Thanks for posting this. This is the best breakdown of the kick I've found on the net. I am a 52 year old 1st Dan blackbelt and I've always struggled with this kick and it's fine details. Thank you. Oss.
Excelent lesson. You are one of a few sensei who explained so good. Mine is the second one. We are from Roumania (East Europe) and we send you our best regards and Marry Christmas!
Hey man great video, I've recently started back doing Shotokan after years off and I can't believe now tight my inside legs have become. This is a great explanation about the mechanics of the kick and good info about the hip movement. I will be practicing along to this video many times i'm sure. Thanks, subscribed.
Great explanation, I asked lot of times about this Kick and nobody could help me with that until I found your book and now hoy Channel. Thanks for the help and your great job. Oss
grateful for your excellent video and explanations. i will begin training each of your demonstrated steps. any recommendations for improving hip flexibility? mine are very tight…
I'll be perfectly honest - I found your description and explanation of keage somewhat lacking in your book however this is an excellent workup to a proper keage and one I will incorporate into my own training.
Jeff MacDonald it can. It depends on your flexibility. For keage, it does not need to move. One day I’ll get around to a kekomi video where the foot needs to move.
@@tatumergo3931 thanks for the “kick in the pants”. I’ll get to one of my interpretation of kekomi. I teach it in a very broken down fashion that then gets significantly smoothed out. I, like you have seen many chambers for kekomi, but I find they all converge eventually to the same point. Again, thanks for the push!!!!
Wonderful tutorial master perhaps the most detailed one I have ever seen. If I may I have a question, do you think the supporting should move or not or turn a bit away or not?
Hi there. Sorry for the lag in response. In my mind, this is one of the key differences between side thrust and snap kick. By turning the supporting foot, you change the muscles and trajectory of the kicking leg. Also the nature of the snap doesn’t require the added support of the foot turn. I’ll do a video of my interpretation of the two soon!!!!
@@karatescience No worries, Thanks for your response Sensei. I am still very interested in what experienced karateka such as yourself have to say about this kick. If I may ask, what do you think of the kicking foot's position. I find it difficult to keep the sokuto parallel to the floor if I am kicking above waist height and when I have inquired about it I get somewhat mixed answers. Thank you for putting this information out there. Domo arigato gozamaisu!
This is the hardest kick in karate. I grab my toe, raisi my hip and then try to straighten my leg and it goes in totally wrong place and hurts a lot. I guess its just stiffness but I dont know what to do to get more mobility to do this kick. I can do "harder" kicks but this is the hardest kick in karate for me.
Be careful with this one. For me, it is always paying attention to that base leg hip. Also, remember that everyone as slightly different hip angles. So maybe bending a little forward at the hip will allow you the height you want. Either way, don’t go into ballistic stretch mode and tear something. Good luck with this kick, it is indeed one for the more tricky!!
@@karatescience Thank you. I try to find different angles and try to get my body used to it slowly and get rid of that tightness if I have. I have done pretty much streching workout, passive static, isometric static and dynamic as a warm up. Im gonna nail this kick someday.
This is by far the best explanation and tutorial for Yoko-Geri Keage on UA-cam. Thank you very much! 🥋👍
Great explanation, the best, actually! Everything awesomely detalied. Many thanks!
Absolutely awesome breakdown. Clear, constructive explanation and exercises, Oss!
Thanks for posting this. This is the best breakdown of the kick I've found on the net. I am a 52 year old 1st Dan blackbelt and I've always struggled with this kick and it's fine details. Thank you. Oss.
Thanks I'm keeping practicing
Excelent lesson. You are one of a few sensei who explained so good. Mine is the second one. We are from Roumania (East Europe) and we send you our best regards and Marry Christmas!
Very good explanations that help improve my keage 😅 thanks a lot!
Excellent breakdown, clear and simple. Keep it up!
thank you very much you are so good bro, very well explained
Thanks Doc, helped immensely
Ahhh now i see how this one is done! Thanks!
well explained thanks lot
Hey man great video, I've recently started back doing Shotokan after years off and I can't believe now tight my inside legs have become.
This is a great explanation about the mechanics of the kick and good info about the hip movement.
I will be practicing along to this video many times i'm sure. Thanks, subscribed.
great 👍❤
Thank you, OSS.
Great explanation, I asked lot of times about this Kick and nobody could help me with that until I found your book and now hoy Channel. Thanks for the help and your great job. Oss
Good morning Juan, I have just published a vid on Kekomi!
Thank you kindly :)
Great teaching! One of the best breakdowns I've ever seen. Thank you so much for your technical expertise and clear and simple explanation. Osu!
You're very welcome!
Switching from Taekwondo and had a hard time understanding the kick. Thank for the video!
grateful for your excellent video and explanations. i will begin training each of your demonstrated steps.
any recommendations for improving hip flexibility? mine are very tight…
I'll be perfectly honest - I found your description and explanation of keage somewhat lacking in your book however this is an excellent workup to a proper keage and one I will incorporate into my own training.
Jeff MacDonald it can. It depends on your flexibility. For keage, it does not need to move. One day I’ll get around to a kekomi video where the foot needs to move.
@@tatumergo3931 thanks for the “kick in the pants”. I’ll get to one of my interpretation of kekomi. I teach it in a very broken down fashion that then gets significantly smoothed out. I, like you have seen many chambers for kekomi, but I find they all converge eventually to the same point. Again, thanks for the push!!!!
Wonderful tutorial master perhaps the most detailed one I have ever seen. If I may I have a question, do you think the supporting should move or not or turn a bit away or not?
Hi there. Sorry for the lag in response. In my mind, this is one of the key differences between side thrust and snap kick. By turning the supporting foot, you change the muscles and trajectory of the kicking leg. Also the nature of the snap doesn’t require the added support of the foot turn. I’ll do a video of my interpretation of the two soon!!!!
@@karatescience No worries, Thanks for your response Sensei. I am still very interested in what experienced karateka such as yourself have to say about this kick. If I may ask, what do you think of the kicking foot's position. I find it difficult to keep the sokuto parallel to the floor if I am kicking above waist height and when I have inquired about it I get somewhat mixed answers. Thank you for putting this information out there. Domo arigato gozamaisu!
This is the hardest kick in karate. I grab my toe, raisi my hip and then try to straighten my leg and it goes in totally wrong place and hurts a lot. I guess its just stiffness but I dont know what to do to get more mobility to do this kick. I can do "harder" kicks but this is the hardest kick in karate for me.
Be careful with this one. For me, it is always paying attention to that base leg hip. Also, remember that everyone as slightly different hip angles. So maybe bending a little forward at the hip will allow you the height you want. Either way, don’t go into ballistic stretch mode and tear something.
Good luck with this kick, it is indeed one for the more tricky!!
@@karatescience Thank you. I try to find different angles and try to get my body used to it slowly and get rid of that tightness if I have. I have done pretty much streching workout, passive static, isometric static and dynamic as a warm up. Im gonna nail this kick someday.
It’s a Chundon kick anyways