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Jump Spin Kick; Crescent kick (an chagi / bakkat chagi): There are two variations of this kick: the outer crescent and the inner crescent. In the outer, the practitioner raises the extended leg as high as possible, and slightly up across the body, (a bit across the centerline of the body), then sweeping outward to the side, in a circular movement.
A side kick is delivered sideways in relation to the body of the person kicking. [7] A standard side kick is performed by first "chambering" by raising the kicking leg diagonally across the body, then extending the leg in a linear fashion toward the target, while flexing the abdominals.
Mae-ren geri: Double front kick (= double mae geri) Tobi mae geri: Front flying/jump kick; Tobi yoko geri: Jumping side kick; Tobi mawashi geri: Jumping roundhouse kick; Tobi mikazuki geri: Jumping crescent kick; Tobi gyaku mikazuki geri: Jumping reverse crescent; Tobi ushiro geri: Jumping spinning back kick; Tobi ushiro mawashi geri: Jumping ...
Bas-relief of a jump kick and spear attack. Located at Angkor Wat (1100's A.D.) in the Kingdom of Cambodia.. High kicks in general, as well as jump kicks, were foreign to Southern styles, and their presence in Wing Chun as well as Japanese and Korean martial arts is probably due to the influence of the Northern style of chinese martial arts.
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Traditionally, Choi Yong-sool's yu kwon sool (Korean: 유권술; Hanja: 柔拳術; RR: yugwonsul) kicking techniques were only to the lower body, but most derived varieties of hapkido, probably as a direct influence from other Korean arts, also include high kicks and jumping kicks. At the more advanced levels of Hapkido the practitioner learns ...
The leg extended furthest from the body leaves the ground first, kicking off and providing momentum. Then the reaching hand is placed on the far side of the body. Bending the arms at the elbows supports weight as both legs pass over the body fully extended. While inverted, the body should be opened and entirely extended.
Semi-circular kick or forty five degree roundhouse kick; There are a large number of special or variant kicking techniques, including spinning kicks, jumping kicks, and other variants such as Hook kick (heel kick) – Extending the leg out to the side of the body, and hooking the leg back to strike the head with either the heel or sole ...