How to Kick & Fight with Your Knees

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Tres Tew. I'm an instructor at Yeshua's Ryu Martial Arts and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to be talking to you a little bit about open hand combat. Now we are going to talk about utilizing kicks and knees. Again, range from kick to knee varies, so keep that in mind. First, we've got the typical front kick (you can leave that down). What you are doing, you're pushing back with the heel of your foot and you are pushing back. This is to create distance. Most of your kicks are to create distance. If you can notice, punching range and then kicking range are considerably different. So, we've got several kicks. We've got the front kick, which pushes out. We've got the roundhouse kick to the legs. We've got the roundhouse kick to the head. We've also got side kicks to the knee. You can stomp the knee. Side kicks to the midsection, face, anything you want to do is there. Also, I don't recommend this, but if you are able to set it up, it's a very powerful kick. It's called the spin kick. You just jump up and bring it right across the face. It's kind of a whip kick. You are smashing it out there and pulling it back, so it is catching across the face. Also, we have knees. You're probably not going to be able to do many of these unless you do flying knees from a pretty good range. With a flying knee, you are just jumping into it and pushing all the way through. Now, most knees are going to be for in the clinch, right here. What I'm doing, I'm taking and pulling down on his weight right here and just bringing my knee right up into it (either into the head or into the body-whichever one I want). I can do that with both knees. So, we've got flying knees from a distance. Clinch knees are also good for hammering the insides and outsides of the legs and the sides of heads. Whatever you want to do with kicks and knees, it's there. Just remember, kicking range and knee range is a little bit different. "