and prone to injury.

There is one method of training the kick that is particularly dangerous and prone to injury. That is kicking at full speed without hitting a target.

When striking a target, the leg does not extend all the way or if it does the target helps to decelerate the kick. This helps the muscles in question and protects them.

When doing slow kick without a target, the muscles may not extend all the way and the kick will simply lack last few degrees of extension. If however the kick is forced to extend all the way, the lower back will curve and compensate. (This can place the strain on the lower back, but that's another issue)

However, when the kick is thrown at full speed without a target, the lower back usually won't hyperextend. The reason for this is because gluteus maximus will be activated as an extensor of the hip. Contraction of this muscle, keeps the back hyperextension in check and if anything, flattens the back. This puts all the hip deceleration stress on the muscles in question. (In ESKMS level 1 Online Kicking Seminar, we spend a lot of time developing and adjusting the core/hip relationship specific to kicking techniques.)

In conclusion, just because you can do a slow kick and have full range of motion, does not mean that you can now try to kick at full speed. Take the test, while on your back as shown in the video.

Ideally developing the kicking leg should take place even before a single kick is thrown. However that’s not possible for most people. Everyone who lands on this page, has already thrown kicks.

HOW TO UNDERSTAND YOUR KICKING LEG

To understand the kicking leg, think of a barbell push jerk. That’s when you hold the barbell on your upper chest, in standing position. You use a short leg push to accelerate the bar up and extend the arms over your head.

The little leg jerk is done because the arms are not strong enough to press the weight with assistance. The arms, in this case, is the kicking leg. Would you try to do a push jerk or even a basic shoulder press, if you can’t lift your arms all the way up to vertical position, because you lack shoulder mobility? Of course you would not.

What if your shoulder was not strong enough to even hold your arms there, would you add additional weight? Of course not. And yet people kick without having proper range of motion or strength.

There is no way a proper technique can ever be developed. Never an optimum power, or speed or accuracy. Why? Because your body is more concerned about you not getting injured, than about “mastering” the skill.

REQUIREMENTS FOR A PROPER SIDE KICK

A proper side kick performing leg, requires flexibility in the muscles that prevent abduction (lifting the leg to the side) and prevent medial rotation. (Abduction and medial rotation is what your kicking leg is doing, during side line kicks.) While the medial rotators and adductors need to be strong.

But, not just generally strong. They must be strong in short range. (Short range is where muscle is completely flexed) Also strong hip and knee flexors (to have a good chamber). A beginner who starts kicking, can’t possibly have this.

Unless it’s a new generation of beginners, who now train with various certified instructors in ElasticSteel method.

DO YOU NEED ELASTICSTEEL KICKING PROGRAM?

I am going to take an educated guess and say that 95 percent of people need it. If you never used this program, you probably need it. I have met and trained with many good kickers and they all needed this program.

Not a single one had all 3 factors that this program works on, fully developed:
  • Full active chamber (without hand assistance) and neutral back.
  • 35 degrees active medial rotation of the hip.
  • Active Extended kick with 45 degree hip abduction and horizontal foot position.
And the other factors pointing to the necessity of this program, is that every single person who tried it even 2 rounds for the first time (All 4 levels), was sore the next day. If muscles are already used to producing force in these ranges, they would not be sore, after a quick run through the exercises.

I am looking forward to meeting people who can do this program and not be aching the next day. I would be very interested to know how they train. So far haven’t met even one.

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Or... Do you Prefer the Standard Method..?

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If you want SPEED, You MUST train a sequence that develops SPEED!

If you want KICKING HEIGHT, You MUST train a progression that develops KICKING HEIGHT, etc, etc.

The worst thing you can do is.... “just keep kicking"

I know people who have been “just kicking” for 2 years,

and I also know those with 30 years of "just kicking" experience under their belt.

NEITHER have developed any top-level qualities in their kicks.

(By quality I mean; speed, power, height, focus, control, etc)

However, after I showed them how to train for a specific quality of a kick, it took them just weeks.

YOU READ THAT RIGHT, just weeks to improve their kicks like they could not do in years.

Extremely Fast Progress- One Quality At a Time

My Program STANDS BEHIND What it Does,

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Only Then Can it Be Mastered Quickly Then Please Read On....

Now briefly, I will tell you who I am and what I do.

(If you already are familiar with ElasticSteel and me, Paul Zaichik, skip this part)

I am a life long martial artist. (36 years in martial arts, in 2022).

My education is in Kinesiology. I have been studying, researching and teaching kinesiology for 23 years.
As you can imagine, my main areas of study were and still are:
  • Biomechanics
  • Motor Learning
  • Exercise Physiology
  • Human Movement
I have always applied much of my research to Martial Arts.

That is why, when I look at the mastery of kicking techniques, a completely different point of view is seen in my mind, compared to most people.

