How to Side Kick in Cardio Kickboxing

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Part of the video series: Cardio Kickboxing Exercises & Tips

Summary: How to side kick in cardio kickboxing in this free martial arts video from our Martial Arts expert Chemin Alldredge.

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By Chemin Alldredge
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Chemin Alldredge is 24, and she has just recently earned her 3rd degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. She is a certified instructor, and she owns her own Martial Arts Studio. She has been...read more

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joesteph said

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on 8/2/2008 I remember when I took Taekwondo when I was younger that the step side kick had the stepping leg land in front of the kicking leg, then the kicking leg rose up to a srike with the blade of the foot. The text by the grandmaster had photos of doing it exactly that way of stepping, so I wasn't being shown an unapproved way. In Soo Bahk Do, the way is as Chemin does, stepping behind, and it appears that the flat of the foot is striking, but it's really using the heel for concentrated impact. It was easy to drop using the blade of the foot, but it takes practice to put the power into the heel. I did notice that Chemin raises her kicking leg much as I tend to do, almost roundhouse-prep, although she hits the target ("BOB"--an d there's a new one that has more torso/below the wqaist) just right. My instructor emphasizes a more "hanging" lower leg when the kicking leg is raised, which I've seen in photos and on other videos. I'm wondering, though, if that's more of the approved form in practice than what happens for speed in free sparring or a real situation.

joesteph said

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on 8/2/2008 What's with the word "and"? This happened twice.

joesteph said

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on 8/2/2008 Oops! Pardon my typos! What's in parentheses should read, ("BOB"--an d there's a new one that has more torso/below the waist).

Video Transcript

"My name is Chemin Alldredge. I'm a 2nd degree Black Belt in Tae Kwan Do. I'm here with Expert Village and today we'll be going over beginner cardio kickboxing. Alright, now we're going to go ahead and work on our side kicks. This is the second kick out of our 3 kicks. First we learned the front kick, now the side kick. What we are going to do is we are going to be hitting the Bob right here in the stomach area again. We are going to be hitting with the heel of your foot. Your heel is a very powerful part of your body, so you want to make sure you execute that heel into it. This a 4 count kick. It's going to be 1,2,3,4 and then up. 1,2,3,4. Guard's always up. We want to make sure that our other foot is pivot. We want to pivot the opposite way of our opponent so we want to make sure that that bottom foot is pivot to the opposite way of our Bob. We want to bring our foot up again 1,2,3,4. Good. You want to make sure that side kick tucked right in. This is going to work out your side and torso area. You might feel a little bit of a pinch. You can do 10 on each side. Alright. And then now we are going to put a little bit more power into this kick so if your opponent is a little bit farther away, you're going to take a step, take a step behind, bring that kick up and kick. In. Make sure you want to go ahead and keep your guards up. Now we're going to put power to it. So you're going to step, and bring it back in. Alright and we'll do one more. And bring it back in. And that is your side kick."