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- Bruce Lee's JKD, Jeet Kune Do, front kick.
Now, in the previous video, we've shown you some
of the basic low kicks in JKD.
Today we're going to take one of the
one of the kicks, the front kick
and expand on that and show you the variations of it
and we have Victoria joining us.
Now this kick is particularly effective for ladies.
So if you have a spouse, a girlfriend,
have them watch this video because
in a self-defense situation with ladies,
if you don't have a lot of training
this is one of those kicks that kicks the groin.
Very, very painful to the attacker,
someone trying to attack you,
have them watch this video, as well.
So Sifu with the front kick, what are some
of the pointers and important things
you gotta watch out for?
- Just to make sure that you're not overstepping,
because sometimes you'll utilize a position
you'll try to stand in one position and then
you'll stand in another position just to throw a kick.
Now that takes three steps to do that.
You don't wanna do three steps,
you wanna get good enough to where you can just
kick from where you're standing.
And you talk about for women, absolutely.
I am a big advocate around this,
I train my daughter in the same way,
ensure that she understands that's where you go first.
Even looking back at all our videos
about how we're doing certain things,
I want you to keep something in mind.
Apply this on every single one of those motions
and you'll see what I'm talking about.
It's a distraction, it's gonna hurt,
it's everything you need it to be.
That's why it was important to do.
But going back to the kick is the first thing
you want to be able to do is get some
momentum to get the mechanics down.
So first of all, the rear foot comes in
and replaces the front foot.
- That right there.
- As it replaces the front foot,
this one leaves and the knee's kind of coming up
and it propels forward, right?
Pointing the toe, and it comes right back to position.
And this is the best way to develop the mechanics.
Because some of us can't do straight kick
from where we're at, it's too difficult.
So let's get the mechanics down.
- See that?
- Bring the foot in, the leg comes up,
and then I'm back to position.
Okay, and I mean, you just imagine that
you know, it's something that somebody doesn't see
because usually the distraction is up here, okay?
Visually everything's going, everybody's arguing
and all of the sudden what if you
just threw that one in there?
Your opponent can't see it.
- Usually when they try to attack you,
they might grab your shoulders.
- Yeah, yeah.
- They might grab your hair. - Correct.
- They might grab your chest. - Yeah.
- Or they might try to punch you,
they're thinking of your upper body,
they're not thinking about this.
But what I notice is, I think it's a human instinct thing,
why we want to practice non-telegraphic motion,
if you try to kick the guy like a football,
like I'm gonna kick you like that,
- Right.
- Nine out of ten, you walk up to any guy,
you do this, dupe you like that.
Without any training.
Like that, it's a normal, normal reaction.
I try to throw a ball, it'd be like that
because I know guys think the groin,
it's a human instinct, it's part of this,
part of this material brain, right?
- Right, right.
- So we want to be non-teleraphic
and you wanna just poof, kick that.
- Correct, and so the sneaky thing about this
is the best way to do this is to just stay relaxed.
This has to come up without any effort.
If you tense on the way there, it's too noticeable.
It's like you're trying to kick a field goal
and it's not going through, right?
But this one, you wanna be able to just relax, see?
And the way I do it, I modified it to where it's just
naturally done just using the hips, okay,
and with that, I can get it to relax on the way there
and on the way back and there's a crack at the end.
I'm not trying to protrude going through it, see.
If you can crack it, it's going to penetrate pretty well.
- It's gonna crack.
- So the thing is, once you get used to that,
you can just bring the leg up from wherever you're at,
whether you're standing here, here, or whatever.
And all of a sudden it's boom, back.
Now, you're shortening it, but that depends on the range
between you and the opponent.
If you're this close and you're about to engage
this one works fairly well, okay?
If you had to advance them, that's pry not
the most practical way but it's best way to train it.
So if you can get to the point where
you're going, right, that's where I'm trying
to develop that whip, so.
- You wanna give it a try?
- Victoria, go ahead and give it a try.
Start from the rear foot.
- Move closer, just like that.
- Yes.
- Excellent, so foot comes up, replaces the front,
and extend the foot.
- Boom, nice. - Good.
Good, if we talk about recovery,
if you wanna go back to your original stance.
Same way you've delivered it,
you want to return back so the foot then replaces
the foot in front and the steps back.
So you hit, and it comes right back to this position.
