(upbeat music)
- Bruce Lee's JKD, Jeet Kune Do,
roundhouse kick or known as the hook kick.
Now today we're gonna show you how do you deliver
the roundhouse kick and some of the applications of it.
So Sifu, last time we covered the front kick
and this roundhouse kick or the hook kick.
- Right.
- Is also a very, very common kick that we use, right?
- Yes, and the hard piece about this is how to develop
that power again within this much space.
And where we take it is from the lead foot.
So, if you were to use your rear leg,
you have lot of power to get to the target
and you will cause a lot of damage.
- Which is like Taekwondo kick or a Thai kick.
- My weapon is closest to the target,
I'll utilize the cracking whip effect over that
just because it's gonna get there quicker.
So if I did the hook kick, okay.
This foot comes in
and I just simply bring this foot up.
By that time, this is still pivoting to six o'clock.
And when I say six, it's the toes that go in that direction.
So I can rotate the hip, okay?
So if I go back to square one, I come in, right,
this slides, I rotate, there's my hook kick.
And I'm not bringing it out here to do it.
I'm doing it from here very low, okay?
I can do it with that target and just for an example.
Just again, get that acceleration and speed and the power is
to bring this foot in, create some acceleration,
turn the hip over so you can get that effect, right?
And that's just.
(grunting)
What you're trying to do is just get it to stun the target.
Now Jack here, how much do you weigh?
- 180.
- 180, okay he's going to utilize that weight
to apply the hook kick into the target.
(kick smacking)
You can still have a damaging blow
just by his use of lead power.
(grunting)
Now if you lean back some more.
- Okay.
- You would engage your hip.
- And then using this to turn, right, Sifu?
- Yes, you rotate the hip over
and you'll see how it'll come down.
(grunting)
Good, now try it, it's gonna get harder,
try it where your foot just goes
right behind the front foot,
where it lands about right here.
- Okay.
- If you rear cross it.
There you go, you're just gonna minimize less space now.
(grunting)
- It's harder, see?
- Yeah.
- Lean back.
- Good.
- Ah, that was excellent.
- That was good, that was well done.
- Good, try to do it without stepping first.
Rear foot first.
- Rear foot first, like this?
- No, the rear foot comes in, that's it.
- And then six o'clock, six o'clock.
- Yes.
- Can I try a couple, too?
- Sure.
- This leg.
- You want me to be on that side?
- It doesn't matter, here, okay.
(grunting)
- So just getting to the target much faster
than if you were to wind up for it.
You may lose a little bit of the power, but its effects
are the same and you want to be able to get to the targets
much quicker so you can engage with your other weapons.
- And like you said, Sifu, it's this angle, right?
You're turning the hip, so like you say,
it's like this kind of motion.
- Yes.
- This kind of motion, right?
- Mm-hm.
- And then we imagine when you're hitting, you also want to
hit through the target but we're not aiming at just this.
You want to aim at here.
- That's right.
- Somewhere there
and land it.
- Right. - Right.
- You'll get more power, too, if you step with it.
So if you're going straight to it,
you'll achieve less power but if you go along with
the momentum, you'll do this, alright?
And you engage everything you can to get that power.
You can turn it around and do it again,
but this time this way, that way the camera can see it.
So again it goes from here, we are not doing this
and I rotate right into it, see?
(grunting)
Okay, so.
- And the primary target, Sifu, we're kicking the knees.
- You would do the outside of the leg here okay.
But.
- Mainly the groin.
- Yeah, my preference because the outside the leg is-
- Too strong.
- It's too strong.
- A lot of guys with training, they can take a good hit.
- Right, so I probably wouldn't even go that route.
I'd probably end up hitting here.
I'm always going to go right to that
if you're on the opposite end.
- It's only when they are more like that, right?
- On the right lead.
- Right lead, then you do the?
- Yeah, then it's open for me because
I'm gonna go straight for that.
- Yes, okay,
so there you go, that's the JDK roundhouse hook kick.
You can combine with the footwork or even practice
stationary just to get the power, get the whip,
and I know one of the kind of secrets
you taught me, too, Sifu, you put your elbow.
(bones cracking)
- It's a secret, shh.
- It's a secret, don't share that with anybody.
- No, no, you engage the core by dropping the elbow
here and really releasing it forward.
This rotates all at the same time, with this engaged
you get a lot of power out of it.
- So you can try to kind of do it like that,
and you just kick or you can try to,
(bones cracking)
kind of do a little of
it's almost imagining pulling something here.
- Yes.
- Like you're pulling something and use that momentum
to do it, although we are sacrificing a little bit
of the hand, you're not protecting yourself.
- Yeah, and that's probably part of the problem
when you're trying to do speed.
You lose protection up here because
you're engaging everything you can.
You're swinging the arm, but you're
gonna come right back up to protect yourself.
So you only do these in the cases where
it's open and it's ready to go.
You hit it and you can recover again.
- Yeah.
So test it out, you'll feel when you turn
six o'clock, your foot pointing that way.
Your hip, turn your hip, just feel different pattern,
with pulling, without pulling, without,
and just try it out
and you'll see what gets more power.
It's easy to cheat on this exercise, right?
'Cause you wanna,
oh let me do more and then
as you kick more, you're having fun.
Slowly, you're kicking like this.
- Right.
- Slow down, get back to this and get back to the form.
Do it slow and take your time, be patient, be patient.
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