Why does it take a long time to execute? You mean it takes YOU a long time? Because I can pull this kick off very fast. My advice to anyone that can't do any given technique lightning fast should just not use that technique period.
The worst injury in my school was from an axe kick. 2 of my redbelts were going at it and one of them brought an axe kick down with absolutely no control on the face of his opponent. His opponent was very stocky so he didn't move away from the kick but rather took the full brunt of it and his face around his eye swelled up like a balloon and turned an ugly purple within a minute. He went to the hospital and they told him his cheek bone was cracked but that they couldn't really do anything about it and that it would heal fine.... a couple of weeks later he noticed his eye was sinking into his head so he went back and got surgey to have a plate put into his face to hold his head together.
That sucked.
I've seen this kick on TV used in pro Muay Thai matches in North America to good effect.
My friend got into a fight outside a bar and used this kick on the back of someones head when they were bent over from getting hit in the gut a second earlier, knocked him right out.
The only reason I like this kick is it is hard to read so often gets to it's target without being blocked.
Damian Mavis
Honour TKD
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