Hello guys and welcome back to another Scott Adkins kicking tutorial. Today we're
going to do one of my all-time favorite kicks and it is the cheat 720.
OK this is a great kick. Do you know what? For a long time I couldn't do this kick properly.
I used to do it the wrong way and it wasn't until I hooked up with the
Ginger Ninja trickster himself Aaron Gassor that he showed me the
proper way to do this, the korean way, the taekwondo way. So shout out to Aaron
thanks mate. You need to make sure that you can do the kicks that progress
to this kick so you need to make sure you can do a spinning hook kick.
You need to make sure that you did a tornado kick. You probably need to make sure
that you can do the 540 kick. It is possible that if you can do the tornado
you can do this kick but really if you want to do this kick to the best of its ability
you need to be able to do the tornado kick. There's links to those
kicks in my tutorials below that you can find. Make sure you watch those first and
practice practice practice as much as you can and then when he can do that
you're gonna move on to the cheat 720.
So what a lot of people do when they are first starting to learn this kick
myself included back in the day.
Is you end up spinning in a straight up
position with my feet at the bottom here and my head at the top
and I'm rotating on that access like that but if you want to do
this kick properly, don't be spinning through the air in this position
You want to be tilted like that so when you throw the kick and I'm doing
this with my left leg obviously doing your right leg it's gonna be the other
way but with your left leg I'm tilted back this way, away
from my opponent, where I'm kicking. My head is well away from it.
My hip is more forwards so that when I do the hook kick I'm actually in a hook position.
I should be like this. But what people do is they're not
able to lean back when they do the spin for this kick, they end up spinning
on the spot in that upright position and you can't get the hook kick out then, you
can only do the Crescent kick. So the wrong way to do this kick will look
something like this I haven't done it for a while so forgive me if it's a
really lame version of this kick - I'm sure it will be.
So to be completely upright.
Something like that. Coming around with the Crescent kick, bodies upright.
My head is too far back, it's hard for me to kick up because my head's too far this way.
I really need to be leaning back in a proper hook hit position. It should be
the same positionas when I do a spinning hook kick like that.
Leaning back, kicking through with the heel. I need to be in the same position after
I've done the spin. The first thing you need to do with this kick, the same is with
the 540 same as the tornado kick - we're gonna step in
Why are we gonna step in? Because it's going to help us gain momentum and it's
going to help me gain some height. I'm also going to be able to use my arms.
I'm going to telegraph the kick but that's okay for the purposes of learning this
kid it's fine to telegraph it.
So from back here
I'm gonna be kicking with my left leg. If you're gonna take the right leg
obviously you're gonna do it the other way.
I view most of the kicks in my left because I like to spin to my left.
I'm crap that's spinning the other way
and when I tore my ACL it prevented me from doing a lot of spins on that knee.
because I completely destroyed it - but anyway, enough of that.
So from here, what I'm gonna do is really use my arms, going to wind up quite a bit
and I'm gonna step forward and around with this foot okay
I'm almost gonna step all the way 360 with that foot I'm actually gonna do two
little skips. I'm gonna go one two and then up. Especially on the floor like this
which grabs your grip. You can't spin on it fvery well so you need to place place.
So I'm using my arms, I'm winding up and it's one - two - jump!
I'm jumping up and I'm spinning around.
Now how do we get from this position to this position?
Well this is why you have to know the tornado kick first
and also the 540 because the way I like to do it is as I'm spinning around what I'll
do is I'll jump up and I'm gonna point my knee where I'm gonna throw the kick
so I'm stepping in and I'm gonna point that knee so I'm looking at my
target and I'm also pointing the knee at my target. Now, the higher l jump and
higher I can get my knee, the more air time I'm going to have and it's very
important to spot your target. You need to squat in target twice well three
times really because at the beginning the first time I'm looking at where I'm
going to kick okay but then I'm gonna twist and I'm going to spot. I'm seeing
where I'm gonna kick and then they're gonna jump up with that knee and I'm
gonna look again before I kick. That's three times I am looking at the target. At
the beginning - one - two - as I turn, and as I turn around again
I'm looking for a third time. Spotting three times. The middle one is the most important.
Because you need to gauge where you are in that spin
where the target is whether tthe target has moved but most importantly to have sopcial awareness.
Stepping in - that spot there!
Thats the most important. You see I was driving the knee up.
Thats what is going to give you the lean back
because as I'm coming up driving the knee up, it's forcing my body back.
Forcing my body back now what I've got to do is one little more
turn I've got a perfect hook kick. That we want for this 720
It's a cheat 720 hook kick.
Not cheat 720 crescent kick.
Its a cheat 720 hook kick.
Drive that knee up, point it at the head and then you're almost there one last spin
you got that hook kick. Like this.
and again
Drive that knee up.
Drive that knee up to where you are going to kick.
So that is essentially it!
As long as you drive that knee up - leaning back.
As that knee comes up that last turns a the proper legit hook kick
with the flat of the foot or the heel and then you have got your proper cheat 720
Enjoy your journey fellow martial artists! I'll see you next week.