Women's Kickboxing: Hopping Roundhouse Kick

Video Transcript

"O.k. we're moving on to the little bit more advanced out of the round house kicks; we're going to add a hop to it, we just did the stepping; O.k. I'll go over that stepping kick one more time; step, kick; come back o.k. that was the foot work. Now instead of stepping we're just adding a little hop o.k.; it's really the same kick so you do that, take the back leg move it in toward the front leg and come back. Just add that little hop so you go to get a little air and get off the ground even if it's just one or two inches o.k. so one more time; keep your eyes on the bag, make sure your feet are solid; o.k. we focus on that target and we do that little hop, kick it; come back to your position, make sure your eyes stay on that target until you're done o.k. Next kick; back leg round house kick. O.k. now what we want to emphasize on these kicks; to keep the balance and keep your balance centered is to lean back away from that opponent as you step into it. Also you don't want to have the shoulder too far back or to far forward because now you're using your lower back o.k. so we want to keep that shoulder up and really lean; now you should feel like you can pick that front leg up and stand there, that means you have all the weight on the back; on the back leg as you step in. So one more time; make sure as you hop into that, that you lean and keep that body positioning threw out that whole kick; come back o.k. So that's how the body moves; it moves away from the target as you jump."