Performing the Roundhouse Kick in Kempo Karate

Video Transcript

"There's two ways to do it like I said, there's so many variations on a roundhouse kick. You'll see different styles of karate like the kick either with the front foot. So if you're in a fighting stance, you kick with the front foot or with the back foot. You can even, you know, add a jump to it or whatever. You can kick high. You can almost kick at an angle. You can kick low and around, like a sweep depending on if you're doing like myotai or kyokushin. Or you can just have your basic roundhouse, bam, like so. I love this kick because it's easy. It's easy to use it in a situation like if I could have a target, I could show you. Okay so, big, tall guy right? So he throws a punch at my face. Boom, he hit him in the ribs. Alternatively if you're standing in the southpaw stance and he's standing in the same thing and he throws the same technique, boom. You can hit him in the groin, you can also hit to the head. This is the kind of kick that you can actually, although he's really tall, you have to really reach with it. But this is the kind of kick, if you hold his hand up about like right there, open hand. You can actually reach with the kick and you can knock somebody out that way. Especially if you hit them in the side of the neck or the side of the head. Thanks. So that's a roundhouse kick. Most spectacular looking basic kick. Next I'll show you just a few variations, these are more advanced kicks, but on like some jumps and spinning kind of kicks."