I am a teenage kickboxer and i have 3 state level championship titles under my name...And honestly i have gotten more knockouts in the side kick....this video is actually a very detailed explanation about the physics and dynamics of the side kick.This is actually good.
@@CowBoy_Anthony Well then, you have to have your priorities in order, you don't have to listen to your kickboxing master, if there's not an actual reason then you can practice it without caring what he thinks
I have always had tight hamstrings and hips, I tried all kind of stretches through my life and none of them gave me even only 10% of the mobility and flexibility gains that I had in my first couple of months doing Muay Thai. If you analyse it, kicking is not only a dynamic stretch but works with all body parts at the same time, making it a functional stretch. Nothing worked for me better for mobility and flexibility than kicking.
100 percent. I’ve done Muay Thai now for about 1.5 years and my flexibility is atleast 50 percent better than it was when I started. I stretch a little now and do some yoga, but I’ve found that throwing lots of head height kicks on the bag has really opened my hips up. I almost throw like a controlled light sparring speed kick up on the bag and just really worth the mechanics. Helps a lot.
Mannn, can I just say, I love that you are making these videos again! Your horse stance video helped me massively when I started Silat 5 years ago. That leg endurance even translated nicely into snowboarding
Love how you broke down the analysis on the sidekick as well as shown there's much more to the kick than how things look, can you do a video on the tornado kick next please. Plus fantastic video keep them up they're really enjoyable as well as alot of fun to watch as well as share with friends.
@@adameriksson6921 kinda, I tried kicking and boy did I suck. So I'm now on a glute and stretching workout. I do deadlifts , hip thrusts and squats. I'm trying to get my ass stronger, which I know sounds weird but a big part of the power is in the glutes. So ehhh I'm kinda far from getting the side kicks I want maybe 2 more months of working out my ass and leg muscles then I retry kicking. I doing splits too,because I have poor flexibility :(
I love the animations on these videos, just like the way me and my mates used to sketch Bruce Lee and Arny in the 80's at Primary School! Superb to see the horse stance and kicks broken down through the sketch which gets coloured in, brilliant
The majority of times I use it is to the hips to create distance. They either move back, or get moved back. Also works slightly higher to completely wind the other person if they move forwards
The step side kick is part of Army combatives also. So it remains in the modern battlefield. You can read the combatived field manual and see the drills for it.
Would be cool to see a video clip compilation of the side kick variations together, showing them all individually and then timed together from start to finish in quadrants to compare in real time.
Whenever i do a side kick, i slightly bend the front leg (usually my left) and extend it right before contact for extra power. Its a bit harder to catch your balance after the kick but i already got used to it
Bruce Lee's so called "Side Kick" is unorthodoxed. It generates power more like a back kick but passes as a side kick. Very unique. Yes it is powerful best used as a counter attack.
Another underrated kick is the (in my martial art) the 45 degree kick. So much power into it, so quick, and can easily hit your liver. I’d say it’s about good as the side kick
one thing I recommend is adding an orthodox and southpaw stances and attacks so it is easier for those to copy just reverse your pictures and label it southpaw
The side kick is holds the most push power, and it hits with overwhelming power, but the roundhouse with the shins hit the hardest because of core rotation, pivoting, and the shin bones are scary strong
Really depends on the person usually but side kick is definitely one of the world most powerful types of kicks and the side kick is my favorite type of kick and it has so much different variations and way’s you can use it, this is definitely the most powerful kick type that can be thrown overall. 🥋 🦵 Nice video btw 🔥.
the thing about Bruce Lee is that he's a sleeper build. The guy practices on a 900 lb bag and casually send em swinging and flying. Imagine if he put emphasis on volume training and not just endurance and strength. That added mass would easily make him do casual strikes close to a 1 ton instead of them being haymakers.
Sanda practitioner here, if you re wandering why this isnt used in Muay Thai or kickboxing as much as it is in Sanda or MMA, its because this kick works well to destabilize oppoents and open them for takedowns , something that is less importnat in MT or Kb given that there is no throws.
There's also another reason why this kick is so effective in the real world. If you get into a real fight punching someone's head with your hands is likely to break your hands. The bottom of your feet are literally the toughest natural impact weapons you have, add the hard sole of your shoe and this particular kick is a devastating wrecking ball with the least opportunity for self injury. Hardly any martial art acknowledges this besides French Savate, literally shoe fighting.
Can u talk about how the arm swing helps with power with muay thai low kicks it looks like fighter jolt their upper thorso and use arm swing for balance,also i saw a vid on alex pereira do a calf kick on danial cormier and it sounded deadly with little effort and no arm swing.
The arm swing helps with balance and counter-rotation (if you've ever sat on an office chair and spun without using your legs, you know what that is). Pereira doesn't arm swing because he barely commits his hips to kicks in the first place. He still has a lot of power because he is a giant muscle man, and the calf can't take much damage anyway.
