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Do you want to perform kicks like that?
Today we're gonna give you a few kicking drills in JKD,
how Bruce Lee trains his kicks.
The first kick, the first drill we're gonna give you
is the clock drill.
- Okay, clock drill, you have to stand in the center.
You imagine that you're in the middle of a clock
and you're looking at 12 o'clock, two o'clock,
3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, and 6 o'clock.
Those are the positions you're going to kick.
A straight kick would just come up here.
That's it.
Inverted, now a lot of people are not used to this
so you could just turn and kick straight,
if you're not used to this kick.
And three o'clock is actually a low side kick here.
That's it.
Four o'clock is the heel kick and then the back six o'clock
is basically a heel kick as well.
It's just a back kick, but you're just turning,
making sure that your hands are in this position,
and you turn as you kick.
Then you go on the left side.
You're gonna go on the left side here straight, one.
Two, that's it.
Three.
Four.
And then five is actually the six o'clock.
So don't get confused about the number
when I say at five that's actually six o'clock on the clock.
- So boom, boom, boom, boom, five point and then five point.
- Exactly - Think of yourself as a clock
- Again, we're going to start it off.
My hands are up.
Don't drop your hands.
Hands are up.
You go one, okay, good.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Good... left side.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
- How many of these we should do when we practice?
- I would say, I don't know, 10 on each side.
Because you need to keep it going.
The whole idea is to get used to those positions.
If I'm here, sorry.
If I'm here... trying to not obstruct the camera angle,
but if I'm here and then there's an opponent this way.
I can immediately attack at that angle
- Or I'm here. - Or you're here in the side.
- Or I'm in the front.
- Or in the front is just here.
Those are easy. - On this side.
So you understand how to utilize your tool
from whatever position rather than trying to get in front
of him and say, okay, I gotta kick this way.
No, it doesn't always have to be that way.
You never know, based off awareness
and your area of comfort.
You're walking down the street
and somebody were to move in on you--
hopefully it's never an attack,
but don't ever think that people are always attacking you--
it's just here or it's here.
- From all directions.
- It's all directions, but most importantly
it helps structure your kicks.
That's why I like this drill in itself.
You can do all of them: one, two, three, four, five.
Then you can continue with the speed
when you start getting more involved.
Rather than going, one Mississippi, two,
I'll go,
one
so that way it's...
rather than spending a lot of time on that,
I'm gonna go through all of them much quicker.
- Do want to demonstrate, maybe in the center?
- With good structure, though.
Kick Bruce here.
About here, here.
- And if you do it in speed?
- Little bit off balance, but, hey.
You're just trying to get the fun out of it.
- That's the first drill.
Another thing that you can do is the same kicks
but you actually train with a training buddy,
but do it in slow-mo.
I find that with some accuracy
because kicking always want to do it fast,
want to do it powerful.
But I actually improve a lot when I actually
kick slow and hit slow.
See if you, me, you can demonstrate.
- Yeah, so you're partner's standing
in a right lead position and all you do is stand stationary
and you just look at your target.
You go slowly to the groin, the inside of the leg
you shift and pivot the rear foot.
As you shift and pivot, you're gonna use the hook kick.
Good and then if I do the outside, and this is for training,
I'd just go outside.
Alright, and then another one is the side kick, low.
But I'm being careful, right?
All you're doing--
- You're not trying to hurt your partner.
- is getting in position.
- And it's actually not as easy as that looks.
When you kick slow, am I off balance?
Your distance... you think you can touch your friend,
but oh, okay, my distance is a little bit off.
So it trains your distance judgment
or it trains, also, your accuracy.
Sometimes what I will do, also,
I would maybe have them out, okay, how do you feel?
Am I tapping the right position?
Very lightly, right?
You can feel that so practicing kicking slow.
The third drill which is the stationary extension.
Same kind of kicks, but it's, in a way,
training the muscles, right,
the strength, the tendons. - Absolutely.
- I'll use this frame for support.
You can use a chair.
You can use, I don't know,
your partner if there's nothing around.
You grab onto the frame.
You have a supporting foot.
Now, you're able to isolate
what you need to do with this kick.
You can fully extend.
- And you're working this part.
- And if you want to position your toes a little better,
you'll go here.
- And how long would you hold this?
How many seconds?
- I would say about five seconds.
Let's say I do the side kick
and I'm gonna go towards the camera here.
I go: one, two. - And you should feel it.
- Three, four. - You would feel it up here.
- Feel it everywhere. - Five.
- You tighten this hand up so you know that
instead of feeling the pain here
you're gonna feel the pain here.
It's psychological.
- You're gonna feel pain everywhere.
- Then you come back and relax and then do it again.
Boom.
Two.
Three.
Four.
And five.
And that's all you need, we'll come back down.
You can do another one here.
One, two, or you could do the ball, three, four, and five.
Good.
- Then can be left leg, right leg?
- Then you could do left leg and this time
I'm gonna share the hook kicks.
The hook kick would go here.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
- So you're working on those,
isolated your muscle on all those areas.
- Yeah, otherwise your kicks are gonna be sloppy, right?
You're gonna be like...
You wanna be able to (straining).
- Every single time. - Really get it in there.
- Strengthening of those strength exercises like this,
you're going to strengthen this area
and the structure of the leg and the kick.
Again, this way.
One of my favorites is, again, bending this leg here.
- And you hold that.
- In JKD we believe it's not so much
how many techniques you know,
how many kicks that we know.
It's the stuff behind each technique, the substance.
I'd rather have two or three techniques and kicks,
but a lot of qualities behind those kicks
versus, oh, I know 200 kicks but each of them is sloppy
then it doesn't do you any good.
Practice those three drills.
You can take these principles, apply to any kick.
Maybe you're in TaeKwonDo, maybe you're in Karate,
Thai Boxing, it really doesn't matter.
It's the same drill that you can apply.
The club drill, slow-mo, accuracy,
and also stationary extension.
Those are the three drills so practice well and be careful.
Remember, training partner, it's about getting good.
It's not about getting hurt.
Practice carefully and comment below if you have questions.
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