How to Do a Body Shot in Kickboxing

Kickboxing is fast becoming the new fitness craze of the future. Advanced kickboxing can transform your body and mind, give you an intense, challenging workout, reduce stress and help you lose weight. Body shots are usually used in sparring, but can be practiced on a heavy bag. With these few simple steps, you're on the way to perfecting the body shot.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

1. Assume the correct body stance by keeping the stronger hand behind the weaker one, and close to your face. Keep your chin down. Maintain the weight of your body evenly balanced on both feet. Put your left foot forward, if you're right handed, or right foot forward, if you're left handed. Keep the body erect and maintain a safe distance from the heavy bag or your opponent.

2. Hit into the body or the heavy bag using full-powered strikes below the chin and above the waist.

3. Use any punch combination, but don't forget about your blocks. When you're throwing punch combinations to the body, bob and weave between combinations and punches. Add more hook punches to your combination for more effectiveness.

4. Pivot on those punches and come into the body or the bag at an angle to deliver powerful body shots. Keep the elbow inside the frame of the body for greater impact.

5. Once you're comfortable with your combinations, and you know how to block and deliver body shots, add kicks. Head shots are off limits in body contact sparring, so don't worry about getting knocked out. Once you're comfortable with body shots to the bag, you're ready to move into the ring.

Tips & Warnings

• Assume the proper kickboxing stance to ensure proper technique and powerful delivery. Remember to bob and weave between combinations, pivot the feet, come in at an angle and drop the elbow. When sparring with a partner, always wear protective head gear and gloves.
• Don't spar with a partner, until you're comfortable with your punch combinations. Remember, the head is off-limits in body shots.

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