I love your drawings do you have any videos detailing your drawing techniques? I'm doing a design degree and any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks
unfortunately no, I just watched my father do illustrations as a kid and mimiced him. as i got older i got a few books and watched some youtube videos to find more effective techniques. For me the fastest and most reliable technique seems to be quick, sketchy gesture drawings on one layer and then open another layer on top and make the finished line art. The "Force: dynamic life drawing" book probably helped me the most. Hope this helps some, best of luck
can you make a video about nasal breathing techniques ; like I usually do 2 inhales and 2 exhales and the 2nd exhal is bigger than the 1st while running
Lifelong side kick specialist. The side kick produces a lot or torque and has decent application, but it can be blocked or diverted. Look up "mawashi keiten geri" if you want to see the absolute most devastating kick possible
I have a question. I’m having SI joint pain on the side of the supporting leg when doing any sidekick variation. The more force of the kick has, the greater the pain in the SI joint. So my question, how come my SI joint was not protected by the gluteus muscles and hamstring and other supporting muscles because evidently all the shocks during the years (I practiced this kick almost daily for 13 years as the daily karate practice requires) went into the SI joint, possibly lower back L4-L5 vertebrae (even the doctors are not sure). This for me is debilitating and I can no longer practice any kicks no more since all kicks generate a reaction force into the supporting leg, which is actually not transferred into the floor as I thought but into the lower back joints like spine and SI Joint. Apropos no amount of gluteus, hamstring, abductors, adductors or core/abs/mobilization exercises would help and has little to no effect on the impact on the joint in that lower back area since now that the joint is damaged I can definitely see the non effectiveness of the bul shit strengthening exercises regurgitated on the internet that in actuality has almost no effect in absorbing shocks. So does that mean that basically by kicking you are inevitably destroying your SI joint/L4-L5 vertebrae? I’m only 36 years btw shouldn’t this happen at 85 or something? Anyway great video on the biomechanics of the sidekick, best I saw until now. Tomorrow I’m going to do a corticosteroid injection in the SI joint hopefully will help the area heal but as I understand once a joint is damaged is bye bye fir life… P.S. The SI joint since the pain started 2 years ago it clicks and pops and is definitely grinding bone on bone when I kick so anyone any thoughts? This should have been an universal problem for kicking practitioners cuz I have flawless technique, I have good mobility, did daily full body conditioning none of this helped. Karate is my life and finding this truth that you actually destroy yourself with this practices is debilitating both physical and psychological.
Are you sure the joint has taken damage or are you assuming damage because of the pain? The S.I. is designed to be a shock absorber and it's certainly possible to overtrain it, even with kicks. Especially kicks on a bag because they have such a jarring impact. Does the pain happen when you kick in the air or only when kicking an object? Usually when I see S.I. pain for any reason there is or has been some sort of postural deviation that's creating a weak link in the postural chain. For S.I. pain it's usually the pelvis that's out of alignment. Usually if you can find the alignment issue, correct it and give the S.I. joint time to heal, it can return to normal. Problem is the most common long term damage to s.i joints is to the connective tissue inside them and that can take up to 2 years to heal completely, and that's assuming you've corrected things and given it a break. So it can be tough to heal, but I've seen it happen many times. It's also fairly common for the problem to be in the L4, L5 region as you said. A herniated disc or damaged facet joint in that area can cause swelling that irritates the nerves which run into the s.i. joint and sciatic area. Again, this can be difficult to heal from but it's rarely impossible. I've seen people who could hardly walk for years recover in a matter of months once they understand the root cause and get a good routine going.
@@moversodyssey Thank you for your response! Finally someone to directly confirm all my suspicions after two years of internet and youtube research you give me some hope to healing. I have been to 3 doctors by now and this third one is trying to fix the SI joint problem as the other ones said is disk bulge but since I don’t feel the pain in the lower back but exactly at the SI joint I kept searching. As you said I always suspected a misalignment of the pelvis due to shocks from the bag since I began having this pain from a particular hard training session in the pads that might have produced this misalignment 2 years ago. The problem is that none of the doctors are listening to me that there must somehow fix this mechanical issue first and then treat it with resting and antinflamatory and such but they don’t understand anything I say… they just do their protocol. Hopefully this new doctor that at least recognized that the SI joint is “locked” whatever that means, gave me 2 weeks antiflamatories and muscle relaxants pills whatever those are and said if it still hurts after 4 weeks of full rest we’ll do a corticosteroid in the joint and then do kyneto-therapy which in my country is basically strenght/mobilisation exercises done by physiotherapists. Hopefully those exercises will help realign the joint and unlock it so it no longer presses on the sciatic nerve since sometimes this will even block my leg for three days but not when kicking but when doing weighted squats and deadlifts, nothing crazy but even with 50-60 kgs. Anyway now with your new information and insight I must somehow fix at-least this pelvis alignment issue since now even walking creates annoying pain and running is out of the question. Thanks again! P.S. And to answer your direct question, when I kick in the air it hurts also and it hurts even more when kicking the bag. The most it hurts when I do a spinning back kick(ushiro geri) since there is also more rotation of the back nit just arching. Only the left support leg has this problem exactly on the SI joint bony area. I can even feel that the left SI joint bony protuberance (sorry don’t know the medical term) is bigger than the right side… Is like you know… a Hunglund deformity (which btw I have on both my achilles insertions due to all of the uphill sprints I did over the years) but for the SI joint.. PPS To perfectly understand where the pain and what causes it is if you do the hip airplane by dropping your pelvis (squat university exercise) or warrior 3 pose I will feel a clicking popping sound and grinding sensation when dropping the pelvis and pain exactly in the left SI joint due to the load put on this left leg that impacts the joint directly even in this static slow movement position… So a spining back kick would be an even more extreme case of this not to mention when impacting bag.
