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Post by andym on Jun 15, 2005 13:44:40 GMT
I have further to go than you though....  Plus I'm old!  |
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Post by Aefibird on Jun 15, 2005 14:15:34 GMT
I just feel old...
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Post by AngelaG on Jun 15, 2005 16:11:37 GMT
That's not a bad thing, I prefer dead arms to broken noses! ;D Who said anything about arms?? It's your knees I'm gunning for. ;D  |
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Post by Aefibird on Jun 16, 2005 16:57:47 GMT
Noo, noo, not the knees!!!! |
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Post by andym on Jun 16, 2005 17:52:56 GMT
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Post by AngelaG on Jun 16, 2005 18:35:50 GMT
Aww sorry! I feel bad now! |
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Post by andym on Jun 16, 2005 18:54:32 GMT
Good....you....you....meanie! |
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Post by AngelaG on Jun 16, 2005 18:57:10 GMT
OOh harsh!!
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Post by andym on Jun 16, 2005 18:59:48 GMT
Playground harshness is the best kind I find! ;D
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Post by Andy on Jun 17, 2005 14:00:42 GMT
High & flashy kicks can be good fun. In Wing Chun, all kicks are below the waist, but I've been involved in other systems where we practiced an assortment of jumping and spinning kicks. I was involved in a discussion a couple of years ago that concluded that kicking to the head was as much use as punching the ankle, but there are all kinds of exceptions to that. The only deaths I know of related to MA were both head kicks to an upright opponent. I'd personally rather put someone on the ground before kicking them in the head, it makes it a lot easier. I did have occasion to teach on a multi martial seminar last year. I damaged one of the JKD Instructors without touching him..... Just had him try a twisting kick. |
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Post by thingy on Jun 22, 2005 15:36:29 GMT
I too have had my fun in flashy kicks and highly enjoyable it was too. Jumping kicks, spinning kicks. Split kicks. I never managed anything like a 540 spinning kick though.
I've got it out of my system now and so I don't feel the need, and my focus has moved to more sensible territories, apart from the odd fling just to see if it still happens. I'm glad for my time doing it though, it obviously isn't going to win me any awards in credible martial arts but I'm not going to spend my life worrying about that.
So does anybody on here do jumping kicks for any reason? I mean do you see any benefit in the jump?
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Post by Andy on Jun 22, 2005 18:09:16 GMT
So does anybody on here do jumping kicks for any reason? I mean do you see any benefit in the jump? Sure. You reduce friction with the floor, increase range and options. See Bonjasky of K1, as an example of how effective a jump kick can be. There's the shock value too.  |
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Post by RDKI on Jun 22, 2005 18:30:08 GMT
If by reduce friction you mean have absolutely no power base or balance while opening up some of the most sensitive areas of the body then carry on jump kicking.
I personally think its a stupid thing to do.
Shock value??? for a jump kick to work pre-emptively (or at all for that reason come to think of it) you would need to be at a distance whereby you arent in any actual danger of being hit and are therefore not fighting, so what's the point???
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Post by AngelaG on Jun 22, 2005 18:57:22 GMT
I personally think its a stupid thing to do. I have to agree. For every person that can do it there will be 1,000,000 who will get chewed up and spat out. |
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Post by Andy on Jun 23, 2005 12:32:03 GMT
If by reduce friction you mean have absolutely no power base or balance while opening up some of the most sensitive areas of the body then carry on jump kicking. That's like saying a boxer has no power base when he's on his toes, or an axe will only cut if, at point of impact, it is only being held by one hand. I think we'd all already said in one form or another that high kicks etc were flashy. I think you're basing this on some polaroid of a TKD master flying through the air. Take a look at flying knees in Muay Thai, or the jumping back kick employed by some kick boxers, or particulalry Bonjasky in K1. You don't think finishing off a combination with an unexpected jumping kick would have shock value? media.skoopy.com/vids/vid_00533.wmv |
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