Hi, my name is Dan Schmidt from the Chinese Martial Arts Center and today we're going to be showing you the proper way to perform a Rolling Side Kick. So from a starting position, we're going to go straight into our roll. Now when you do the roll, you want to try to fall on this part of your body, okay, the side and back of the arm and along the upper back, along the shoulders. And you want to tuck your chin in to avoid smacking your head. Okay, as you roll, you land with the Side Kick, and you want to slap the hands out to break your fall. Okay, so again. So you start from the fighting position. You go down into the roll and immediately kick. Okay. And if you notice in the kick, the foot is in a straight line, from the foot straight down to the hip. Okay, that way you get the proper power, the whole length of the leg. Now how you use this kick, you can use it either as a defense or as an attack. Okay, as an attack, I could just, he come on and attacked me, so we're here we're fighting, but I'm far away, so he can roll straight in and kick. See the kick can go anywhere, go to the stomach, go to my hip to make me fall or you can go straight to the ribs. Okay, he can use that as an attack combined with a fake. So he could fake me like he's going to punch high then roll straight into it. So he punches high, I go to block, then he rolls, then kick straight at me. That's the proper way to perform a Rolling Side Kick.
