edededed wrote:I guess for different uses/targets?
1. Instep: mainly for nut-cracking?
2. Ball of foot: any front targets
3. Heel: also any front targets
4. Toes: for weak spots (also good if you have hard shoes)
edededed wrote:Same as usual?
Kicking the bottom of the back with instep might be like kicking a rock, though...
Luckily, nut-kicking usually does not require that much power.
johnwang wrote:Do you train your front kick in one of those 3 different ways? Which way is better in your opinion?
2. Straight front kick (kick with toes).
3. Downward front kick (kick with the ball of the foot).
origami_itto wrote:#3 is what I train the most but not with that throwing the torso back stuff, I don't know what that's all about.
Bao wrote:Cute Kung fu girl teaches the straight forward snap kick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zxZjLlFMVY
johnwang wrote:Bao wrote:Cute Kung fu girl teaches the straight forward snap kick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zxZjLlFMVY
The snape kick with instep is the kick that bother me the most for the following reasons:
- When one does this kick, his body momentum is not involved most of the tme. He pretty much just use the leg and not using the body.
- There are not that many horizontal targets on a human body.
- It can not be trainned on a vertical heavy bag, or a tree trunk.
- The function is similar to roundhouse kick.
In the following clip, his kick involves with body momentum.
yeniseri wrote:I once had an argument with some acquaintances sbout use of CMA front kick and it persists until today.
The "kick" is real but it is more of a traning tool for execution of various "inner hooking" and "outer hooking" strategies with combinations depending on the skill of the player.
I was never great at TKD kicking but I realized that the kicking training allowed me better use of inner or outer hooking (kicks) and development of skill.
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