@@Todrianth The bony protuberance on the S.I. you speak of is the PSIS. If it's bigger on one side it usually either means that side of the pelvis is rotated backwards, or there is inflammation in the connective tissue around the s.i., which is just the body's attempt to stabilize the joint when it experiences issues. Problems rooted directly in the S.I. are almost always either a locked or stuck S.I., which means that side of the pelvis has rotated backwards and is wedging the s.i. joint shut. Or there have been ligament tears, or some other cause of hyper mobility in the joint and it's opening too far, which irritates the nerves running through it. Thats when you get the swelling directly on the s.i. Sometimes you can tell by pressing into the bump if it's more fleshy (though its connective tissue so its often tough tissue), or if it's more bony. If this doctor is right and it's stuck, then something is causing the left side of your pelvis to stay rotated backwards. Sometimes this is tight muscles in or under the glutes on that side (glute medius, piriformis), and sometimes it's the posterior adductors or hamstrings on that side. The psoas can also be cause these types of misalignments, I have a v ecent video on that if you haven't checked it out, it might help. But to summarize, you need to know if it's really stuck, or if it's loose. In that psoas video I show images of anterior pelvic tilt, posterior pelvic tilt, and hip hike. I would check and see if you notice any of these misalignments in yourself as a starting point. You just need to collect clues and tackle the problem like a detective. Once you know the cause of the issue you can address it properly and you will start seeing results pretty quickly.
Thank you again for your detailed response! It makes sense what you say that if the PSIS is swollen as I feel it on the left side by comparison when I'm touching both sides, (although I can’t believe the doctor today that made the corticosteroid injection didn’t see it, although I asked to check it) it would mean that the pelvis is shifted backwards on that side logically. As for the hyper mobility you are right, when I do the Faber Test the left effected side has like 1 fist distance from the mat whilst the right side has like 2 fists distance. For the pressing test suggestion on the joint, to be honest I couldn’t tell if it’s more bony or more fleshy, the doctors should know this but since they don’t even recognize the bump... that’s how hasty they are. I will ask the chiropractor/physical therapist in a week from now since they now have programed me for hip alignment/mobilization as the next step for unlocking it. They said that this anti-inflammatory injection was needed for the process to be more pain free so I’m expecting serious cracking and popping of the hip/spine next time. Again you are right, on the affected left side the gluteus medius and definitely the piriformis (since I see enormous relief when I do deep tennis ball massage to them) are like 3 times tighter on left side after I walk for 4h (since I can’t run for 1h I supplement with daily walking). As for the hamstring and adductors I would say they are more tighter on the right side then on the left because I do front splits significantly easier on the left side (=left leg in front) The Psoas to be honest, I’ve seen your very interesting video, but I can’t identify any tightness to it to either side. In karate you do V-sit-ups every training, you don’t do crunches, so based on you recommended strengthening exercise for this muscle, I would say is pretty solid. The anterior/posterior pelvic tilt for me was always difficult to identify, which I have that is. I don’t have like 10% body fat to easily see it I have more like 20% so paired with the bulging abs and overgrown glutes from all those kicking and squatting and also the extra fat It’s very hard to see the tilt. What I can definitely say is that since my SI joint pain, I started being much more aware of walking with my core semi- braced and my pelvis tilted forward much like in a boxing stance but without the tucked chin (I'm no weirdo 😄 ). This reduces the SI joint pain dramatically so this is how I walk now for two years although I was tightening my abs since I started karate from childhood since my coach always said that you should never keep you belly fully relaxed, you might never know when a hit might come by surprise or you need to kick or punch so the core must be braced. So all my life I’ve kinda braced my core when I walked or even when I sit.. So If I’d had to guess I always forced a posterior tilt (although I kind a see it as an alignment of the hips with the lower ribs, much like you would squat correctly) by engaging my abs and glutes but if I relax completely it goes on a more anterior tilt naturally. Also all of my life I’ve slept on my belly on the liver side with the left knee up which kinda arches the back and it makes the left SI joint pain worse I guess. Since I’ve got the injection I can feel the pain stinging more when sleeping like this… Maybe I should sleep on the floor 😄. Thanks again for reading my long comments ! 🙂
@@moversodysseyyour anatomy drawing skills are wonderful as well. thanks a lot sir, I'll try learning line drawing and probably making a video with it ....
Its hard to say without seeing you particular issue, but an overall good recommendation for most people would be adding 90/90 hip rotations (also called shin box), couch stretches, and an elevated pigeon stretch. This will loosen up the hips in most people, though I've also seen people who need to really focus on lengthening the adductors, in which case horse stances or wide, bodyweight sumo squats are really helpful as well.
@@moversodyssey thank you very much!! I've heard about some of the mentioned exercises, and I also was able to get some answers from some of the other comments. Thank you very much for your time!!
Bruce's side kick was awesome. I think muay thai sidekick is very effective. But you've forgotten to explain about shoulder position duringthe kick. 5:36 it doesn't suit to show proud & rude person with wickr sXx in a fighting related video.
Not gonna lie, I've got no idea what a person with "wickr sXx" is. Figured it's a typo but maybe it's just something I'm unaware of. I also don't know who the proud and rude person is, Bruce Lee maybe your referring to?
