Power kicks the Thai way

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=witJISymkWo

This is a good light/medium level workout (depends on your conditioning) you can do, even if you don’t have a full banana bag it’s OK. Yodsanklai is probably the hardest kicker p4p in Thailand right now.

Just drill body kicks over and over again, knees, push kicks/side kicks and punching combinations.

Important to note, watch how he does his thrust kick (right one) at 0:51. That style is for more power and damage.

At 0:57 notice how he throws the knees, thrust the body outward by pushing off the supporting foot. Don’t force your knee so high, focusing thrusting forwards with the hip and throw your weight into it.

Watch the kicks closely, especially the footwork. A lot of people have this weird idea that the “step” you need to take to line up the kick (if you want to even take a step) need to be big or exaggerated but this is not true, it can be very, very minute movement in the footwork.

Another trick is to forcefully “step-into” your supporting leg, it can just be a TINY step or movement like I stated but it’s the way you drive into the ground, and then explode back up for a bit of extra power and momentum.

And oh, don’t keep your knees locked man. Too many Kickboxer movies of kicking trees, LOL. Bend your knee it should slam out.

Remember the adage my old Thai trainer always tells me:

“You don’t kick with your leg, you kick with your hip.”

edit: waiting for CMA people to tell me something wrong with these kicks. :smiley:

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Nice!

edit: waiting for CMA people to tell me something wrong with these kicks.

because a lot of them wouldn’t know a real kick

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why does every thread need to be an attack on kung fu practice.

you don’t think muay thai is a traditional martial art? lol

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he is clearly not using any “qi” in his movements

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I thought it was gonna be this vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wcTrmW9OLE

Old School Hardcore.

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Nicely done, I am not a fan of his punches but that left round is a thing of beauty.

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bag training? really?

can you guys put up even more boring videos? lol

pad training shows more…how about a pad training drill? lol

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a kick is just a kick

a kick is not just a kick (tactics and strategy, opening–)

a kick is just a kick.

  1. accuracy and speed are important, too

power wise, only need sufficient or enough, since you are kicking the soft spots, such as temple, ribside, abdomen, groin, chin, knee shin —

low kick, crescent kick, axe kick, side kick, point kick—

shaolin has 64 or 88 leg method or kicking methods

how many methods in thai kicks?

  1. tactics and strategy

what are in thai kicks?

  1. power is enough to do the job, no need to persue more and more power in the kicks

use a iron rod or a weapon, your leg is stronger than an iron rod?

hwat are weapon training in thai way?

4 how to defend against kicks?

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in muay thai there is a weapons element that is fast falling by the wayside in favour of the current iteration which is for sport fighting.

but Krabi Krabong is the Thai version of weapons arts.

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[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1048941]why does every thread need to be an attack on kung fu practice.

you don’t think muay thai is a traditional martial art? lol[/QUOTE]

Because you have clueless kung fu “sifus” like that moonymantis guy who claim to have studied kung fu for 40 years coming here telling people they are not supposed to drop their arm when kicking.

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[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1049000]in muay thai there is a weapons element that is fast falling by the wayside in favour of the current iteration which is for sport fighting.

but Krabi Krabong is the Thai version of weapons arts.[/QUOTE]

And the guys who do the sport fighting version of Krabi Krabong are light years ahead of the guys who do the pretend version.

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[QUOTE=Knifefighter;1049001]Because you have clueless kung fu “sifus” like that moonymantis guy who claim to have studied kung fu for 40 years coming here telling people they are not supposed to drop their arm when kicking.[/QUOTE]

why do you deliberately target individuals in your gripes?

there’s a whole crapload of kicks that keep the hands up.

thai cutting kick is pretty strong kick. they train the crap out of it.

the one kick practiced 10,000 times so to speak really does apply to MT practice.

It’s foolish to not respect the MT kicking training or methods. I know a couple fo guys that have feet that are faster than some peoples hands. They train Muay Thai and they are lightweight guys who on occasion enter a bout or two.

