Spinning Hook Kick in Tang Soo Do Martial Arts

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Kelly at South Florida Tang Soo Do in Hollywood, Florida at Muse Art. We’re going to show you a classic Tang Soo Do technique, the hook kick. Korean styles are known for their high kicks and you’ve done concentration kicks on the wall on a regular kick and now you’re going to learn how to spin. The spinning techniques look like this, where I spin all the way around, I add the regular strength of my kick to the momentum, the angular momentum of a spin, but to break it down, it’s really pretty simple. A spin broken down is really just turning and then going back to the original kick that you already learned. So again, I turn, I focus on a spot on the wall so I don’t get dizzy, just like in ballet and then go back to the regular kick. When I put it all together with no break in it, it has lots of angular momentum which gives you more power. I would like to be able to spin on the ball of my foot, not heel-toe, heel-toe, but stay on the ball of your foot just like that. And pushing off, nice fast spin, flipping your head around and there you have it. "