Hi guys I'm back with another kicking tutorial and today we're going to do the
jump spinning hook kick.
Right in order to do this kick properly you need to
watch my previous tutorial on the spinning hook kick which you can find a
link to here.
Make sure you go and watch that because if you haven't got the
basics you're not going to be able to pull off this kick properly.
So in the spinning hook kick tutorial we spoke about doing it in two ways the
first way is the way that related to this version of the kick. It is possible
to do the jump spinning hook kick the way I did it in the more advanced version but
it's not very easy to get the height because in order to
get the height for this kick you need to set and that's where you need that
step in. So we're going to be going on from the basic version of the spinning hook kick.
This kick is not a kick for real life it's very much performance
kick it's good for the movies, it's brilliant to do, it's a great kick
to show off and and it's very pleasing kick to do as well.
It's one of my favorite kicks but it's not really going to work in a real situation
so it wouldn't even bother but it's a kick that's that's nice to be able to do.
Of course Van Damme made this kick extremely famous. I have to
admit that I've never seen anyone do it quite as good as Van Damme.
He had such height, such grace, such fluid movement and such flexibility.
Really the Gold Standard for this kick is Van Damme so go watch bloodsport and kickboxer.
So first thing I want you to do with this kick is we're gonna set. We need to set
so that I can get a nice big jump the higher you jump the better this kicks
gonna look. So what I like to do is I'm gonna kick in my left leg again I'm
one step away from the point where I want to take off I'm gonna kick over
Bob's head. I'm gonna step forwards this foot there's ninety degrees and I'm
gonna set. I'm setting their arms like this the reason is I'm bending my knees
because I'm gonna jump up and from here I'm gonna pull this elbow across and I'm
going to look around as quickly as I can with my head
elbow gives me the speed my stance my quads is where I'm gonna push up and get
as much height as possible I'm gonna set and then I'm jumping up
and doing a full 360.
360 degrees all the way around to that position you started from.
So from here set up all the way around that's a full 360 and the higher
I can jump, the better my kicks gonna be.
So that's most of the kick done there.
Now all I've got to do is just sneak out that sneaky hook kick. I'm gonna have a
great looking just spinning hook kick. So I step forward I set
I jump up I spin around, elbow giving me that torque. My head as well giving me that torque.
When I'm looking at my target or over and I've rotated all the way
around on to this side on hook kick position, that's when I'm gonna throw
that hook kick out there I'm just going to sneak it over Bob's head.
So from here you set and kick.
Some other versions of this kick that I like, I don't even know what they're
called but I like to jump up show the knee and turn this into a jump spinning kick.
One of the things you learn in Taekwondo is being able to use flashy kicks front a
close distance so from here I've got a jump back this way and throw the kick.
Taekwondo is great for stuff like that.
Also with the back kick jumping away from my opponent.
Throwing kicks from all places.
And of course the other one with the knee up I can travel a bit of distance.
You see it's not good for real use!
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