Women's Kickboxing: Stepping Side Kick

Series Summary

A generic term for the martial art sport, “kickboxing” is practiced for fitness and as a full-contact sport. There are many different types of kick boxing, varying from country to country. Each kind involves different types of strikes, but all are based on the kicking style. Some styles involve strikes with the arms, knees and elbows. While most styles do not allow shoes to be worn by the kickboxer, the French style of kickboxing, Savate, does allow the use of shoes. The Japanese style of kickboxing (called shoot-boxing) allows throwing and submission of the opponents. Adithada, the Indian style, allows knee, elbow and forehead strikes. Learn kickboxing kicks for women's kickboxing in this free martial arts video series featuring third-degree blackbelt and kickboxing champion Linda Josefson. Josefson demonstrates how to do a stepping side kick, hopping side kick, and flying side kick. She will also teach how to do a stepping hook kick, hopping hook kick, spinning hook kick, and jump spinning hook kick. Additionally, learn from this kickboxing champion how to do a crescent kick, hopping crescent kick, stepping axe kick, hopping axe kick, flying axe kick, thrusting knee strike and roundhouse knee strike.

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Linda Josefson, and we're going to move on to learning some basic kicks, and some more advanced kicks and starting with the stepping side kick. It's one of the hardest kicks to do in martial arts, requiring a lot of balance and also using the right muscle groups and the right foot positioning. Which a lot of people have a hard time with. So we're going to get into that side stance, hands are up you want to protect your rib cage. You want to protect your face, your vital organs. Okay, this is called a horse stance, this is how it's started. Now we're going to cover some distance, this bag right here is going to be our opponent for today. Back leg got to move in, we're going to set ourselves up, okay. Very important, you stick your butt out for this kick so you don't hurt anything, and you don't also to get the most power out of it. You want to use the right muscles, okay. Now as I step I want to keep my legs bent, I should be able to bring up that left leg with no problem. So you can see that all my body weight is on the right leg. Shoulders should be up, I want to be able to see my opponent, I can’t look anywhere else while I'm kicking, okay. Now the knee got to come up to the side, okay. This is where I get my momentum from, that full range of motion traveling from my chest, straight into the bag with that heel, bringing the kick back, back to original position. Okay that’s a lot to do when you first start out so be patient, and do it over and over many repetitions until you get it right. Okay, one more time. I want to step, turn that butt, shoulders up. Look at the target, make sure that you have most of your body weight on that right leg. Knee comes up, it thrust through over to the bag. Look at my foot positioning, toes are slightly down, heels goes into the target. If you turn your toe this way, it means you're using you hip flexor, you're going to get hurt. You're not using the proper glut muscle. Pull it back, one more time. We're going to speed it up a little bit, I'm stepping into the bag. Step, kick, pull it back, come back to position, okay. One more time, step, kick, pull it back, and back to position. This is our step and kick. I'm going to do it one more time, and I'm going to add full speed to it. Okay, here we go. Step, kick, and come back. Next we're adding a hop, hopping side kick."