Dude it would be so cool if you did a video explaing long and short range concepts that ATG uses, keegan Smith explains it realy well on his channel i think youd find it interesting 😅
What happened to the video you posted on how to talk with the universe. I saw the notification but I was busy at the time, the notification never returned, I came to check and it was not up. Please, I really want to watch it
Might have been another channel, I don't have one like that. Though I'll be doing some videos on internal martial arts and ancient mysticism in the near future.
yea, this one has to be done carefully. I always try to just lightly strike so my training partner knows it would have landed. Unless of course we agreed on hard sparring ahead of time.
I wouldnt say it isnt, honestly the back kick and side kick are nearly the same kick with only minor difference. I feel like back kick is really solid but doesnt seem as explosive as the side kick for most people. Both are really powerful kicks though
@@moversodyssey yeah because you have more overall strength but its very hard to actually use in a fight. But most martial artist say it is strongest because your glutes are the biggest muscles in your entire body
I love muay thai and it's round kick, I use it more often than side kicks and it's certainly a very hard kick, wouldn't take anything away from it...but no way it's stronger than a well placed spinning side kick. Dems just the facts
Lol. The quickest way to sketch I've found is to gesture draw with a head, rib cage, and a pelvis (usually just a circle or squarish shape), a line for the spine, two circles for the shoulders and lines for the legs and arms. If it all looks proportional and in the right pose you can then flesh it out. But everyone ends up finding a different mannequin they like to gesture draw with.
I hear a lot of people argue its the back kick or round kick, and in some situations thats true. But for me, I definitely produce the most power with a spinning side kick.
@moversodyssey in your opinion could the "strongest kick" vary by gender? I'm just wondering if a lower centre of gravity would change any of the factors that contribute to a strong kick. 🤔
@@KimomoDragon Hmmm.... well, if your center of gravity is lower compared to that of your opponent you will have an advantage in terms of power when kicking to the legs. So it might not change your overall power for each kick, but it may change the relative power your able to utilize against an opponent. It would also mean you need more upward thrust when kicking to the body or head, but honestly upward thrust is usually easiest to achieve with the side kick anyway. So, I guess I would assume it mainly benefits you if you can use lower kicks and inside kicks, but probably would change the power much when just kicking a heavy bag.
Really Bruce Lee made this kick popular?? Like you know how long the sidekick has been around in karate Taekwondo and kung fu? It's kind of like how people say Bruce Lee what's the grandfather of MMA when really he wasn't
It may have been around for thousands of years, but to the modern, western, mainstream consciousness, it wasn't well known until Bruce Lee popularized it and eastern martial arts in general. It was because of his hollywood movies that karate and kung fu experienced an explosion of popularity in the U.S., without which it would probably still be a fringe community. Yoga and kettlebells were around for centuries as well, doesn't mean people here were aware of it until recently.
I am a teenage kickboxer and i have 3 state level championship titles under my name...And honestly i have gotten more knockouts in the side kick....this video is actually a very detailed explanation about the physics and dynamics of the side kick.This is actually good.
Same here, I actually only have one regional championship title, but I have another few in Muay Thai from a few years ago
@@JasonAizatoZemeckis i love muay thai ❤
@@CowBoy_Anthony Me too, been doing it since I was a child, I'm not that good, but its because I want to do lots of other martial arts too
@@JasonAizatoZemeckis ive always wanted to try muay thai....my kickboxing master despises it
@@CowBoy_Anthony Well then, you have to have your priorities in order, you don't have to listen to your kickboxing master, if there's not an actual reason then you can practice it without caring what he thinks
I have always had tight hamstrings and hips, I tried all kind of stretches through my life and none of them gave me even only 10% of the mobility and flexibility gains that I had in my first couple of months doing Muay Thai. If you analyse it, kicking is not only a dynamic stretch but works with all body parts at the same time, making it a functional stretch. Nothing worked for me better for mobility and flexibility than kicking.
I couldn't agree more. Kicks changed my body drastically, especially my hips.
100 percent. I’ve done Muay Thai now for about 1.5 years and my flexibility is atleast 50 percent better than it was when I started. I stretch a little now and do some yoga, but I’ve found that throwing lots of head height kicks on the bag has really opened my hips up. I almost throw like a controlled light sparring speed kick up on the bag and just really worth the mechanics. Helps a lot.
Mannn, can I just say, I love that you are making these videos again! Your horse stance video helped me massively when I started Silat 5 years ago. That leg endurance even translated nicely into snowboarding
I'm glad it helped out! I'm going to keep at it.
Love how you broke down the analysis on the sidekick as well as shown there's much more to the kick than how things look, can you do a video on the tornado kick next please.
Plus fantastic video keep them up they're really enjoyable as well as alot of fun to watch as well as share with friends.
I hope you make more videos frequently. I seriously enjoy them. Good work, brother
I'm loving the drawing ❤
Sold. I start kicking today
Are you kicking it still?
@@adameriksson6921 kinda, I tried kicking and boy did I suck.
So I'm now on a glute and stretching workout.
I do deadlifts , hip thrusts and squats. I'm trying to get my ass stronger, which I know sounds weird but a big part of the power is in the glutes.
