I enjoy the speed of double round houses does any one have suggestions in making them more powerful with out losing any of the speed.

how about full recoil of the kick as you execute it and full extension past your intended target!!

Is a double roundhouse when you do a roundhouse with the back leg, drop it down then do a front roundhouse with the leg you just used in the back ?

 

If this is it, getting that front roundhouse kick back in quickly on an opponent is powerful since they're still recovering from the first one.. that's the whole purpose of the front roundhouse

 

 

Being a big guy I don't like or use many double kicks. Also becasue I am a big guy I can take a lot of solid kicks that most can't take. Thus I catch or trap a lot of kicks espically double ones.

 

I teach my students to only use double with a high low combo because of this fact. Ex kick ribs or face then drop it to the knee or leg as a sweeping or Tia kick.

 

I think a person throwing combo kicks with one leg is really beautiful but I don't or haven't seen it work effectively in real life.

most double kicks are ment to hit low at the knees than kick high giving the impression that it is meant to either seriously injure an opponent or to break their leg and to follow up with a kick to the head. Also I can do powerful double round house but have trouble doing them against a moving target. Is it a mental thing?

It might be. It also could be the timing of the kick and the accuracy. Moving targets are hard to hit no matter how big or small they are!

 

 

Try light ankle weights

 

 

Amen to you G95champ

 

I agree that with practice it can be quite easy to trap and exploite a double kick. One kick partially telegraphs the next I believe.

Anyone heard of Bill Wallace. :brow:

 

He is all off one leg double kicks and everything. At one of his seminars he explained to me that you aim your first kick (with your toes like using the ball of you foot) right to your opponents knot on the belt. This is right on the bladder and very uncomfortable no matter how many sit ups they've done. This will mean they will have to make an definate effort to bloke it and there's you opening, now bring it up to the face. Lovely.

 

Another one i use. Where you like do a rear leg turning kick but you turn firts then bring the leg up and turn your hips into it so it's like a lead leg kick but from the rear, (i'm getting all confusing now )

 

Anyway dumby a rear leg front kick to the groin like a big gestured kick but turn it at the last minute into turning kick to the face. This always sees both there arms drop to block the groin kick and you land the turning kick on there chin. Kinda cheating but works a treat.

 

As for how to develope power, practice practice, practice Try it on a kick sheild.

 

Bretty