What do you do to make your kicks more powerful, faster and agile?
How do you train your kicks to make them better outside of wooden dummy and the tripod?
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What do you do to make your kicks more powerful, faster and agile?
How do you train your kicks to make them better outside of wooden dummy and the tripod?
The Flow is relentless like a raging ocean with crashing waves devasting anything in its path.
"Kick Like Thunder, Strike Like Lighting, Fist Hard as Stones."
"Wing Chun flows around overwhelming force and finds openings with its constant flow of forward energy."
"Always Attack, Be Aggressive always Attack first, Be Relentless. Continue with out ceasing. Flow Like Water, Move like the wind, Attack Like Fire. Consume and overwhelm your Adversary until he is No More"
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By the very nature of the Wing Chun kicks, you need only strengthen your legs. The stronger they are, the harder you can kick. Stair stepping, squats, things like that as you exercise.
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I practice ultra slow, form perfect kicking quite often. Makes for freaky power and speed....real....slow. Pray to Buddha three times.
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this cannot be stressed enough, imo. one method route you can take is like happy tiger mentions; as a beginner you wont have the flexibility or strength to kick, so you just do what you can, your strength and flex increase to the point of being physically capable of doing the kicks correctly, this will not take very long really. then its time to really start learning to kick. bring it back to square one, and practice correct proper form in slow motion. when you can execute all of your kicks slowly, and correctly, and ingrain proper mechanics, then start picking up speed, and adding power. but keep reviewing with slow motion.Originally Posted by Happy Tiger
I practice ultra slow, form perfect kicking quite often. Makes for freaky power and speed....real....slow. Pray to Buddha three times.
another method that works is to just refine refine refine from the very beginning and just work up to propper form, but the slow motion refinement, imo is a very powerful tool in any method to developing kicking power. ive seen people develop really powerful kicking using both methods.
one thing that can really help is to hold the kicking pads for your whole class. find the people that do each kick the strongest in your class, they likely wont be the same people for every kick. then get coaching from each person respectively on what works for them and the approach they took to developing that kick.
this is from a northern shaolin perspective, i dont really know what kicks or methods wing chun uses, but we have most all the kicks in northern styles.
for beginners having a bar or something to hold on to can help a lot until they have the strength and balance do have proper form without assistance.
a heavy bag is also a powerful tool to check your kicking power of course
Last edited by Lucas; 09-14-2012 at 05:33 PM.
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The more relaxed you are, the more powerful. Don't focus on the contact point, focus beyond. Keep them tight, large movements are easy to catch and easy to defend. Make them unpredictable.
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Kick the heavy bag. You can lift weights etc...but all that other mess is secondary to good form and learning to kick something that weighs more than you.
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It is the art of avoiding dangerous situations. It helps you to avoid a dangerous situation by not actually being there. So lets say there is a dangerous situation going on somewhere other than your couch. You are safely seated on your couch so you have in a nutshell "difused" the situation."
Wing Chun Fighter
good comments yall..thanks for sharing
The Flow is relentless like a raging ocean with crashing waves devasting anything in its path.
"Kick Like Thunder, Strike Like Lighting, Fist Hard as Stones."
"Wing Chun flows around overwhelming force and finds openings with its constant flow of forward energy."
"Always Attack, Be Aggressive always Attack first, Be Relentless. Continue with out ceasing. Flow Like Water, Move like the wind, Attack Like Fire. Consume and overwhelm your Adversary until he is No More"
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For wing chun kicks kicking a wall, tree, or other immobile object will improve your kicking. If there's recoil from bad structure You'll be able to fell it. If your structure is good you'll feel that too.
You need to start off slow though. If you kick too hard to start with you'll overtax the muscles and tendons in your feet and ankles.
Once you can kick an immobile object and your structure is good enough that there's no recoil you can work on kicking the heavy bag to get perfect centering on your kick.
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great post...i love it
The Flow is relentless like a raging ocean with crashing waves devasting anything in its path.
"Kick Like Thunder, Strike Like Lighting, Fist Hard as Stones."
"Wing Chun flows around overwhelming force and finds openings with its constant flow of forward energy."
"Always Attack, Be Aggressive always Attack first, Be Relentless. Continue with out ceasing. Flow Like Water, Move like the wind, Attack Like Fire. Consume and overwhelm your Adversary until he is No More"
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