So ehhh I'm kinda far from getting the side kicks I want maybe 2 more months of working out my ass and leg muscles then I retry kicking.
I doing splits too,because I have poor flexibility :(
I love the animations on these videos, just like the way me and my mates used to sketch Bruce Lee and Arny in the 80's at Primary School! Superb to see the horse stance and kicks broken down through the sketch which gets coloured in, brilliant
The majority of times I use it is to the hips to create distance. They either move back, or get moved back. Also works slightly higher to completely wind the other person if they move forwards
Thank you for the different variations. I screenshotted them as well as the exercises you mentioned earlier.
That's a good idea! He also has a poster with all of them. Pretty cool looking
I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
@@moversodyssey I did. I also saved it to a folder/playlist I called "General Martial Arts I Found"
Just found your videos man. By god i might just go back to sketching again coupled with my love of training and movement. Thank you so much 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hey, there you have working on the quality of the video more than quantity really appreciate it man
The step side kick is part of Army combatives also. So it remains in the modern battlefield. You can read the combatived field manual and see the drills for it.
Would be cool to see a video clip compilation of the side kick variations together, showing them all individually and then timed together from start to finish in quadrants to compare in real time.
Whenever i do a side kick, i slightly bend the front leg (usually my left) and extend it right before contact for extra power. Its a bit harder to catch your balance after the kick but i already got used to it
Bruce Lee's so called "Side Kick" is unorthodoxed. It generates power more like a back kick but passes as a side kick. Very unique. Yes it is powerful best used as a counter attack.
Great knowledge and presentation. 👏
I love the page turning sounds, too!
This video is so cool! Love the added animation 😍
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Great video, thanks!
Bro that’s insane…..you must continue❤
Another underrated kick is the (in my martial art) the 45 degree kick. So much power into it, so quick, and can easily hit your liver. I’d say it’s about good as the side kick
one thing I recommend is adding an orthodox and southpaw stances and attacks so it is easier for those to copy
just reverse your pictures and label it southpaw
Do more strike breakdown
The side kick is holds the most push power, and it hits with overwhelming power, but the roundhouse with the shins hit the hardest because of core rotation, pivoting, and the shin bones are scary strong
Doing side kicks, even as a regular person are honestly so fun to do.
Really depends on the person usually but side kick is definitely one of the world most powerful types of kicks and the side kick is my favorite type of kick and it has so much different variations and way’s you can use it, this is definitely the most powerful kick type that can be thrown overall. 🥋 🦵 Nice video btw 🔥.
I really like teeps and front kicks though
Thank you for this information 💪👍
This is a great video, thank you very much! Can you please upload one about the spinning side kick and/or the hopping side kick?
I was also in karate i wone 9 gold medal and 2 silver medal in state level karate this video is very informative ❤
Saw the channel and clicked, didnt even need to see the video to know I'd learn something
Can you make video talking about the roundhouse kick sometime in the future?
Long range + fast + the least risk + powerful
If one should learn only one kick it's the side kick
the thing about Bruce Lee is that he's a sleeper build. The guy practices on a 900 lb bag and casually send em swinging and flying. Imagine if he put emphasis on volume training and not just endurance and strength. That added mass would easily make him do casual strikes close to a 1 ton instead of them being haymakers.
THIS IS PRICELESS!!!!
Sanda practitioner here, if you re wandering why this isnt used in Muay Thai or kickboxing as much as it is in Sanda or MMA, its because this kick works well to destabilize oppoents and open them for takedowns , something that is less importnat in MT or Kb given that there is no throws.
Amazing video! I like how you explained the video with drawings. I would like a video about punching. Please.
Never hear much about front kick. Very powerful, maybe most powerful, especially against hard, immovable objects.
Front kick is probably the easiest to use and most universally applicable kick. Especially a front kick to the knee or thigh.
Awesome style and info! Thanks! (The taekwondo fighter in me says: Everythink is correct.)
There's also another reason why this kick is so effective in the real world. If you get into a real fight punching someone's head with your hands is likely to break your hands. The bottom of your feet are literally the toughest natural impact weapons you have, add the hard sole of your shoe and this particular kick is a devastating wrecking ball with the least opportunity for self injury. Hardly any martial art acknowledges this besides French Savate, literally shoe fighting.
And no pencil sounds!
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The most simple method is often the most effective
good video
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Can u talk about how the arm swing helps with power with muay thai low kicks it looks like fighter jolt their upper thorso and use arm swing for balance,also i saw a vid on alex pereira do a calf kick on danial cormier and it sounded deadly with little effort and no arm swing.
The arm swing helps with balance and counter-rotation (if you've ever sat on an office chair and spun without using your legs, you know what that is). Pereira doesn't arm swing because he barely commits his hips to kicks in the first place. He still has a lot of power because he is a giant muscle man, and the calf can't take much damage anyway.
My Favorite kick
I love your drawings do you have any videos detailing your drawing techniques? I'm doing a design degree and any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
unfortunately no, I just watched my father do illustrations as a kid and mimiced him. as i got older i got a few books and watched some youtube videos to find more effective techniques. For me the fastest and most reliable technique seems to be quick, sketchy gesture drawings on one layer and then open another layer on top and make the finished line art. The "Force: dynamic life drawing" book probably helped me the most. Hope this helps some, best of luck
can you make a video about nasal breathing techniques ; like I usually do 2 inhales and 2 exhales and the 2nd exhal is bigger than the 1st while running
Lifelong side kick specialist. The side kick produces a lot or torque and has decent application, but it can be blocked or diverted.
