Post by thingy on Jun 23, 2005 13:40:12 GMT
I agree, it's pretty established within this thread that the techniques are flashy and are best viewed as that. No-one is arguing that.
I on occasions jump to speed up a kick. You may not be routed to the ground but jumping kicks are still powerful. If you're jumping for speed, it may be that you're sacrificing some power for some speed but this is something that happens throughout the techniques anyway.
I think there are 2 general misconceptions about jump kicks
1) The jump is a big jump-as-high-as-you-can affair
2) By "increasing range", this is taken to mean you can kick someone really far away by leaping at them.
Both of the above of course are true. I remember years ago someone telling me about a fight he'd been in where he'd jumped over a table/chair/something and kicked someone with his flying kick. Well done that man, a nice, classical use of a kick.
If you're going to use the jump to speed up the kick though, jumping as high as you can will usually slow the whole affair down. I think that an inch or so in the air is enough, you can jump this high without really having to use your knees, just bouncing from your toes will get you there and so you don't have to go through the whole bending your knees first thing.
Increasing range works in two ways, you can kick someone really far away by leaping at them, as is the way it's most commonly viewed. Or you can, for instance throw a rear leg roundhouse to the person when you're actually too close to do that if you were to stay on the ground. It doesn't mean jumping backwards, it means just staying where you are, rotating around a point that runs down the centre of your body. It's the equivalent of being in a right foot forward fighting stance, and then, staying on the same spot you switch your feet around so the left foot is forward, and then afterwards you throw a front leg roundhouse - but all of this happens in one motion. Doing this means you have opened up the possibility of another technique, and you get the benefit of taking the oomph of a rear foot kick but at a front leg kick kind of range.
I on occasions jump to speed up a kick. You may not be routed to the ground but jumping kicks are still powerful. If you're jumping for speed, it may be that you're sacrificing some power for some speed but this is something that happens throughout the techniques anyway.
I think there are 2 general misconceptions about jump kicks
1) The jump is a big jump-as-high-as-you-can affair
2) By "increasing range", this is taken to mean you can kick someone really far away by leaping at them.
Both of the above of course are true. I remember years ago someone telling me about a fight he'd been in where he'd jumped over a table/chair/something and kicked someone with his flying kick. Well done that man, a nice, classical use of a kick.
If you're going to use the jump to speed up the kick though, jumping as high as you can will usually slow the whole affair down. I think that an inch or so in the air is enough, you can jump this high without really having to use your knees, just bouncing from your toes will get you there and so you don't have to go through the whole bending your knees first thing.
Increasing range works in two ways, you can kick someone really far away by leaping at them, as is the way it's most commonly viewed. Or you can, for instance throw a rear leg roundhouse to the person when you're actually too close to do that if you were to stay on the ground. It doesn't mean jumping backwards, it means just staying where you are, rotating around a point that runs down the centre of your body. It's the equivalent of being in a right foot forward fighting stance, and then, staying on the same spot you switch your feet around so the left foot is forward, and then afterwards you throw a front leg roundhouse - but all of this happens in one motion. Doing this means you have opened up the possibility of another technique, and you get the benefit of taking the oomph of a rear foot kick but at a front leg kick kind of range.
