Video: Cardio Kickboxing Basic Kicks

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Some cardio kickboxing basic kicks are the snap kick, hook kick and crescent kick and should be done with arms up and elbows in. Try cardio kickboxing kicks with tips from a kickboxing instructor in this free video on cardio kickboxing workouts.

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Now we're going to go over some of the other basic kicks of Kickboxing. The first is the snap kick, with our right leg forward and our arms up. We're going to bring up our knee and snap upwards. And we can do this at any height, depending on your flexibility. You could do it high or low, usually it's not done any lower than say, groin level. So once again, the snap kick. And as you do it, once again, we want to keep our arms up and our elbows in because if our arms come out, we lose our balance. The next kick we're going to go over is called the hook kick. Just like the hook punch, it's a rounded motion, just like a hook. We're going to have our arms up and kick to the side. So my shoulders are going to turn that way as I'm doing the kick. Once again, we're going to kick to the side. A lot of people like to pretend that there's a rope here and they're grabbing it and pulling it as they kick. The last kick we're going to go over in this section is called crescent kick; it comes over like a crescent. Let's say, there's something in front of us, we're going to have our arms up, we're going to pick up our heel and swing over something, putting our back to where we started. So once again, going over something in a crescent motion. So the three kick we went over, just to review are; the snap kick, the hook kick and the crescent kick. And those are some of the....

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Cardio Kickboxing Basic Kicks

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