okay so we've all got a lot of time on our hands we're stuck indoors so I'm
going to take this opportunity to talk to you guys about some of my favorite
kicks and how to perform them. We're gonna be doing the Scott Adkins power
kicking tutorial and today we're gonna be learning the back kick.
So there's two parts to your standard back kick the way you would be taught it normally.
I'm here in my fighting stance now ready to jab cross whatever I'm going to
step with my non kicking leg which is the front leg just to the side the
reason I'm doing that is I'm opening up the clear line of sight from this leg
straight into my opponent. It's not obstructed by my other leg it's got a
clear view and a straight line is the quickest route. So a clear line of sight
and you kick straight back with the heel straight there like that. Make sure I
kick with my heel higher than my toes and my knee as you can see, is down.
It's not up like this. You say what happens to my hip when I lift my knee up
it's more of a sidekick position. You can see that my hip changes position you
don't want that it is a back kick it's not a side kick.
So you want to keep your hip down here your back still kind of facing the
pad. So from here I'm pushing off the floor I'm keeping my hips in this
position facing away from my opponent like that. It's still about it and it's
just a straight line straight back.
The power of kicks comes from two places really, it comes from your hips and it
comes from the floor because the floor is always what you're going to be
pushing off. Whether it's a punch whatever it's always going to come first
from the floor and then from the hips and everything else follows, so with a
back kick, you've got to make sure you don't set
your back kick up and then chamber the knee and then kick. I've basically took all the
power that I had from pushing off the floor and I've wasted it by bringing the
knee up and then throwing the kick. What you can do is you can push off the floor
from here, let's push off the floor and as soon as I push off the floor I go
straight back into the kick. I'm using the power from the floor which doesn't
move to propel my heel into the target as quickly as possible. So from here
step across, look over the shoulder and as soon as I push off the floor -
straight into that kick. One more time. I'm in my fighting stance, I step across,
I open up this kicking leg, clear line of sight, kick straight back, with the heel.
Thats your perfect back kick. Three movements.
One, two, three.
Step across and back kick.
Maybe your hear like this and they can see that you're angling your your back leg to come
across this way now that's a telltale sign from here you're fighting and I'm
looking to throw some sort of spinning kick or the back kick. You absolutely
don't want to do that. Also another telltale sign is if I'm here I've
stepped across. Now you know I'm going to throw the kick, yeah? You can see it coming. If you
know what to look for as soon as I've done that you know what I'm gonna do so
the idea is to disguise the fact that I'm going to throw this back kick.
One of the ways to do that is to take the step out of it.
From this position what you needs to do, you're just gonna switch your feet like that. Thats all
you need to do. So you're here, you're fighting and you switch, that's all you need to do.
I'm fighting, I'm sparring and I'm just gonna switch legs like that. And if I can do
that with enough speed and dexterity, then I can just
turn it into a back kick.
Keep your hat on Bob, you stupid....idiot!
So from here, I'm moving, I'm sparring..
That's your perfect back kick.
Another thing you can do but this would be telegraphing it but
you can kind of use it as a cheat. You step through up and show the knee
like I'm gonna throw some sort of kick. I use that as a feignt and then I throw the back kick.
Another variation of this kick I like to do
is the side kick, back kick.
which a lot of people don't expect.
They think you're just going to throw one kick
So if they decide to parry that or just stay a little bit away from it
and went for the opening, obviously if your opponent just moves back it's a
difficult one to pull off. But if they think I was just gonna be the one the
one technique I'll block that and I'll hit him then follow up with a back kick, like so.
And of course what you can do, is if you've been throwing a few of these
back kicks, the opponents probably...he's getting the read, you're throwing these
back kicks every time and he's getting ready to cover up. He thinks he knows
what's coming and of course and then spin kick.
So remember, back kick. Not side kick. Back kick.
That's the most devestating kick in martial arts!