Kicks

[midn1ght]

Hey Joe and the other Mauy Thai guys
I am looking for some good exersises for improving my kicks, websites ect will help I am not with a club at the moment ,at the same time anyone know a good MMA club in Joburg South Africa

Yes spanky I have moved but still have uncledaddy and unclecousin in Georgia so be carefull the both have a bronco and a couple of shot guns and a few dogs and more cousins

[Szczepankiewicz]

Everyone in Georgia is a cousin, yeah?

That's why Bitty wants to immigrate.

Would that be like "emigrate"?

Tut tut tut. Didn't Momma give you spelling lessons after you married her?

[Szczepankiewicz]

My apologies. Bitty wants to emigrate and experience some relative humidity....

[darrianation]

Well, I can tell you some of things I’ve done. Just some that I can think of right now.

Develop leg strength (but don’t get too carried away).

Weight lifting to develop leg strength.
1) squats.
2) Lunges
Other thing I do are to use ankle weights (not to heavy ) I use 2.5 lbs. And do slow controlled strait leg kicks (don’t snap these kicks; you can injure your joints. I’ll do 30- 50 to the side, to the front and knee strikes- remember slow and controlled. Pause at the end of the kick. There are many others, but this is what I do. Be creative and come up with some of your own.

Practice your kicks doing them as high as you can (after warming up and stretching of course). Do this several times 20, 30, 50, etc. If you can kick high then you can kick strong to the body, legs, etc.

The heavy bag! Love the heavy bag. Do each of the kicks in your arsenal very fast (quick) snap them. Do at least 30 times but more if you’re in good shape, and or have the time. Then do them as hard as you can. Some guys do 200- 300 hundred kicks. I could and did when I was seventeen. Now I just do a hundred. I do them strong though. Also swing the bag away from you and kick it as it swings back towards you.

Drills gee there are so many. One I like is have someone hold a focus mitt or thai pads. I like the mitts cuz’ it’s a harder target (hard on the holder though), (small target good for accuracy). Don’t worry about power concentrate on speed. After you have you’re targeting down have the holder stand just out of range. Have him move in and the second he gets in range fire your kicks. This is best done with round kicks. Also can be done with thai pads or shield For teeps. Here’s another one. Have your holder hold a Shield or thai pads. Set up just at range. You throw a kick. The holder when he see you kick he tries to get out of the way. If he is able to get out of the way Then he tells you what he saw. You try to not make the same mistake (telegraphing).

The best thing I can think of is when you sparring tell your partner you just want to do a round of just kicks. Anoter one- before you spar pick a kick you want to work on. For example Left inside low kick. Tell your self you are going to throw this kick 10 times per round (more if you want.).While sparring practice deferent ways of disguising your kick. Jab first, use offensively, defensively with combos. After the first round your partner will pick up on this and begin to counter it. You have to get better at disguising it.

This stuff is just off the top of my head. I’m sure other guys here may have some good ones too.

Hope this helps some.

[midn1ght]

Thanx for that darrianation

[dkm]

darrianation has great posts.