What terrible advice. Not turning your hips over and driving upward rather than across is going to cause injuries to the planted knee. And you're losing a ton of power, especially as the kicks get higher and higher
You never should be driving across. Unless you are doing a karate/taekwondo kick. In that case you can do horizontal kicks since those are more for speed vs power.
Even if your background is different, you should try it before you knock it. I don't train leg or body kicks like these, I come from a self defense background not a kick boxing one, but this is very similar to how I would drive a knee. It's fast, direct and powerful.
@@4PillarsMMA hapkido, karate, and kickboxing. Every single one turns the hips over to avoid knee injuries. Even muy Thai turns the hips over. The main difference is origin and chambering between styles. For example, like you said about karate, it prioritizes speed, so the knee comes up into chamber, points at the target, and the hips turn over as the leg whips out. Muy Thai keeps the leg extended as it comes up, keeping the leg in line with the hips as they turn over. In every one, they turn over and you pivot on the ball of the planted foot to enable the hip drive. All that driving the hips and kick upward instead of across will do is result in glancing blows, or keep your hips, knees and ankles out of their strong alignment, putting undue strain on the tendons and ligaments.
This is more of a tell than simple switching or stepping with the back foot😂 youre never getting enough power on that shot anyway and if youre not using it as a power shot what is the point of that weight transfer that basically tells your opponent exactly what youre going to throw.
Take a front leg roundhouse to the inner thigh and you will feel the power. The point of this kick is that it is so close to the opponent’s body and has such a difficult to read tell that it lands most the time I throw it.
@4PillarsMMA the tell is so obvious. That's the problem when you drop your shoulder it becomes so obvious you're loading up on that side. A simple switch kick is more powerful, less obvious and can be done at any range because you can move back or forward on your switch. What level are the people you're landing this on? Unless you set it up by doing that load up movment and throwing something else to set up that kick I really cant see how it's more practical than a normal switch or step kick.
@@4PillarsMMA I understand you may be exaggerating the movment to help your students but it seems like to get power on that shot you need to load up too much, it makes it obvious what you'll throw.
Yes this class is pretty much day one students so I am not going to the furthest extent with this kick. I hide my step up kick when I am throwing a punch to hide the change of stance. I do a switch kick when I want power and they are just out of range. I throw this kick when I am in close and I need a quick pop to the thigh to end my combo. Yes it isn’t as powerful as a switch kick but not every move needs to be the most powerful. A lot of times, if you just whip them in point A then it allows you to break their rhythm just long enough to really drive in a power shot in point B.
@@4PillarsMMA fair enough I can see how throwing a straight can set you up in that position without a big tell. Cheers for not taking it personally that I ask questions about it. Alot of people in this sport take it to their ego when you question their techniques.
What terrible advice. Not turning your hips over and driving upward rather than across is going to cause injuries to the planted knee. And you're losing a ton of power, especially as the kicks get higher and higher
You never should be driving across. Unless you are doing a karate/taekwondo kick. In that case you can do horizontal kicks since those are more for speed vs power.
What is your martial arts background?
Even if your background is different, you should try it before you knock it. I don't train leg or body kicks like these, I come from a self defense background not a kick boxing one, but this is very similar to how I would drive a knee. It's fast, direct and powerful.
@@4PillarsMMA hapkido, karate, and kickboxing. Every single one turns the hips over to avoid knee injuries. Even muy Thai turns the hips over. The main difference is origin and chambering between styles. For example, like you said about karate, it prioritizes speed, so the knee comes up into chamber, points at the target, and the hips turn over as the leg whips out. Muy Thai keeps the leg extended as it comes up, keeping the leg in line with the hips as they turn over. In every one, they turn over and you pivot on the ball of the planted foot to enable the hip drive.
All that driving the hips and kick upward instead of across will do is result in glancing blows, or keep your hips, knees and ankles out of their strong alignment, putting undue strain on the tendons and ligaments.
@@overclucker for driving a knee of course you would drive the hips up and avoid turning them over. But for a kick it's different.
This is more of a tell than simple switching or stepping with the back foot😂 youre never getting enough power on that shot anyway and if youre not using it as a power shot what is the point of that weight transfer that basically tells your opponent exactly what youre going to throw.
Take a front leg roundhouse to the inner thigh and you will feel the power. The point of this kick is that it is so close to the opponent’s body and has such a difficult to read tell that it lands most the time I throw it.
@4PillarsMMA the tell is so obvious. That's the problem when you drop your shoulder it becomes so obvious you're loading up on that side.
A simple switch kick is more powerful, less obvious and can be done at any range because you can move back or forward on your switch.
What level are the people you're landing this on? Unless you set it up by doing that load up movment and throwing something else to set up that kick I really cant see how it's more practical than a normal switch or step kick.
@@4PillarsMMA I understand you may be exaggerating the movment to help your students but it seems like to get power on that shot you need to load up too much, it makes it obvious what you'll throw.
Yes this class is pretty much day one students so I am not going to the furthest extent with this kick. I hide my step up kick when I am throwing a punch to hide the change of stance.
I do a switch kick when I want power and they are just out of range.
I throw this kick when I am in close and I need a quick pop to the thigh to end my combo. Yes it isn’t as powerful as a switch kick but not every move needs to be the most powerful.
A lot of times, if you just whip them in point A then it allows you to break their rhythm just long enough to really drive in a power shot in point B.
@@4PillarsMMA fair enough I can see how throwing a straight can set you up in that position without a big tell.
Cheers for not taking it personally that I ask questions about it. Alot of people in this sport take it to their ego when you question their techniques.