What is a Tornado Kick?

Series Summary

Martial arts is a sport that involves a sequence of movements and exercises that require strength and flexibility. Typical martial arts moves include punches, kicks, rolls, tucks, somersaults, flips, and other acrobatic maneuvers. Competitive martial arts, like those in the Olympics, take a lot of dedication and practice. There are many types of martial arts but the farther one advances in any of them the more acrobatic moves they learn.

In this series of videos, you will learn more about martial arts and how to do a tornado kick. Our expert teaches you different exercises and tips on how to do one correctly and safely. Get tips on doing the perfect tornado kick and other variations of one. It is important to learn beginning martial arts positions or stances first. You can also learn more advanced moves including eye-hand-coordination with your arms and legs. Get tips on warm-ups and stretches as well from our expert martial artist!

Video Transcript

"Today we are going to learn how to do the Tornado Kick. Some people also call this a jump inside kick, an inside 540, or any other variations. But basically what it is, is its two steps and then a kick with the right foot. And then the right foot comes up and over. That's why some people call it a jump inside kick and the right foot goes over like this. I'm just going to do a very simple one. That's what some people call the jump inside kick. Now there's obviously the focus on a big movements with the right leg and also with the left leg there is specific technical details that we need to know to place the part of our right and left leg. So let me show you another one from a different angle like so. We're also going to cover, landing on, doing the complete kick landing on one foot. I'll show you one right now. Like that. That's some of the these we're going to go over soon in today's segment."