Hi guys and welcome to another Scott Adkins power kicking tutorial and today
we're going to be looking at how to kick Bob as hard as we can, isn't that right?
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Okay so you already have a tutorial for the lead leg round kick up so you can
see that by following this link.
Which would be to kickoff the front leg like that.
The lead round kick, turning kick.
Not the most powerful of kicks but a decent kick and if
they don't see it coming you can cause quite a bit of damage with it.
But how do you do a lead leg round kick with as much power as possible?
Well, what you want to do is do it the Thai boxing way.
You want to switch your stance bringing that foot back a little bit
so that you can recruit your hips.
First place the power comes from is the floor as we've discussed previously
pushing off that floor, that's where the power comes from. The second place is the
hips. The power comes from the torque of moving those hips.
If you're not recruiting your hips into a kick you're just using the leg. If you're using the
hips using the whole body the weight of your whole body. So you always want to
try if you can to recruit your hips into a kick.
but I'm still here and it's the
lead leg is forward and this hip is already in that end position
for the kick. How can I use the torque in my hips because the hip is
already there? So what I want to do for this kick is you want to switch like the
Thai boxers do. So I'm taking that hip back now not all
the way to here. The Taekwondo guys they do this okay and I think that
lacks a little bit of power. The most powerful version of
this kick would be the Muay Thai kick in my humble opinion. What you want to do is
you want to step back, now my hips are now parallel to Bob. Maybe this
one's just a little bit further back but the point is with this kick you want to
keep this shoulder forwards. So I'm twisting my hip back you can see this
shoulder is still forwards and now I come through
with the kick. Otherwise it would be like the Tae Kwon Do one where I'm
switching the whole body back and then kicking.
Make sure you watch my tutorial on the round kick
before attempting this kick only when you can do the round kick
as it's properly demonstrated in that video will you be able to do this one.
So make sure you watch the round kick video, there's a link for it up here.
I'm going to step with my kicking leg I'm gonna bring it back towards my back foot.
I'm not gonna step all the way behind it. I'm just gonna bring it up to
that foot and now I'm going to step forwards slightly with the other leg.
Now this has put my hips into a good position
where I can push off the floor and that's where the power starts from is
that push off the floor. I'm bringing the power from the floor into the kick
so I push off the floor and then I'm going to twist on the ball of the foot
up onto the ball of the foot as I kick I'll land with my heel and I'm
kicking with the shin. So that's how you're making this lead leg kick as powerful
as possible.
I'm gonna step up, step through. I'm setting up the hips
and then I kick.
so it's not like the Tae Kwon Do style which is all the way back like this.
The reason I don't like that style of kick is because this shoulder
comes all the way back here and then I've got to go all the way back.
I feel like I'm jumping back in order to come forwards and you
know you're losing some power.
What I like about this kick is you should keep the shoulder forwards.
So from here I'm stepping back but this shoulder is still
forwards and that hip has got room to give me some more power but
because the shoulders still forwards I am still keeping the speed of this kick.
I keep the shoulder forwards and I still keep the speed of the kick.
It's not as fast in this kick, of course, but it's faster in this kick.
If I keep the shoulder forwards then I can just go....
So it's powerful but I've kept the speed.
And that's why I like this kick.
Stepping back. Step forwards.
Keep your shoulder forwards then kick.
What's nice about this kick as well
because you're stepping through
if you can go towards your target quite nicely as well.
If you think he's going to move back I can come towards him.
From the other side. Attacking from here and then I want to do that
lead leg round kick but I want to do it with a bit more power
I'm going to step forwards a little but I've kept this shoulder forwards
haven't took it back
kept it leaning forwards now I twist on the ball of the foot
bring the heel round and hit with the shin or the instep.
So from here
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