{"id":565,"date":"2007-06-18T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2007-06-18T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T02:20:00","slug":"flying-kicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/flying-kicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Kicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First let me say that I am not a big fan of flying kicks.  I say this for several reasons, first, I am white and as such can&#8217;t jump, \ud83d\ude09 second, when you are in the air&#8230;flying&#8230;your feet are not on the ground which means that unless your aim is true you are vulnerable to the forces of physics (vectors, study them!).  However a flying kick that is executed correctly is a thing of beauty!<br \/>\nThere are several components to a flying kick that are crucial.  I am going to use the following two photos someone found and sent me to illustrate a few points about flying kicks.  (<em>I&#8217;ve blurred out the faces since I wasn&#8217;t sure who these belonged to.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>In this first photo we see an attempt at a flying kick&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/blog\/media\/1\/20070617-flyingkick1.jpg\" alt=\"attempted flying kick\" height=\"598\" width=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>Let&#8217;s examine what is &#8220;wrong&#8221; with this persons kick.<\/p>\n<li>She is leaning her upper body forward<\/li>\n<li>Her back\/bottom leg is hanging<\/li>\n<li>all of her motion &amp; force is up<\/li>\n<li>Her face is forward and her hand are to the side (you can see the attempt at forward motion)<\/li>\n<li>her knee is locked<\/li>\n<li>She is kicking with the full bottom of her foot<\/li>\n<li>Her thumbs are incorrectly placed on her fists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This first photo is a great picture because it shows a person who appears to have had no training attempting to perform a flying kick.  Given an apparent lack of training it is impressive that her arms are in a slightly defensive position.<br \/>\nThis next photo is a significant improvement over the last.  Here we see much better form&#8230;let&#8217;s take a look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In this photo we see a fair well executed flying front kick&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/blog\/media\/1\/20070617-flyingkick2.jpg\" alt=\"Flying Front Kick\" height=\"410\" width=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>Let&#8217;s examine what is right and wrong with this kick:<\/p>\n<li>Right: Bottom foot perfectly tucked<\/li>\n<li>Right: Hips\/body tilted to allow proper kick execution<\/li>\n<li>Right: Foot slightly extended, though the ball of the foot should be extended further<\/li>\n<li>Right: Her torso is not forward<\/li>\n<li>Wrong: Her back arm is tucked correctly but it is sticking out to the side<\/li>\n<li>Wrong: Her front arm is upside down, out to the side and the elbow is locked<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall a great kick (ignoring the arms).<\/p>\n<p>One neat thing to notice in both of these photos is the sand\/water that is flying through the air.  In the captured sand\/water you can clearly see the direction and motion of the kick leading up to the captured moment.  Take a look at these study them and comment if your own assessment or if you agree or disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First let me say that I am not a big fan of flying kicks. I say this for several reasons, first, I am white and as such can&#8217;t jump, \ud83d\ude09 second, when you are in the air&#8230;flying&#8230;your feet are not on the ground which means that unless your aim is true you are vulnerable to<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/flying-kicks\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}