How to Instantly Increase Kick Height and Power (It's Not Flexibility)
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- In this video I breakdown the vital areas you need to focus upon in order to improve your kicking techniques.
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00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Why flexibility is only a part of the puzzle
02:00 - The three key areas to focus upon to improve kicking
02:38 - The problem with overly focussing on flexibility
03:50 - The problem with overly focussing on strength & conditioning
05:21 - The problem of overly focussing on technique
06:50 - How to develop strength if you're overly flexible
08:32 - How to fix being stiff from too much strength & conditioning
10:04 - How to build strength & flexibility onto your kicks - Спорт
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Man you have IT!!! You're ability to not only do it but also point out the nuances and details to do it effectively and efficiently is second to none... Very impressive
Very meaningful comment thanks man! I appreciate it
A horse stance done with proper and correct form can increase flexibility fast while still maintaining muscle,tendon, fascia strength. It’s better than forcing a split and getting injured. Give it a try.
I started doing horse stance on my own a few weeks ago and it completely unlocked my psoas and hips.
@@heliomachit5651 amazing. Aim for 20 mins or more if you can. Weight on the midfoot, avoid the heels.
just spending time in the horse stance?
Excellent philosophy on kicking and flexibility (or the obsession that some have with static flexibility) I absolutely agree 100 percent, I’m a better kicker now that I’m older and slightly less flexible from a static flexibility standpoint then I was as a younger martial artist who was really flexible
This is so interesting! Conventional wisdom would say the opposite - but as we know that doesn't necessarily mean it's true! I think the issue also lies in the fact that there's a large misunderstanding on even what a good kick is. It's so more than just a leg in the air and a bit of flexibility.
@@grantstevensma it’s more about dynamic stretching/flexibility, and even more importantly good technique, posture, alignment,balance, if you have those things your body will adapt to what’s necessary from a flexibility standpoint
Can you film a full week of training for us? I think it would be very interesting to see how you split your own training. Keep up the great work.
Excellent video as always Grant !
I'm 35 and never tried any martial arts, yet I really enjoy this channel. Makes one want to try it out!
Everyone should train martial arts, regardless of age or background
Try it out man. It's been a huge blessing in my life. Currently taking judo.
I don’t understand. Don’t most people just kick lower with proper technique and increase their height as their flexibility increases? Why would the instructors allow his student to kick with poor technique at the beginning?
Thanks for sharing these great tips.
Great video. To the point, which I highly appreciate. Thanks for sharing.
This was put together extremely well. Wai. 🙏
Great video 👍
Great video thanks!
Hi Grant !
Really liked the VOD as always , super helpful and detailled !
Already following your conditionning circuit to improve my cardio, and will add this routine to my trainings.
Thanks a lot for the quality content you gave us, and keep us updated for the course you're building !
Amazing! Thanks for the kind words and yes I will it will be released in a couple of months
These vids are great, really useful keep going so true.
As a don 🗝️ new to kicking and mma I needed this.
Very articulate breakdown. Love it!! Modern martial arts is lacking these aspects. Subscribed!!❤
Thank you brother! It's nice to have people appreciate the work on such a level.
I really appreciate the attention to detail in your content. Suitable for all your followers to benefit from.
Thank you man
Great video man! appreciate the time & effort you put into this vids!, I’ve been struggling with my kicks lately in terms of pivoting. It’s gotten a lot better but still needs work and I have to put more emphasis on my strength training like those leg holds! & also flexibility I’m a little ambitious cause I wanna peform basically splits kicks standing on one leg!
Yeah man, you can certainly do this but it has to be balanced as the video suggests. However saying that, I haven't seen anyone off the top of my head that I've seen perform say a standing split kick like that, who also has good explosiveness. They're usually slow
legend. super helpful video. i've been incorporating your slow kicking drills and my roundhouse + side kick has improved massively. still stiff when trying to head kick from punching range so will use this video to improve. keep the quality content coming grant, thank you!
Amazing man, glad it's helped ✌
Excellent. I taught TKD for over 4 decades. I would say though, at 60 yo now, my personal routine focuses more on maintaining attributes such as strength, flexibility and endurance. When I kick the air it is at a medium speed, just fast enough that the timing and sequence of the kick happens correctly. I do far less fast kicking in the air. That is reserved for target and bag work. At some stage of your life, you own the technique you have practiced. This is why having great instruction from the beginning is critical to long term training.
Good stuff, helpfull thanking U
Amazing video I’ve seen a lot of MMA fighters with grappling backgrounds who are very strong but lack the flexibility and they’re training their kicks and kickboxing styles, but they are not doing the stretches at all especially after or for multiple sets for long holds and this is what simply it takes to achieve good for that atchetype
Thanks brother and you're very right about that. It needs an approach inclusive of all elements
You are the man! As a middle-aged martial artist, I swore I could handle your stuff while watching the first quarter of your video. But, my lord! Your spinning back kicks are tight as hell. I can imagine how many people you caught with that kick...do your thing champ.
