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- Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do sidekick.
You asked for it and here it is.
Now, sidekick is one of the most powerful
kicking techniques in the art of JKD.
The reason for it is because your using your
whole body weight going towards the opponent.
You watch the Enter the Dragon,
you watch the Return of Dragon from Bruce's movie,
how he sends someone flying with the sidekick,
is one of Bruce Lee's signature kicks.
It's also one of the most difficult kicks to master
and I'll explain why and also what are some of the body
mechanics that you need to be aware of today.
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So first let me just show you, how do you do that.
Now there are actually three types of sidekicks in JKD.
Let me show you the most powerful one first
and then I'll show you the other two,
is less powerful, but I believe it's actually more
practical and more applicable to what we wanna do.
So with the sidekick, you can see
to generate power, you want to have your full
body going towards the target.
So as Shin is holding a pad, something like this,
you probably don't want to kick here,
you wanna kick somewhere the energy like that.
Now, obviously, it's not like when we are fighting
or sparring, you're gonna fly and jump in
and do all of that, but it's a good way to practice,
see if you can kick with power.
Just full power, overkill motion,
exaggerate so you can send someone flying
and have all your body weight.
You're learning to transfer your
body weight to the target.
Later on, when you're better, you're not gonna jump
from here and do all of that, you'll be probably
from here, it's more like that kind of motion,
but for now it's okay, you're learning to do that.
So here's a technique.
From here you will take your rear foot,
cross behind, cross behind.
You don't cross in front.
Sometimes you do it here, but for now,
just learn it behind.
From here, you notice my heel, it's up, okay?
Notice my heel is up, you can see that,
heel is up.
So as I jumped, this goes in, imagine,
so Jack, join me so you can see.
Jack has got three years of Tai boxing experience,
but sidekick is new to you, right?
You do it with the shin kick.
So it's fun kicking those,
but this is new, which is perfect,
'cause then I can also show you how it's done properly.
So try that, Jack, from here,
yeah, and then you lift this up.
Imagine almost your knee wanna touch your chest.
Just do this motion first.
So just for now, all I want you to do is this.
Yeah, try that again.
Don't kick, yeah, just like that.
Try that.
So you wanna practice this a lot.
So if I'm looking the camera,
I'm facing you, right,
you'll see here, see how this lift?
It's this high, this high.
So it would look something like this,
from here, just like that, see?
See my body?
Like that, try that.
Okay, try that.
Yeah.
Then after you this, this,
then when you extend the foot,
from here, you put all your energy.
It's like imagine making a circle.
Boom, like that.
So from here, boom, see that?
See my body?
It's contract and then expand.
So it is not push.
It's not a push.
That's wrong.
It's contract and bam, expand.
Exaggerated, right?
Whoo, bam.
The energy.
And you let all the energy, your weight, going forward.
Right?
Going forward.
So imagine it's a ball, you contract,
and boom, explode, right?
Try that.
- So just kick all the way in?
- Yeah, all the way in.
Give it, I say 30, 40% power,
forget about power first.
Yes.
Try again.
Yeah.
Yeah, slow down.
Take your time, take your time.
Shh, take your time.
Yeah, try again.
And make sure when you're kicking,
it's the heel of your foot.
The heel of your foot, you're driving in,
so you're driving in, so not here,
the heel.
Nice.
Try that again.
Not bad.
Your partner, who's holding the shield,
don't hold it in, jus let it relax and let it go.
Ideally, if you can time your weight,
sometimes you cannot always hit it that bang on,
but if you time your weight as you this,
drop, it hits at the same time.
So, as this, drop, this hits at the same time.
'Cause then you'll let your body weight
hit at the same time, right?
So maybe lower.
Better?
That's a good one.
So as a partner, you can tell, mmm, that one was good
or that one wasn't good, right?
Try a couple more.
- [Ishin] Better.
- Yeah, that's good, so he can feel that.
And now, when you extend your leg,
imagine you're kicking through the guy, okay?
Not just, forget this part,
imagine you're actually kicking this part.
And then you just relax, right, relax, boom, right?
Relax, right.
Just relax.
And look at my motion, it's not very (crashing).
It's like water, right?
It's like imagine throwing a bucket of water,
like that.
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Good, better.
Relax a little more.
That's better.
That one's pretty good.
Yeah, make sure, jump.
- Okay.
- Now widen the lens a bit,
let me show you how much distance you could cover.
Can you see me okay?
Okay, so watch.
So how far, you can see from the movie,
see how far?
Almost four steps, right?
