Advance kicking moves

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basic kicks

Front Kick

Most basic kick in most martial arts. to perform you raise the leg and push forward with the ball of the foot. It is very effect when the kick is performed to the thigh.












Side Kick

One of the most powerful kicks in martial arts. To perform this you turn your hip towards the opponent then you push your leg out heel first.

Back Kick

Very powerful and unstable the back kick is another powerful move. Spinning in a 180 degree motion you strike with the heel of the foot just like the side kick.

Basic Blocks

Almost all TaeKwon-Do blocks start with crossing the arms about chest level. This helps to generate more power by turning the wrist at the last minute. The extra power comes from the speed produced at the last minute.


















Low Block

This is one of the first blocks you learn; the primary goal of the low block is to stop a kick to the shin or groan area. To do this you first cross your arms at the chest, then you use your forearm to block the kick.














This is an example of how the low block is executed. As the kick comes in you hit it away from your body.





High Section block

This block is much like the low block; you use the same part of the arm to block. You start by crossing your arm at your chest. The arm you block with should be on the inside of the X. As you raise your arm up you should turn your arm outwards, so that your forearm is where the attack hits.




This block is highly effective against a knife strike as shown in the picture. By executing this block the knife stays far enough from both your head and your arm.


















Twin Forearm Block
This block is prefect against someone who try to choke you. The most important is to make sure that you don't put your arms to far out, or to close or else the attacker will get through anyway.










This is how the block should look when attacked.




















Knife hand guarding block

This is one block that doesn't start with crossing the arm. Instead you wide up your arms, then strike the person's attacking arm.

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Just a little update my next post is being delayed because my camera isn't recognized on any computer i try; hopefully I'll have the next post by Monday at the latest

TaeKwon-Do

TaeKwon-Do is the one of Korea’s many different Martial Arts and was created by General Choi Hong Hi, (1918-2002) Founder of the International TaeKwon-Do Federation (ITF). It was created by combining movements of Japanese Karate and the traditional, but crude, Korean martial arts of Soo bak Gi and TaeKyon. Students of TaeKwon-do promise at the start and end of each class to up-hold the tenets, which are Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance, Self-control, Indomitable spirit. The different aspects of TaeKwon-do are meditation, self-defense, breaking, free sparring and patterns. Patterns being a series of strikes and blocks executed in succession against imaginary opponents.

Intro

Welcome to my site. If you can’t already tell the topic I will be talking about is martial arts from all over the world. But first a little about myself I have always been interested in different forms of martial arts. When I was little I took Karate lessons, I was in it for about two years and got pretty far before the school closed. I currently take Taekwon-do which I have been in for four years and have made it to the rank of black-belt. Hopefully soon I will be training in aikido. I plan to do the posts in an orderly manner, the first post I’ll go into the history of each martial art. The second post I will teach you some of the movements.