Better, good.
Yes, good, take your time.
- See, the more relaxed, the more power you have.
- Yeah.
- Yes, nice.
- Relax.
Good.
- Yes, don't focus on trying to kick hard.
Focus on relaxed and the whip and the snap.
- So how does that feel to you compared to last time.
- Yeah, it's a lot more natural feeling.
- Yeah, good, light.
- I don't feel like I'm deliberately trying
to deliver a really powerful kick.
- Yeah, but it's power.
- I feel more, I feel like, yeah,
there's more exertion but I feel more balanced.
- More balanced.
- I'm not gonna fall over.
- Nice, nice, nice.
- Now what I'm going to do is actually increase the cue
so you're more relaxed, so it's more instant,
rather than thinking about it before you deliver it.
So with that, I'm gonna grab a couple of things
that I like to call friends and when you hear the sound,
that's when you deliver the kick,
so that way you're not thinking about it.
Now just increasing your reaction time, ready?
[Crack]
- Yeah, maintain focus in between.
[Crack]
- Good, rear foot first.
[Crack]
- Good.
[Crack]
- Nice.
All right, do one more.
[Crack]
- Boom.
- And see there are also other variations
of this particular kick.
- Yes.
- So we can hit with the instep
and we can also hit with the toes.
- Yes, the toes, you can pull your toes back
and actually go forward.
If you lean back just a little bit,
you're applying a little bit more length to it.
- So from there.
- Mmhmm, so that's one way, the other way would be
the scoop kick, so let's say we're
- In the closer.
- Yeah and then it's right here.
- Like a scoop.
- Right, by that time, he's already going ooh.
That's when you take advantage of the situation.
- Because this is too close for a typical front kick, right?
- Yes, you can't, you can't do a pendulum straight,
it takes too long.
I mean, if you wanna do these kind of training exercises,
that's fine, it's just going to take time to get there.
I prefer to get it done.
Okay?
If I can get it done, you can actually utilize that leg.
- Like that.
So it's within a trapping range
and when people are in the trapping range,
they might not be thinking about
oh you're going to kick me in the groin.
They're not thinking about that.
- Correct.
- They're thinking like this, you can kick me in the groin.
- Yes.
- They're not thinking about,
this is actually my favorite kick, this one.
I get that one a lot.
So we are gonna try a scoop kick.
A little bit closer, a little bit closer,
yep, just like that.
And she can even do it just at the spot.
- You can even do it there on the spot,
without even using the pendulum.
So get a little closer to it.
That's about right there.
- Yeah.
- There ya go.
- See that?
Boom.
Right, see that's very natural.
Boom.
The reason to use the swoop kick
is you're swooping the balls, the groin.
- Yes.
- It's a very graphic thing.
- Well, I mean the reality is that's the key target.
When we're going around talking about,
well let's try that, put it under pressure.
What are you talking about?
What are you gonna put under pressure?
I'm gonna hit you in the balls anyways
so try to put it under, okay whatever.
So just go ahead and continue practicing that
and believe me, it's a tool you can use
if you walk out the first day learning this.
- Yeah, so front kick there, extend toes and then swoop.
The important thing is the hip,
make sure you use the hip movement.
Now before we go, maybe, Sifu showed us
after the swoop kick, maybe what's a follow up
that they could do, why's it good to do?
- So a follow up, depending on the distance,
I would always imagine myself being this close.
That elbow is going to be very damaging.
Especially if you go pops on the bridge of the nose.
If you're here and then he hunches,
this could end up hitting him on the jaw line, okay?
You hit here, you step out this way,
out this way.
So the follow ups can be very damaging,
especially with the elbows, elbows are very effective.
I would strongly advise using them
in case you're getting pushed, cornered,
any way possible, scoop kick kicks,
anything you can think of.
So scrape down the shin, step on the foot,
scrape the groin, elbow, eye jab whatever it is
that you have to do to get out.
- Very, very devastating.
So make sure you practice safe.
If you're practicing with a partner,
make sure they have the protective gear.
Otherwise you end up with no partners to practice with.
Happened a couple of times.
So be safe, be safe.
So there you go, that's the front kick in JKD.
The three different variations.
Practice those, again, it takes a lot of practice.
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Until next time, don't kick your friend in the groin,
be safe, be well my friend.