Welcome back to Powerhouse Kickboxing. Today, we're going to talk about lower kick. There's three types. I'll show all three and then we talk about each of them.
So first one is straight one. When you basically do not flip your hip, you use your hip going straight forward. You use it on like close than your opponent. So if this is the leg, you go little bit above the knee. So right see hip is going through forward. Back in position.
So the second type is a your regular low kick. When you flip your hip and using this leverage as a power source. One more time. Back in position, back in position and third type is jumping one, when you flip your hip more and it goes kind of up-down. Again. So there are three different types of Low Kick. But today we're going to focus on normal one when you flip your hip and again this is the kick, back in position.
Two things to remember. Your right arm, your back arm is dropping down when you flip the hip from here. This gives you a support system. So if you go with your arm inside, it's less power and you can't defend yourself. So momentum is pulling you on this side. So you're going like. So again arm is going back. So it gives you support and also we're going to use this arm to block punches, and it should come right away. We can do punch, squat, and punch back again. Punch back.
One more thing position of your knee. When you do Round House, if you're knee stops here on the line of this bag like this, basically your kick stops on the same line, you can't penetrate. So you have less power. Your opponent moves a little bit, you are losing power. So your knee should go inside. If this is the target, you aim your knee like to the left more inside of the target. So knees go this way.
Remember again if knees stops here, kick stop. So, your knee should go this way and you will have more body weight and momentum behind your kick. One more time, so now we're going to take to how to build the Round House. I'll show you few different exercises which will help you to have powerful Round House.
First one, get in position and you get to place your shin on the bag, not the foot. You keep your shin not foot. You place your shin on the bag. You knees shouldn't go outside of the bag because all your momentum is going away from the target. So again your knee inside but not away here, it's also not correct.
Place your shin on the back, turn your body toward back and you're going to bounce and lean back little bit. Bounce using these angles, you open them up like this, 1, 2, 3. Then you go back into position and go exactly same position you've just been, sending the bag through.
You're going to place shin on the back and you are going to bounce. 1, 2, 3 go back and in motion you try to move back. And second exercise, you are going to do same motion in one, in one. So, we're not going to bounce. So remember – but you remember the position, you have to get exactly the same position about, like your hip level, it's leg kick. So you place your shin over here. So you go back and from the position you go like, go back.
See when I'll slip, I use my body weight, hip and momentum to move the bag. Again, back in position.
Again it's not the kick yet. You have to push it first, to feel where the power is coming from. When you do this exercise, second exercise and first one, don't go high with your knee. So, don't go like this way.
Place your shin about in the middle of the hip. So step to the back and see it’s about in the middle of your hip little bit above the knee. So, you place your shiin over here, okay.
You need to flip your hip. This is the flip. See from this position you rotate. This way you use butt weight and your leg you are involving in the kick. So you use this leverage. Again, this is exercise. Again, back in position.
Think about your low kick as a baseball bat strike, that is a is two-motional kick.
First you swing and then you send all this momentum through. So same thing with the kick. First the motion, you will flip your hip, see. If you're going to do only flip basically you got the all this momentum going this way. You don't want that. You want the momentum going through the target, just throwing the tissue.
Okay so, it’s going not like this. You need to send this momentum through the target forward like baseball bat. One more time , one more time.
Another exercise for a low kick or Round House. We're going to do it in the air. We're going to spin around. I'm going to show it first and then I'll explain how to do.
This way you can lift your knee little bit up and slip your hip. Again and back in position. Imagine like you're kicking soccer ball on your left side. If you're right handed, see this is the leg you’re kicking with and ball is here. You send ball, it's ball over here. What you'll need to do, you need to rotate your hip and kick down. One more time, very important part, you need to flip your hip this way like this. Boom! And continue the motion. One more time, back in position. Use the momentum to get in same position. Again, back in position.
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