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Step 1
Start in a balanced fighting stance with your weight even distributed over both feet. Kick one leg back and stay light on your feet. Shifting your weight onto your front foot, bring your back leg up and around the side. Lead with your knee and keep your kicking foot high, almost horizontal to your knee.
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Step 2
Extend your leg with a snap towards your target, making impact with either your instep or the balls of your feet. If you use the balls of your feet, keep your toes back.
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Step 3
Generate power by snapping your foot back into a bent knee position quickly. This retraction increases speed and impact. The Kung Fu crescent kick is a momentum kick that needs a fast movement towards the target.
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Step 4
Plant your kicking foot forward after you execute the kick. The roundhouse kick finishes with momentum traveling forward.
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Step 1
Stand with your kicking foot back again. Balance your body on the balls of your feet and stay light on your toes.
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Step 2
Shift your weight quickly forward on your front foot and bring your kicking leg straight forward, knee bent as you move quickly forward.
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Step 3
Pointing at your intended target with your knee, swing your foot up and slightly out to the side in an upward arch (the crescent) and allow it to circle high as it moves towards the inside of your body.
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Step 4
Make impact with your inside ankle and instep area. This is a momentum kick, designed to throw off your opponent by the slight outward swing at the onset, then redirecting inwards. It is not a power kick, but you can generate more impact by building your momentum and snapping at the highest point of the kick.
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Step 5
Plant forward after the kick. Remember that your momentum is constantly shifting to the front as you execute a crescent kick.