Look up "mawashi keiten geri" if you want to see the absolute most devastating kick possible
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can u make a vid abt the splits
Question: What martial arts do you think best helps students move and develop "Flow" in fighting?
Great channel I just started watching. Subscrided! Do you outsource your art or do you draw it yourself?
I do them all myself, it's a one man operation. For now anyway
Keep up the great content and artwork! Hope it expands to a larger operation.@@moversodyssey
Can you a video of 360 degree kick plz
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Flying/jumping side kick
I have a question. I’m having SI joint pain on the side of the supporting leg when doing any sidekick variation. The more force of the kick has, the greater the pain in the SI joint. So my question, how come my SI joint was not protected by the gluteus muscles and hamstring and other supporting muscles because evidently all the shocks during the years (I practiced this kick almost daily for 13 years as the daily karate practice requires) went into the SI joint, possibly lower back L4-L5 vertebrae (even the doctors are not sure). This for me is debilitating and I can no longer practice any kicks no more since all kicks generate a reaction force into the supporting leg, which is actually not transferred into the floor as I thought but into the lower back joints like spine and SI Joint. Apropos no amount of gluteus, hamstring, abductors, adductors or core/abs/mobilization exercises would help and has little to no effect on the impact on the joint in that lower back area since now that the joint is damaged I can definitely see the non effectiveness of the bul shit strengthening exercises regurgitated on the internet that in actuality has almost no effect in absorbing shocks. So does that mean that basically by kicking you are inevitably destroying your SI joint/L4-L5 vertebrae? I’m only 36 years btw shouldn’t this happen at 85 or something? Anyway great video on the biomechanics of the sidekick, best I saw until now. Tomorrow I’m going to do a corticosteroid injection in the SI joint hopefully will help the area heal but as I understand once a joint is damaged is bye bye fir life… P.S. The SI joint since the pain started 2 years ago it clicks and pops and is definitely grinding bone on bone when I kick so anyone any thoughts? This should have been an universal problem for kicking practitioners cuz I have flawless technique, I have good mobility, did daily full body conditioning none of this helped. Karate is my life and finding this truth that you actually destroy yourself with this practices is debilitating both physical and psychological.
Are you sure the joint has taken damage or are you assuming damage because of the pain? The S.I. is designed to be a shock absorber and it's certainly possible to overtrain it, even with kicks. Especially kicks on a bag because they have such a jarring impact. Does the pain happen when you kick in the air or only when kicking an object?
Usually when I see S.I. pain for any reason there is or has been some sort of postural deviation that's creating a weak link in the postural chain. For S.I. pain it's usually the pelvis that's out of alignment. Usually if you can find the alignment issue, correct it and give the S.I. joint time to heal, it can return to normal. Problem is the most common long term damage to s.i joints is to the connective tissue inside them and that can take up to 2 years to heal completely, and that's assuming you've corrected things and given it a break. So it can be tough to heal, but I've seen it happen many times.
It's also fairly common for the problem to be in the L4, L5 region as you said. A herniated disc or damaged facet joint in that area can cause swelling that irritates the nerves which run into the s.i. joint and sciatic area. Again, this can be difficult to heal from but it's rarely impossible. I've seen people who could hardly walk for years recover in a matter of months once they understand the root cause and get a good routine going.
@@moversodyssey Thank you for your response! Finally someone to directly confirm all my suspicions after two years of internet and youtube research you give me some hope to healing. I have been to 3 doctors by now and this third one is trying to fix the SI joint problem as the other ones said is disk bulge but since I don’t feel the pain in the lower back but exactly at the SI joint I kept searching. As you said I always suspected a misalignment of the pelvis due to shocks from the bag since I began having this pain from a particular hard training session in the pads that might have produced this misalignment 2 years ago. The problem is that none of the doctors are listening to me that there must somehow fix this mechanical issue first and then treat it with resting and antinflamatory and such but they don’t understand anything I say… they just do their protocol. Hopefully this new doctor that at least recognized that the SI joint is “locked” whatever that means, gave me 2 weeks antiflamatories and muscle relaxants pills whatever those are and said if it still hurts after 4 weeks of full rest we’ll do a corticosteroid in the joint and then do kyneto-therapy which in my country is basically strenght/mobilisation exercises done by physiotherapists. Hopefully those exercises will help realign the joint and unlock it so it no longer presses on the sciatic nerve since sometimes this will even block my leg for three days but not when kicking but when doing weighted squats and deadlifts, nothing crazy but even with 50-60 kgs. Anyway now with your new information and insight I must somehow fix at-least this pelvis alignment issue since now even walking creates annoying pain and running is out of the question. Thanks again! P.S. And to answer your direct question, when I kick in the air it hurts also and it hurts even more when kicking the bag. The most it hurts when I do a spinning back kick(ushiro geri) since there is also more rotation of the back nit just arching. Only the left support leg has this problem exactly on the SI joint bony area. I can even feel that the left SI joint bony protuberance (sorry don’t know the medical term) is bigger than the right side… Is like you know… a Hunglund deformity (which btw I have on both my achilles insertions due to all of the uphill sprints I did over the years) but for the SI joint.. PPS To perfectly understand where the pain and what causes it is if you do the hip airplane by dropping your pelvis (squat university exercise) or warrior 3 pose I will feel a clicking popping sound and grinding sensation when dropping the pelvis and pain exactly in the left SI joint due to the load put on this left leg that impacts the joint directly even in this static slow movement position… So a spining back kick would be an even more extreme case of this not to mention when impacting bag.
