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Originally Posted by Tom Yum
I'd cut it down to maybe 6 different kicks and work on technique & speed, like what you are doing now so you can learn to throw them cold, hard and fast when you need them.
Are you also stretching? running? doing other conditioning stuff too. I'd also watch some of the phenomenal karate kickers, like Bill Wallace or even Bruce Lee's movies.
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Hey thanks Tom,
I'm sort of already doing that part about the 6 different kicks. What I mean is I only do 15-20 reps each leg except for the side kicks and roundhouse kicks. On those two kicks I do several hundred. I've stretched every single day for the last 12 years. {missing no more than one day if I'm fatigued or sick}. I don't run anymore because it aggravates my knees and lower back however I walk a lot of miles mostly for cardio to burn calories. I've read a lot of Bruce Lees training manuals and Bill Wallaces' "Dynamaic Kicking and Stretching" but no focus on the movies. Also, I have drills I do such as knee pitching, hold and retract and angle weight drills. The biggest asset for me is the warm up and cool down stretch on the day of the kicking practice. Because of my age and fear of burnout I only do this particular kicking drills 3 or 4 times a month. At other times I'm working the heavy bags for strikes, or the speed bag, or practicing ground work, or footwork for throws. Then other times I work my blocks on the wooden dummy.
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