How to Do a Roundhouse Kick

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Kyle Reese we are here at the Arizona Center of Mixed Martial Arts on behalf of expertvillage.com today we are going to look at the round house kick. Right here to demonstrate the round house kick we got Andrew Bridden he is a cage fighter slash Muay Thai fighter. We also have our head instructor for kick boxing here at the Arizona Center of Mixed Martial Arts Robert Garcia. Real quick Andrew is going to demonstrate a round house kick. Alright notice how Andrew kicks with his shin not with his foot. The chin is really hard bone & it provides a lot of protection for him and increases the damage on the kick as he throws it. You will notice when he throws a kick he base leg the bottom leg pivots. It puts him closer to the target and adds extra power to the kick. There is a couple of main areas of attack when you throwing a round house kick: One is the leg. This a incredibly powerful kick it is really going to damage the leg, it really limits the mobility of his opponent. As he starts to land these over and over again his opponent really going to stop being able to move around as well opening up for head shots. You could attack the ribs with this shot it is really going to suck the wind out of him. As you get hit on the body more and more as a fighter you really start getting tired. You also take this to the head which is going to be a huge knock out. Devastating. You could actually also kick the arms. Make the arms get tired. Bring them down. It's called breaking the shell. Right now Andrew is going to demonstrate a few hard round house kick for us. Alright and that is the round house kick. "