@@Todrianth The bony protuberance on the S.I. you speak of is the PSIS. If it's bigger on one side it usually either means that side of the pelvis is rotated backwards, or there is inflammation in the connective tissue around the s.i., which is just the body's attempt to stabilize the joint when it experiences issues.
Problems rooted directly in the S.I. are almost always either a locked or stuck S.I., which means that side of the pelvis has rotated backwards and is wedging the s.i. joint shut.
Or there have been ligament tears, or some other cause of hyper mobility in the joint and it's opening too far, which irritates the nerves running through it. Thats when you get the swelling directly on the s.i.
Sometimes you can tell by pressing into the bump if it's more fleshy (though its connective tissue so its often tough tissue), or if it's more bony.
If this doctor is right and it's stuck, then something is causing the left side of your pelvis to stay rotated backwards. Sometimes this is tight muscles in or under the glutes on that side (glute medius, piriformis), and sometimes it's the posterior adductors or hamstrings on that side.
The psoas can also be cause these types of misalignments, I have a v
ecent video on that if you haven't checked it out, it might help.
But to summarize, you need to know if it's really stuck, or if it's loose. In that psoas video I show images of anterior pelvic tilt, posterior pelvic tilt, and hip hike. I would check and see if you notice any of these misalignments in yourself as a starting point. You just need to collect clues and tackle the problem like a detective. Once you know the cause of the issue you can address it properly and you will start seeing results pretty quickly.
Thank you again for your detailed response! It makes sense what you say that if the PSIS is swollen as I feel it on the left side by comparison when I'm touching both sides, (although I can’t believe the doctor today that made the corticosteroid injection didn’t see it, although I asked to check it) it would mean that the pelvis is shifted backwards on that side logically.
As for the hyper mobility you are right, when I do the Faber Test the left effected side has like 1 fist distance from the mat whilst the right side has like 2 fists distance.
For the pressing test suggestion on the joint, to be honest I couldn’t tell if it’s more bony or more fleshy, the doctors should know this but since they don’t even recognize the bump... that’s how hasty they are. I will ask the chiropractor/physical therapist in a week from now since they now have programed me for hip alignment/mobilization as the next step for unlocking it. They said that this anti-inflammatory injection was needed for the process to be more pain free so I’m expecting serious cracking and popping of the hip/spine next time.
Again you are right, on the affected left side the gluteus medius and definitely the piriformis (since I see enormous relief when I do deep tennis ball massage to them) are like 3 times tighter on left side after I walk for 4h (since I can’t run for 1h I supplement with daily walking). As for the hamstring and adductors I would say they are more tighter on the right side then on the left because I do front splits significantly easier on the left side (=left leg in front)
The Psoas to be honest, I’ve seen your very interesting video, but I can’t identify any tightness to it to either side. In karate you do V-sit-ups every training, you don’t do crunches, so based on you recommended strengthening exercise for this muscle, I would say is pretty solid.
The anterior/posterior pelvic tilt for me was always difficult to identify, which I have that is. I don’t have like 10% body fat to easily see it I have more like 20% so paired with the bulging abs and overgrown glutes from all those kicking and squatting and also the extra fat It’s very hard to see the tilt. What I can definitely say is that since my SI joint pain, I started being much more aware of walking with my core semi- braced and my pelvis tilted forward much like in a boxing stance but without the tucked chin (I'm no weirdo 😄 ). This reduces the SI joint pain dramatically so this is how I walk now for two years although I was tightening my abs since I started karate from childhood since my coach always said that you should never keep you belly fully relaxed, you might never know when a hit might come by surprise or you need to kick or punch so the core must be braced. So all my life I’ve kinda braced my core when I walked or even when I sit.. So If I’d had to guess I always forced a posterior tilt (although I kind a see it as an alignment of the hips with the lower ribs, much like you would squat correctly) by engaging my abs and glutes but if I relax completely it goes on a more anterior tilt naturally. Also all of my life I’ve slept on my belly on the liver side with the left knee up which kinda arches the back and it makes the left SI joint pain worse I guess. Since I’ve got the injection I can feel the pain stinging more when sleeping like this… Maybe I should sleep on the floor 😄. Thanks again for reading my long comments ! 🙂
Imo the most powerful is roundhouse or spinning hook,but side kicks are fast
i have a question is going up stairs good for stamina and is there any health benifits and sprint running can give me more stamina
Yea running up stairs is similar to uphill running. Its a great workout and it creates a lot of power in the legs.
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What software's are used here for the artwork??
Clip studio, it's a photoshop like software geared towards manga artists. I highly recommend it if your illustrating with line art.
@@moversodysseyyour anatomy drawing skills are wonderful as well.
thanks a lot sir, I'll try learning line drawing and probably making a video with it ....
