Hey guys welcome back to another Scott Adkins tutorial I'm sorry it's been a
few weeks since I did the last one I apologize but I've been busy anyway
today we're going to be concentrating on the lead leg round kick.
So the first martial art that I started with was Taekwondo and we were all about
the lead leg turning kick as we will call it or the round kick
In the semi contact sparring days you have a side kick, the hook kick,
the lead round kick the lead turning kick is very good kick for
point sparring but is actually a really good kick for full contact sparring as well.
Not a lot of people use it, only very experienced people from karate and
Taekwondo backgrounds. But what's great about this kick is
that it's harder to see coming and really it's the kicks or punches that
you don't see that we're going to do the most damage and this kick if you do it
right it's hard to see coming
Just from here, what I want you to do is
is with this back foot first I'm gonna turn
I'm gonna turn the foot like this that's going to put my hip into the correct position.
So from here I'm gonna move that foot first I'm just going to turn
those toes out this way like that and then from here I'm just going to kick.
Flexibility of course is key and you can
look at my flexibility tutorial.
but if you can do this if you're flexible
enough to do that then you're flexible enough to kick head height.
What's important is that you lean back don't try and kick with your head up
here and fight against it. What you need to do is to lean back and then you can
open up much easier so as long as you've got balance when you see now these two
toes are pointing that way as long as you can get yourself into this position
you will be able to kick hand height but don't think you've got a chamber the knee
and then kick because what's gonna happen is you're
gonna lose time doing that. Okay for a beginner if you wanna practice that's probably
a good thing to do. However, once you get used to this kick I
suggested is much better just to go straight for the kick.
So from here in my fighting stance turn that foot and kick.
Again turn that foot out, doesn't have to be all the way out
but just to make sure that you get in
that sort of side on position.
Now what you want to try and do for a kick like this is to get your knee
across the other side of the guy's body. I can do like a real flicky kick it
comes up by that nice and fast but because I'm not hitting through I'm
leaving all the power and it's just a flick if want to do this kick with as
much power as you can you have to get your knee to the other side of his head
where my knees here and then then I'm gonna kick using the force of my quads
then I can kick harder. It's never going to be a really hard kick but it will be a
harder kick if you get to the other side of him. I don't know if you can see it but
that's the difference between this....
that's keeping the knee on this side
it's a flick right? Now I'm gonna bring the knee over to this side and you'll
see the difference...
It's hard because I've still got to get over his shoulder but you can see there's
more power there so - try not to make it a flicky kick. b
Bring that knee across and
you'll get that extra extension as your knee extends it hits in the foot, the shin maybe
and as that leg extends and then hit through the target with more body weight.