Kicks are one of the best weapons you can develop. Not only are kicks cardio intensive, giving an instant sweat during a work out, but they are one of the best weapons you can have. After all, most people don't know how to use their legs, and if you do, instant advantage.
Of course, kicks take a little extra hard work if they are going to be great. But if you take your time and do learn the types of kicks in a certain pattern...you can have power busting kicks of the first magnitude. That said, let's go over the proper order of kicks.
The first kick is merely standing and doing the kick. You don't have to have a stance, you can even put your hand on the wall, and do them at a moderate and easy on the body speed. The idea here is to look at your body examine how it has to move to generate efficient and effective kicks.
The second kick is going to be done while standing in stances. Take a kick like a simple front snap kick, low level to begin, and learn how to apply it from the rear leg while standing in a front stance. Go through all your stances, one by one, kicking with the foot you are not standing on.
The third kick is to use the weight leg of your stance for the kick. This means you kick with the leg supporting the most weight in the stance. Again, go through your stances, do them one at a time, but this time figure out how to hop so that the leg you do not have weight on replaces the leg you are standing on, and the leg you are standing on executes the kick.
The fourth kick is to explore the direction you are kicking in. This is going to require some quick contortions of the body. Simply do the third kick, described in the last paragraph, but this time kick first north, then set up and do the kick to the west, then the east, then the south.
Now, there are a few things you should remember as you develop your kicks through these four stages. Don't be one of these people who do a few kicks per side and then quit. Do a couple of hundred kicks, three hundred, maybe even five hundred kicks per kick per leg.
The idea is to make your legs as agile as your hands. So practice your kicks and learn how to do a lot of relaxing. Soon your kicks will be light and easy, second nature, and able to end any fight with a mere flick.
Information:
Al Case has analyzed martial arts for forty years. You can read his book The Most Powerful Kick at Monster Martial Arts.
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