[I:http://sportsrealm.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/AlCase27.jpg]I learned this type of kick some forty years ago in the Kang Duk Won Korean Karate. This was the forerunner of Tae Kwon Do, and the unfortunate truth is that these kicks aren’t practiced anymore. Why, I don’t know, because this type of kick is the hardest kick, the fastest kick I know.
I call this move, no matter what type of martial art you do it with, the pop kick. Whether you do a wheel, a side, or a snap, the basic principle doesn’t change. You replace the left foot with the right foot, and place the right foot on the target…this all has to happen simultaneously.
By same time I mean that the right foot and the left foot begin motion at the same time, and the left foot hits the ground at the same time the right foot hits the target. By doing it in this fashion the whole body compacts at the same time, then the whole body expands at the same time. This causes a very pure explosion in the tan tien, which is a point a couple of inches below the navel, which is the energy generator for the body.
In addition to the purity of explosion you will feel in the energy center, you will experience a sudden weight on your standing leg at the same moment you experience weight in the leg you are kicking with. This sudden increase of weight tends to make the explosion of energy very efficient, even as it increases the violence. This will really increase the power of your kick.
If you are doing this technique with a snap kick, make sure you get the knee high enough so that the foot comes in straight, and doesn’t slide up the front of the target. If you are doing a side kick, make sure you turn the hips so that the weight of them really slams into the target. If you are doing a wheel kick, make sure you get the hips up high enough so that the kick can fly in truly horizontal.
The fourth technique would be a spin pop to the rear, and uses the side kick. You would practice all four kicks against a wall, learning how to lift legs simultaneously, and place the feet on the wall and the ground at the same time. You don’t have to hit the wall with power, save that for a bag, control will actually give you more power in the end.
We used to have all kinds of entry moves for these tricks. We would slap the attacker’s lead hand as we angled our stance, and the we would do it subtle, and then be in the kick before the target knew what we were doing. A little practice and the explosion would get finer and more pure and more full of energy.
Make sure you practice this kick in a variety of stances, and you will have a much larger bag of martial arts weapons. This is a great technique to practice, and it is the result of karate power and TKD kicks. Korean martial arts or Japanese martial arts, this is the hardest kick, and the fastest kick, and perhaps the most effective leg technique I know.
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