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Hello fubar! How are we!! Awesome I knew you would be great! Time to finish this basic stuff up so we can move on eh! course we have this and one other to really finish it up! Ok so we have covered strikes and blocks, now for kicks. Kicks are the most important part of TKD. you can punch and block, but without the power of a good kick your going to be beat. There are a few basic kicks that can be moved to create more advanced options. Kicks: Front kick - easily the most basic and natural kick out there. This is done by taking your leg, bringing the knee up, and pushing out with the foot till the ball of your foot makes contact with your target. This is much like the straight punch of kicks. Round house - most common kick even at high levels. This is done by taking the leg and driving the knee and hip forward till the foot snaps out like a whip to make contact. Low, high either are devastating. Step behind side kick - great way to learn how to throw a regular side kick, great way to cover distance quickly. You take your leg and step behind the other then take the front leg, lift the knee to your chest and strike out with the heel/side of the foot. Side kick - this is the advanced version of the step behind. Its much faster and can be adjusted to other kicks as well. In this kick you take your leg swing it around to the front with your knee pulled to your chest, you then strike out the same as the step behind landing with your heel/side of your foot on your target. Axe kick - This is a powerful kick using not only power but speed and gravity. You take your leg kick out as high as you can till the knee locks out then drive it down into the chest or the top of the head of your target. Crescent kick - There are two variations of this kick. One inside out the other outside in. both these are fast and powerful kicks. They start similar to an axe kick, but instead of driving the leg downward you take the kick and circle it around. This is used most often to strike the head or clear the arms for a follow up attack. So the power is in the snap as it spins to the target. Hook kick - one of my favorites. This starts similar to a side kick, but ends with the leg passing by the head (tricky!) and then snapping back to strike the side or back of the head with the heel. Its nice because most people don't expect the kick to come back and figure you just missed the side kick. (I even got my instructor in the head in front of my Grandmaster!) Fast kick - A round house thrown by the front leg. Quick like a jab, usually used to set up other more powerful kicks. (but can be deadly, this is how I broke my nose in Oct at a tournament!) Back kick - My other favorite kick. Great for defending and for attacking! The best way to describe this kick is to picture a mule kicking. Powerful, striking, stopping, hurting. I have knocked people down in tournaments with a well placed back kick. Spin heel - This is a fast, powerful spinning kick. Used effectively can be a knock out or worse. The body spins on the front leg towards the back, the kick is then thrown out similar to a back kick and at the last moment is hooked back in to strike with the heel. This is how the Korean fighter won the Olympic gold medal at the Lats summer Olympics (you tube has a great video) Butterfly (tornado) kick - This is a fun fast and confusing kick! Fun cause of how its done, fast and confusing to your opponent. To do this kick (and ill try to explain it) you would stand with one leg forward and one back so your shoulder shows to the opponent. Then you spin towards your back whipping your head around (which drags your body behind it) you then spin and at this point the kick becomes similar to the round house with an extra whip. This can be reversed with a step forward then the spin added depending on what way you want to strike your opponent. Defensive round house - This is used when moving backwards. Its similar to a round house, but a hop is added to snap the leg forward to strike the person coming at you. (a back kick can be used as well) Most all of these kicks can become more advanced and more devastating with a small jump added. When performed right this adds another dimension to the kick. Jump spin heel Jump back kick Jump round house Jump front kick Jump side (flying side) Jump fast jump axe Jump hook (rarely used) There are other kicks used in other styles and some even in TKD that are so rare that I will not bother covering them here, these can include sweeps, kneeling kicks, knee strikes, knee kicks (targeting the knee) and so on. Any of the above kicks can also be moved high or low depending on the situation. Well Fubar that does it for me today, I'm out! And you stay classy Fubar!
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