Doing a Pushing Front Kick in Soo Bahk Do

Video Transcript

"Hello I am Geoff Sterling of Hollywood Soo Bahk Do and I am going to demonstrate a pushing front kick. So once again get in a very comfortable position. This also is going to involve the concepts of closed and open so I will come up this way closed; your body is very closed, your abdominal muscles are in and you are contracted. You are going to expand outward and you are going to push the opponent out of the way or whoever it is who is attacking you and instead of being closed again or retracting this time you are just kind of going to drop forward so this is more of a defensive technique, it is more of an offensive technique where you are striking a person and it is more like pushing somebody out of the way. Like say you are close to somebody you could literally grab on to them, get in close, get your foot underneath there, push them away and then come in here. The reason why you do that is say you are at a bar and you are walking down the street and this technique happens to be used to defend your life you are usually going to be wearing shoes you are not going to be barefoot so that is why you use your heel instead of your toe so a lot of times you do a front kick and you point your toes out this way, that is the way you have been trained to curl your toes back and that way you are hitting with the front part of your foot. So I am going to show you right now the heel of your foot and I am going to demonstrate it on the bag. Here is the profile shot, I am this way, here is the bag, you are going to come in closed again and this time with my heel, it is more of a push and then fall forward. I will show you that again at full speed and that right there is a front push kick."