Flying sidekick: 6 Common mistakes and Corrections
Master the Flying Side Kick with our guide on common mistakes across all levels - beginner to advanced. Learn how to identify and correct these errors for a flawless execution.
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Is Axe Kick a powerful kick. Does it make sense to learn it?
Well, the Axe Kick, just like any other kick, a punch, a throw, etc., depends primarily on properly developed biomechanical chain where the power builds from one joint to another, from one muscle to another, with each one accelerating the...
Mastering the Art of High Kicks: Effective Cueing Techniques for Engaging the Supporting Leg
Master the art of kicking with our guide on hip movement, pelvis alignment, and supporting leg strength. Perfect your technique across styles, ensuring effective cueing without constant reminders. Our program focuses on strengthening, lengthening, and conditioning. Elevate your kicks now!
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Is Hook Kick training really worth it? Isn't it one of the weaker kicks?
So sometimes there's an opening that is perfect for a hook kick that you can't get to with a roundhouse. You can't get it with a sidekick, you can't get it with an Axe Kick, but it's perfect for a hook kick. If you are there just to score a point, you might get a point. If you're there to knock someone down or out you might use a hook kick to successfully start your attack and then finish with whatever other techniques that you want.
Sidekick speed. The most difficult kick in speed to attain. Why?
Oftentimes people would throw a kick with more speed when there is a target than when there is no target. And this is done subconsciously, possibly not even at the level of the brain, but at the level of the peripheral nervous system where the body understands what will happen if it throws a very fast kick without a target at the end of that kick.
Side Kick: Kicking leg training. Not for the height, but for injury prevention.
While it is true that the height of all three sideline kicks, the side kick, the hook and the roundhouse kick depends on the supporting leg. When it comes to the kicking leg, as many of the people that have been watching ElasticSteel videos and reading ElasticSteel articles, understand that it abducts to about 45 degrees. Any more than that and you need the flexibility of the supporting leg. And that is exactly the point. Having the strength in the abductors of the kicking leg is how you prevent injury of the hip.
Sidekick kicking torso position. Should your body always be up when throwing a sidekick?
Having a strong and flexible torso when throwing a sidekick is a great tool to have! It gives you more things to play with, than a kicker who doesn't have that ability. You have more options. You could do more things with your sidekick.
Side Kick - Perpendicular balance drill
Regardless of which Martial Arts style you practice. If you have a good sidekick form, this drill will enable you to have a very strong, stable sidekick. Although the drill itself does not build power directly, it helps quite a lot with the technique. And stability comes, of course, from the supporting leg. And while it looks like you're moving the kicking leg, there's going to be a lot of stability work in the supporting leg, supporting foot and the whole body.
