How many different types of kicks are there ?

[Bon]

I'm just wondering how many kicks I do know and can perform compared to the different kicks there are out there. I know of :

 

inner & outer thigh..

 

front kick, lead & back

 

round house, lead & back

 

side kick

 

head height kick

 

spinning back kick

 

crescent(sp?) kick

 

360 spin and crescent kick

 

some kind of 360 kick called a 'helicopter' or 'aerial'

 

I guess if I know 360, a 180 ..

 

kick before moving onto 360, where you jump up, doing a twisting roundhouse sort of thing.

 

run up and back leg for front kick

 

run up, front kick to get height, then powerful front kick with back leg.

 

step up side kick

 

back kick

 

pivot on one foot and twist to put a heel into something behind/on the side of you..

 

jumping spinning back kick

 

jumping back kick

 

This is all I can think of, and I've done them all in kickboxing.. Can anyone else add kicks which I haven't listed here ? Wanna get an idea of what I didn't learn, because I learnt knees, elbows and all the punches.

 

I can think of a flying side kick, which I might have done once ..

 

 

[G95champ]

Why did you not ask how many stars in the sky they are or grains of sand on the beach. LOL .

 

Basic Kicks

 

Front

 

Side

 

Back

 

Roundhouse

 

Cressant

 

Ax

 

Hook

 

To each you can add

 

Sanp

 

Thrust

 

Spin

 

Jump

 

Jump Spin

 

Jump Snap

 

Jump Thrust

 

Spin Snap

 

Spin Thrust

 

Rolling

 

Flipping

 

Also

 

Lead Leg

 

Back Leg

 

On one Knee

 

On Both knees

 

On your back

 

face down

 

laying on your side

 

Also we can break other kicks down to

 

instep

 

Ball of the foot

 

ankel locked

 

or falt part of the foot

 

Heel

 

Calves

 

Then we got all those special things

 

Scissors

 

Maching Gun

 

Split kicks

 

Sweeps

 

Knees

 

Im lost now heck any way you can hit someone with your foot is a kick for me good luck hope you find an answer.....

 

Congrats on the Brown Belt

 

 

[Bon]

lol, thanks =)

 

 

[karatekid1975]

Hey, G, Ya forget a few hehehehe.

 

I know the average martial artists doesn't do these but here's a couple that weren't mentioned: 540, flash kick, ect.

 

Oh and the "flying" (running, jumping) kicks the Tang Soo Do is famous for. Bon mentioned the flying side kick. There's the flying roundhouse, front kick and back kick (which is hard for me to do in the air gggggrrrr). And the famous tornato kick, which is a 360 roundhouse and/or cresent. Oops, that was mentioned.

 

 

[ad]

"dont fear a man who knows a thousand kicks, fear a man who has practiced a kick a thousand times"

 

just something i thought you like to know

 

 

[Jack]

"It takes 100 repititions to learn the kick, 1000 repititions to be proficient in the kick, and 10,000 repitions to master the kick."

 

My Sabumnin said something similar to that a year ago, I can't remember it exactly.

 

 

[karatekid1975]

Jack.

 

That was right. My Tang Soo Do teacher told us that also.

 

 

[rabid hamster]

ad, i heard a quote similar to that. "I do not fear your 10,000 kicks you have practiced once, but your one kick you practiced 10,000 times"

 

about how high would you have to jump to be able to do those flying sidekicks. They look so cool.

[TKD_McGee]

Lmao... funny post....

 

 

[G95champ]

Sorry KarateKid1975 lol. When I first started teaching I though it would be great to make a lost of everything I would ask for on each test. Then I ran into the same problem here. Way to many things to write down and say this is for that belt. So now I just play it by ear. LOL.