Martial Arts Swinging Side Kick Warm Up

Video Transcript

"So he is now going to be demonstrating a sort of a swing to the side. The important thing to remember about this is that you are going to be attacking the groin muscle with this swing a little. So it is going to be really important that when you first start this kind of stretching that you are very careful with it. Because if your groin muscles aren't used to it, you just want to make sure that you don't strain them at all. So, he is going to put his hand out to be a target for his kick. And he is just going to swing his leg up straight. He is going to start off easy at first. He is going to bring it up, tap and come back down again. It is important to start with your goal to be low and then kind of work your way higher and higher depending on what you feel like you can do. So go ahead keep going. And, as we did for our front kicks, you would do about a set of fifteen. And you are asking a weaker muscle group, the muscles on the sides, to lift the leg in a more difficult position. So we are going to abbreviate this a little bit. Going to go other side. So we are assuming he did fifteen. Again. And just swinging the leg up. And again these are, this is slightly more natural way to employ the muscles like you would really employ them for doing real side kicks in the street. Me personally, I usually try to do three sets of these. Sometimes if I need to, I'll switch back and forth between the front kicks and sidekicks. Sometimes I will stick with one for awhile. The next one he is going to do, going ahead and turn sideways, is he has to stretch out the quads and muscles on the front of the legs. So what he is going to do is he is going to step his right foot forward and then he is going to swing his leg back, trying to kick himself in the rear end with his heel. Go ahead. When he does, he is going to arch his back a little bit as he does this swing. He is trying to get a good stretch out of this leg swing. Each time, trying to get the knee far behind the hip. Good. Switch. And go. Swing it back, kick the foot up. Good. Notice the whole time, he is relaxed. So if you are doing this in the morning, it is not too difficult to do if you are a little bit tire, your muscles are a little bit tight. And again, if you choose to try to do these and mix them up, front kick, side kick, sort of back swing right here, you can do that if you like to mix it up a little bit. Me, personally, a lot of times, I will keep it all together. And when you have blended all these things together, then it tends to be a pretty good warm up because you are taking this limb and you are swinging it all over the place."