So, when you get this Kick combo, you will get the following:

Very Short and to the point and very easy to understand and follow routines for basic kicks. The quality improvement is focused on the following kicks:
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  • Side Kick
  • Hook Kick
  • Axe Kick
Each routine designed for quick mastery of a kick and a chosen quality. Example:
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  • power of a front kick
  • height of a side kick, etc.
Especially selected exercises that have been carefully chosen from many already very effective and rare exercises, to achieve the fastest results. (Again, each one for a specific quality or a specific kick)

Routines to master advanced kicks as well. (Flying side kick, Scorpion Kick, Flying Side Kick, Flying Two Direction Scissors kick).

But if you don’t know anything about me, you probably find all this too good to be true. If I have trained the same way for years, without any results, I would definitely be skeptical of some “new method” I just discovered.

Can this really help me?
I hope you are skeptical. The more skeptical you are the more you will enjoy the results. And more likely you will tell your friends about them. That’s how word of the mouth works. From people who are pleasantly surprised by the results…

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2- Side Kick: Trunk Flexibility and Strength for Optimum Kicking
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4- Side Kick: Precision and Accuracy
5- Side Kick: Speed Development
6- Side Kick: Power Development
7- Side Kick: Neutralizing Opponents Defense and Guard Penetration Set Ups

The Roundhouse and Hook Kicks one contain 4 programs:

1- Roundhouse Kick: Technical Kicking Leg Development
2- Roundhouse Kick: Speed Development
3- Roundhouse Kick: Power Development
4- Hook Kick: Power Development

Front Kick Training includes 5 programs

1- Front Kick and Front Line Kicks: Technical Kicking Leg Development
2- Front Kick: Speed Development
3- Push Front Kick: Power Development
4- Axe Kick: Power Development
5- Ball of the Foot: Point of Impact

Advance Kick Training includes 5 programs:

1- Scorpion Kick: Perfect form Development
2- Flying Side Kick: Technique and Jumping Height Development
3- Flying Split Scissors Kick, Two Direction Kick
4- Twist Kick Technical Kicking Leg Development
5- Twist Kick Follow Along Routine

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This is how most people do something,
“not with two legs and two arms doing the same movement” – real life is not a gym.

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These are the costs if purchased individually:
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Summarizing What You Are Getting:
  • Side Kick Training (7 programs)
  • 1- Technical Kicking Leg Development
  • 2- Trunk Flexibility and Strength for Optimum Kicking
  • 3- Supporting Leg Training For Kicking Height
  • 4- Precision and Accuracy
  • 5- Speed Development
  • 6- Power Development
  • 7- Neutralizing Opponents Defense and Guard Penetration Set Ups

  • Roundhouse and Hook Kicks Training (4 programs)
  • 1- Roundhouse Kick: Technical Kicking Leg Development
  • 2- Roundhouse Kick: Speed Development
  • 3- Roundhouse Kick: Power Development
  • 4- Hook Kick: Power Development


  • Front Kick Training (5 programs)
  • 1- Front Kick and Front Line Kicks: Technical Kicking Leg Development
  • 2- Front Kick: Speed Development
  • 3- Push Front Kick: Power Development
  • 4- Axe Kick: Power Development
  • 5- Ball of the Foot: Point of Impact

  • Advance Kick Training (4 programs)
  • 1- Twist Kick Technical Kicking Leg Development
  • 2- Flying Side Kick: Technique and Jumping Height Development
  • 3- Scorpion Kick: Perfect form Development
  • 4- Flying Split Scissors Kick, Two Direction Kick

  • Kick Retention Training
  • A specific video focusing on functional kick training.

  • Three Classic ElasticSteel Functional Strength And Conditioning Books
  • 1- The Gravity Advantage
  • 2- The Gravity Advantage Max
  • 3- The Power of One

  • Two Extra Programs for Hand Conditioning
  • 1- Fist Point of Impact: Wrist, Knuckles and Forearm Development
  • 2- Palm Strike Strength and Flexibility Training
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They work like magic”?
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{I need to think about...}
this incredible
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YOU MAY ALSO BE INTERESTED IN:

Adductors Strength & Flexibility
This program contains: 
Adductors are four muscles whose primary role is hip adduction. Adduction is pulling the limb toward the mid-line of the body.

Additionally some texts list Pectineus as an adductor. There are a number of other muscles that also adduct the leg. Most of those muscles are external rotators of the hip. Since most applications of abduction have a superimposed lateral rotation, additional adductors do not restrict abduction or horizontal abduction. The exception are medial hamstrings, which are internal rotators of the hip.
Complete Shoulder Flexion
This program contains: 
Being able to stretch the shoulder abductors and extensors, as well as scapula inferior rotators allows the arm to come up to at least vertical line. In many cases more than 180 degree is needed, in throwing sports for example, such as javelin, football and baseball. Same applied to serves in volleyball and rocket sports.
Hamstrings Advanced Level
This programs contains:
The Advanced Hamstrings routine is for those of you who are familiar with the Zaichik Stretching techniques and can comfortably implement the routine. It takes things up a notch by introducing muscle contraction in addition to muscle action for an even more intense workout.

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