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Old 05-30-2008, 02:38 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Heroic Wolf View Post
Are tornado kicks very useful for self-defense? You stay long enough in the air for an opponent to back off and throw a side kick/front kick to outreach ur tornado and knock u out of the air. So is tornado just good for showing off, building lower body agility to help with your other kicks, and teaching how to rotate bodyweight into one's kicks?
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They are great exercise and fun to do. There will always be stories of people who are good enough or lucky enough to get away with stuff like that but I wouldn't generally recommend it because it's too easy to get yourself into trouble.
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