But, I also know a kung fu guy who teaches that has wicked kicks and training for them and he’s not MT at all.

then I know quite a few standard kickboxer guys that have awesome leg control and power too.

But like you, if you cannot relate something to your experience, you are going to question it.

Time changes everything.

You claim to have years of training and experience and yet find it difficult to be civil a lot of the time. That means that you haven’t learned a lot about how to relate with others well and you are narrowing your own ability to pick up on something useful yourself.

a wise man can learn more from a fool than the other way around in other words. :slight_smile:

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I was uust about to say the same thing David j

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edit: waiting for CMA people to tell me something wrong with these kicks.

because a lot of them wouldn’t know a real kick


dragon, for what reason must you feel the need post soemthing adn then automatically attack adn put down Kung fu?

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[QUOTE=Knifefighter;1049004]And the guys who do the sport fighting version of Krabi Krabong are light years ahead of the guys who do the pretend version.[/QUOTE]

There are extremely few practitioners of actual krabi krabong. Even in Thailand itself it’s a rarity.

there’s a sport version of krabi krabong? I’d like to see that.

sword fighting for real? cooool! lol

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is there even such a thing? i searched youtube for krabi krabong but it only turned up demos.

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[QUOTE=SPJ;1048999]a kick is just a kick[/QUOTE]
No it’s not. A kick is just a kick only to the uninitiated. Like all human performance activities, the experienced person knows there are many differences in any technique.

  1. accuracy and speed are important, too

Yes they are, but power is probably most important in unarmed combat.

shaolin has 64 or 88 leg method or kicking methods

how many methods in thai kicks?

of methods is completely irrelevant.

  1. tactics and strategy

what are in thai kicks?

Much deeper understanding of tactics and strategy than kicks that come from systems that don’t compete.

  1. power is enough to do the job, no need to persue more and more power in the kicks

Really?? Does someone actually think this?

4 how to defend against kicks?-

Thai defenses to kicks are unparalleled.

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[QUOTE=SPJ;1048999]a kick is just a kick

a kick is not just a kick (tactics and strategy, opening–)

a kick is just a kick.

  1. accuracy and speed are important, too

power wise, only need sufficient or enough, since you are kicking the soft spots, such as temple, ribside, abdomen, groin, chin, knee shin —

low kick, crescent kick, axe kick, side kick, point kick—

shaolin has 64 or 88 leg method or kicking methods

how many methods in thai kicks?

  1. tactics and strategy

what are in thai kicks?

  1. power is enough to do the job, no need to persue more and more power in the kicks

use a iron rod or a weapon, your leg is stronger than an iron rod?

hwat are weapon training in thai way?

4 how to defend against kicks?

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I would rather know 4 or 5 good, powerful kicks that work than 64 flashy kicks that dont. Quantity is not always quality.

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dragon, for what reason must you feel the need post soemthing adn then automatically attack adn put down Kung fu?

not an attack, it’s a factual statement. I’ve seen plenty of kung fu schools that couldn’t kick worth there weight.

honestly, have you been to many other schools?

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[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1049007]why do you deliberately target individuals in your gripes?[/QUOTE]
LOL… before, you were giving people a hard time for generalizing. Make up your mind. Are you going to be giving people a hard time for generalizing about kung fu or are you going to give them a hard time about talking about specific instances?

Try to at least be consistent with your clueless b.s.

there’s a whole crapload of kicks that keep the hands up.

Most kicks against resisting opponents require one to drop a hand for counterbalancing and developing power. Of course, systems or people that don’t fight and compete regularly haven’t figured this out.

You claim to have years of training and experience and yet find it difficult to be civil a lot of the time. That means that you haven’t learned a lot about how to relate with others well and you are narrowing your own ability to pick up on something useful yourself.

a wise man can learn more from a fool than the other way around in other words. :slight_smile:

With experience comes the ability to spot bullcr@p.

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[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1049009]There are extremely few practitioners of actual krabi krabong. Even in Thailand itself it’s a rarity.

there’s a sport version of krabi krabong? I’d like to see that.

sword fighting for real? cooool! lol[/QUOTE]

It’s done with sticks.