So imagine I'm here, this far,
I take a step forward.
From here, see how much distance he covers?
From here, how much distance he could cover.
That's why this is the power,
you think with that far he can't touch me,
but actually, I'm there already.
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One more time.
- Right here?
- Yup.
It's a little bit harder for accuracy, right?
- Yeah.
- Try that again.
Better, one more.
Good.
So that's the first with the jump step, sidekick.
Now, the second sidekick that you could do,
which is more practical, once you get used to this,
the power, the bow and mechanic,
you learn how to use the hip.
Now, we wanna do it from a closer distance.
Now this sidekick, we're not doing this.
We're simply lifting and kicking at the same time.
So look at my hip motion, right?
So I'm lifting and I'm kicking at the same time,
at the same time I'm turning the ball of my foot.
The ball of my foot, see that?
See that.
Okay, so I'm here, like that.
So from here, like that.
Now why is it so good?
This could be a, you're doing your technique, right,
from here, you can just kick,
or as he's coming forward, you can just stop,
it's like a stop kick.
So up, boom, just like that.
Right, just boom, like that.
Try that.
- So just lift and kick, right?
- Yeah, it's lift and then
do it. - Do the sidekick.
- Yes, try that again.
It's not an easy kick.
It's very hard.
Yeah, and almost feel like you are lifting up--
- Lifting up and then sliding forward, right?
- Just boom, yeah, see how my momentum is like that.
Good, one more time.
So application-wise, application-wise,
so here, when someone attacks,
this, he's not wearing anything,
'cause I've actually kicked someone
that I spar with, I broke his rib one time,
so I'm very careful with this.
When you're practicing be very, very careful,
'cause this stuff, if you're like,
how many pounds are you, Jack?
- 190.
- 190, right, you kick someone with power,
it could be two, 300 pounds,
so be very, very careful when you're practicing.
So when I practice, if he's not wearing anything,
I just tap, right?
So try again.
Right, one more time.
All right, one more time.
Now, sometimes this, again, from here,
he would think you might not be able to kick
from this distance, but actually you could, right?
Could be the ribs.
Could be also here to stop him, right?
Of course, stop kick.
So that's the second kick, it's a shorter distance,
more explosive.
The third one, which is the well-known
stop kick in JKD, (speaking in foreign language).
This is not so much a kick, it's more a stop.
So we don't have as much retract motion,
we just kind of lift our leg up.
Now, some people like to do it the sideway,
I show it to you.
They like to do it the sideway like that.
I don't like that, 'cause I find that when I do this,
come, it takes a long time to recover.
That's just my own experience.
I much prefer, if you put it on the shin,
yeah, so some people would do it like that
and then they come back this way.
I much prefer do the 45.
My foot is 45.
See, it's 45.
And notice this, I'm not bending my knees,
it's just like there.
It just stops.
So he comes forward, boom, just stops him
and then you kick, just like that.
So without this, so slow,
it's just to stop him, right, one more time.
And see my energy is solely forward.
Forward.
Forward, okay.
Try that.
Be very careful.
Just on the shin, yeah
- Head on, face to face?
- Yeah, face to face.
So you can just do the side, yeah, it doesn't matter.
Right foot forward, yeah.
No, with 45.
Right foot forward.
Yeah.
We're not even trying to push.
It's just, imagine sticking something right here.
- Okay, forward.
- Yeah, try that.
No, it's almost a bit too close.
So give him a little bit more distance,
little bit more distance.
Comes forward.
It's a good kick-- - Late on your foot?
- Yes.
But mainly still much, it's the heel.
Good, one more time.
So it takes a lot, so you have
the heavy power kick,
you have kind of somewhere in the middle.
You could finish below but you have to stop kick,
which also takes a lot of practice.
So it's more, see your body weight,
if I do the stop kick, he comes forward,
it's very little.
So this doesn't move that much, right?
It doesn't move that much
and you can do your thing.
So that's the sidekick in JKD,
so it's not just what you see in the movie.
When it comes to application, different ways
you can practice.
Best way to practice is with something like this,
a shield with a partner,
because the partner can give you feedback.
Are you doing good?
Are you not doing good?
For accuracy you can have one of those focus pad,
and have them kick something like this, right?
And then you can practice accuracy, your speed,
your snappiness, right?
Bruce liked to talk about the snappiness.
You gotta snap the kick. (clapping)
From there, hit the heavy back for power, right?
And then also practice with a partner
and do all of that.
And that's it, that's the Bruce Lee's JKD sidekick.
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