Originally Posted by
gunbeatskroty
Is it what these guys are or closely a resemblance to Northern K-F?
http://www.dennisbrownshaolin.com/
This "donkey kick", is it turning 180 deg and kicking straight with the rear heel up and toes pointed down targeting the body....w/o looking at the target? TKD calls this the Ox Kick or something. I like this kick too... and get the most power out of such kicks. A little different than the spinning back kick.
This is it right here.
The donkey kick I was referring to is a low kick where you chamber, than using the heel you throw inverted towards the shin, can be used offensively for that or to stop a kick. Bruce Lee made it famous and uses it in a lot of movies, it may be called something else in other styles but in Pai Lum, the style I studied, we called it a donkey kick. Never saw it used in Karate, not saying there isn't a style that does not, but I have seen it in Judo and Shuai Jiao as a great way to knock someone's balance, particularly from a jacket or lapel grap.
Never heard of the Ox Kick but TKD has tons of kicks and different variations so I'll have to check that out. TKD is another style that takes a lot of flack but when trained right with boxing or good hand I've seen full contact fighters with a TKD background that are wicked.
This is a clip of me doing Side Thrust Kick a while back, how we always trained this kick was to hit with the heel, rolling the hips over for power, and to retract quickly as to not get the leg trapped and to be able to have the leg up for defense (check) and to throw out another kick quickly if needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rirg2kanZd4
I have always preferred this method than the side snap kick, which is in our style and practiced as well, but I don't feel personally that it is as applicable a technique.
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