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Isn't the spinning back kick the strongest kick someone can use? I hear that a lot and researched it a bit too
Yea it's the strongest I've seen. I know getting kicked with one in the gut is terrible, stops you in your tracks.
I once ran over a guy on the street with my Suzuki Sidekick... devastating!
How can i LOSSEN my
hip flexers?I have tight
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Its hard to say without seeing you particular issue, but an overall good recommendation for most people would be adding 90/90 hip rotations (also called shin box), couch stretches, and an elevated pigeon stretch. This will loosen up the hips in most people, though I've also seen people who need to really focus on lengthening the adductors, in which case horse stances or wide, bodyweight sumo squats are really helpful as well.
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Bruce's side kick was awesome. I think muay thai sidekick is very effective. But you've forgotten to explain about shoulder position duringthe kick. 5:36 it doesn't suit to show proud & rude person with wickr sXx in a fighting related video.
Not gonna lie, I've got no idea what a person with "wickr sXx" is. Figured it's a typo but maybe it's just something I'm unaware of. I also don't know who the proud and rude person is, Bruce Lee maybe your referring to?
I've gotten koed twice by a sidekick
Does the rear foot pivot on the toes or heel?
On the ball of the foot and the toes.
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When is the art of the seoi nage
And you have people like Icy Mike and Ramsey saying the side kick is useless - in their bid to put down Bruce Lee.
Most powerful kick is back kick
Please talk about flexibility and splits
Dude it would be so cool if you did a video explaing long and short range concepts that ATG uses, keegan Smith explains it realy well on his channel i think youd find it interesting 😅
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What happened to the video you posted on how to talk with the universe. I saw the notification but I was busy at the time, the notification never returned, I came to check and it was not up. Please, I really want to watch it
Might have been another channel, I don't have one like that. Though I'll be doing some videos on internal martial arts and ancient mysticism in the near future.
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@@PeterKouris The video you saw looked like my style?
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I feel so bad for using this kick in sparing
yea, this one has to be done carefully. I always try to just lightly strike so my training partner knows it would have landed. Unless of course we agreed on hard sparring ahead of time.
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hit with the heal not the 'blade' of the foot. imo much better.
How come these videos never show Mike Tyson doing this push up?😅
i thought the strongest kick was back kick
I wouldnt say it isnt, honestly the back kick and side kick are nearly the same kick with only minor difference. I feel like back kick is really solid but doesnt seem as explosive as the side kick for most people. Both are really powerful kicks though
@@moversodyssey yeah because you have more overall strength but its very hard to actually use in a fight. But most martial artist say it is strongest because your glutes are the biggest muscles in your entire body
Isn’t back kick stronger
roundhose of muay thai is most powerfull kick of the world
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I love muay thai and it's round kick, I use it more often than side kicks and it's certainly a very hard kick, wouldn't take anything away from it...but no way it's stronger than a well placed spinning side kick. Dems just the facts
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I watch your videos to learn how to draw more than actual drawing videos. I now have a better respect for stick figures.
Lol. The quickest way to sketch I've found is to gesture draw with a head, rib cage, and a pelvis (usually just a circle or squarish shape), a line for the spine, two circles for the shoulders and lines for the legs and arms. If it all looks proportional and in the right pose you can then flesh it out.
But everyone ends up finding a different mannequin they like to gesture draw with.
Thank you for the awesome drawing advice. I really appreciate it. (And on how to sidekick).
@@mr1ddub No problem, good luck with your art!
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And one of the most useless. Don't use it against anyone good. Stick to round house kicks and front kicks.
NOT THE MOST POWERFUL KICK.
I hear a lot of people argue its the back kick or round kick, and in some situations thats true. But for me, I definitely produce the most power with a spinning side kick.
@@moversodyssey SPINNING SIDE KICK ... I AGREE . THE MOST POWERFUL KICK. IT IS ALSO A MATTER OF TIMING AND COORDONATION TO GET THE MAXIMUM POWER .
@moversodyssey in your opinion could the "strongest kick" vary by gender? I'm just wondering if a lower centre of gravity would change any of the factors that contribute to a strong kick. 🤔
@@KimomoDragon Gender ? Don t understand your idea . Males are stronger then females , Don t know about other gender .
@@KimomoDragon Hmmm.... well, if your center of gravity is lower compared to that of your opponent you will have an advantage in terms of power when kicking to the legs. So it might not change your overall power for each kick, but it may change the relative power your able to utilize against an opponent.
It would also mean you need more upward thrust when kicking to the body or head, but honestly upward thrust is usually easiest to achieve with the side kick anyway.
So, I guess I would assume it mainly benefits you if you can use lower kicks and inside kicks, but probably would change the power much when just kicking a heavy bag.
So , karate doesn't exist
This comment confused me.
Really Bruce Lee made this kick popular?? Like you know how long the sidekick has been around in karate Taekwondo and kung fu? It's kind of like how people say Bruce Lee what's the grandfather of MMA when really he wasn't
It may have been around for thousands of years, but to the modern, western, mainstream consciousness, it wasn't well known until Bruce Lee popularized it and eastern martial arts in general. It was because of his hollywood movies that karate and kung fu experienced an explosion of popularity in the U.S., without which it would probably still be a fringe community. Yoga and kettlebells were around for centuries as well, doesn't mean people here were aware of it until recently.