Thank you brother
Man I cannot express just how fantastic the quality of your content is, in pretty much every way. Not only that, but how you cover such useful topics that are perfect for anyone like beginners like me (at least to anything besides punching :P), all the way up to the very highest level - at least it certainly seems! I feel confident saying the latter as while im far from high level in the things that I *do* know, your content *keeps on* aiding me oh so greatly in that area too. o7.
Thank you very much brother! I'm glad you're finding the content helpful. Please let me know what else you'd find valuable so I can make content around that
Great video Grant!
Those slow kicking drills are gold as warm up, my hips feel great afterwards. I totally recommend a few rounds before sparring or padwork, after some general warm-up though.
One last thing, among all those stretches, I'd add some for the hip flexors such as a low lunge or a frontsplit variation, this way you get the legs stretched from all sides. Keep the good stuff up!
That's epic bro! I'm glad you've found value in the content and implemented the drills for yourself
Awesome video...
It makes so much sense.
Iv been training martial arts 27 years
I totally agree..some classes focus on one or 2 things
And miss out so much...
Very true and interesting to hear someone with such training experience notice the same thing.
Don’t usually leave comments but this is so well put together man keeping making these
Thank you brother
Great video, great channel
Thank you bro
Grateful for learning from someone who has the actual ability and is able to teach it in a clearly defined manner. Thank you Grant for sharing!
Thanks man! I think that's something missing in a lot of martial artists, is both parts of that puzzle
@@grantstevensma Keep up the great work! You're bringing so much value to others especially to those who want to learn and improve themselves. 🙏🤜
I very agree on 3:14. It's ok to have a style, or a favorite. Just be unpredictable on when you can (and should) switch it up a little in order to adapt. It just means you can dd more layers to your opponent's thought process
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Amazing
Great video, great info. What are your thoughts on dynamic stretches(swinging straight leg forward, side or back)? Which I see you doing but not really mention in this video. Which I do think is important for some of the archetypes you mention, especially for those focused on strength and conditioning. Your thoughts? Slow kicking drills are definitely a game changer. Thanks for the great content you put out there.
Thanks! Yeh dynamic stretching is absolutely vital and I always do it before every session and just randomly throughout the day because it's easy and doesn't require time/being warmed up.
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I guess i was a lucky one i was power lifting and martial arts tournaments while holding down a full time job working 8 to 10 hour days 6 days a week then going home, 1/2 getting something to eat and shower then going to martial arts and doing that for 2 hours last hour was doing BJJ and working out with the MMA guys then going to the gym 1 hr session of compound heavy lifts. Back home and sleeping for 4 hours then doing it all over again the next day did that for 15 years before 08. It was a life time goal to become a instructor, DID that Bucket list check.
i've always found myself ending up in the third archetype, i can kick high but with some effort usually meaning i lean "back" too much
yeh 100% That can either be a bit of flexibility but also weakness in the obliques in the sense they lack the strength to hold your body more upright
when i raise my leg out to the side i get to a point where i feel like the bone ball and socket meet, i also feel this when trying to perform box splits, its not a sensation like stretching.
I've tried opening up the leg and turning it outward as i do this, also by leaning forwards to tilt my pelvis area.
do you understand what I mean? IF so do you have any thoughts or suggestions?
thank you for the video and the other one you linked, your style and delivery is clear, calm and easy to digest. thanks again
Thanks for the comment brother. This is quite a common issue that you're experiencing. I'm not sure if you've tried this, but I suggest applying what this guy talks about here:
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@@grantstevensma ohhh yeah ok this makes sense! Now I'm stretching the inner thigh instead of feeling like I've got bone on bone in my hip
hero thank you!!
What do you think of an opinion that dynamic stretching (e.g. leg raises in all directions) is better than static stretches in terms of building kicking flexibility?
The reference is a book called "Stretching Scientifically" by Thomas Kurz
I always laugh my ass off watching you intentionally do techniques wrong, Another great video as always
Sometimes I watch it back and think 'damn... that wasn't actually bad enough!' LOL
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You should open up a gym and teach! You would end up training elites! You know your stuff and can teach it!
Thank you brother, perhaps this would be something I could pursue in future
i feel a bit called out right there... i did tkd for a long time, i stopped at some point and went to judo, very little stretching in judo so i lost nearly all of my flexibility. and yeah, can barely do a 90deg split, yet i can still kick strong and fast to the head.
I don't know if I understand? You said you feel called out, yet agreed that although you lost static flexibility, you can still kick well to the head which is what I was getting at in the video.
@@grantstevensma i'm just joking about the video being very accurate for me. maybe i should have used a different expression from "called out".
@cypobos Oh sweet, I get it! This is good news though, meant my point about it was on the money!
I came here to see how others got their kick height and if i did it the same way.
Kinetic chain. Thats what you mean by too flexible, nnot snappy, no power.
Wrong. Flexibility IS the key.