how do you feel about round kicks?

[judobrah]

kick question,in your personal opinion how safe woud it be to trow a round kick in lets say a street fight(i am not gona get into any one e.t.c) i am not taking in consederation the person using it,how do you feel about this kick and how useful he can be in real situations,just whant to hear some opinions,btw if you feel like it you can say how frequent and how do you train it

[Zaine]

Roundhouse kicks are probably the easiest kicks to perform, so they're pretty practical. I'd use them.

[judobrah]

kinda feel the same way brah

[Montana]

To the inside/outside knees, inside/outside of the thighs and possibly lower ribs...yes, I'd use them, but no higher.

[Dobbersky]

To the inside/outside knees, inside/outside of the thighs and possibly lower ribs...yes, I'd use them, but no higher.

You will find that a majority of kicks in Clasiscal Karate and Okinawan Kata etc were original taught to delivered no higher than Gedan level, Chudan was a "rare" technique in Kata/Karate.

I believe, please correct me if I am wrong, that it wasn't until the popularity of Tae Kwon Do did Japanese Karate start to add Chudan and Jodan Kicks to its arsenal.

I also believe that Tobo Geri Waza (jumping Kicks) again was a quite recent development within Traditional/Modern Karate

[Montana]

To the inside/outside knees, inside/outside of the thighs and possibly lower ribs...yes, I'd use them, but no higher.

You will find that a majority of kicks in Clasiscal Karate and Okinawan Kata etc were original taught to delivered no higher than Gedan level, Chudan was a "rare" technique in Kata/Karate.

I believe, please correct me if I am wrong, that it wasn't until the popularity of Tae Kwon Do did Japanese Karate start to add Chudan and Jodan Kicks to its arsenal.

I also believe that Tobo Geri Waza (jumping Kicks) again was a quite recent development within Traditional/Modern Karate

Not to stray off topic to much (to late! lol) but there are those of us in old school Okinawan karate that still don';t, and never will, do high kicks. As for jumping kicks, there are a few jumping kicks in kata designed to cover distance, not height.

[Dobbersky]

Roundhouse kicks are probably the easiest kicks to perform, so they're pretty practical. I'd use them.

I'm not too sure about Enshin Kata but Ashihara kata only have Round Kicks depicted in them.

My favourite "round" kick is Jikuashi Geri. I know Kyokushin, Ashihara and Enshin Karateka use this kick

[judobrah]

taekwondo is god

[Montana]

taekwondo is god

God? We'll just assume you meant "good"...ok?

[Wastelander]

kick question,in your personal opinion how safe woud it be to trow a round kick in lets say a street fight(i am not gona get into any one e.t.c) i am not taking in consederation the person using it,how do you feel about this kick and how useful he can be in real situations,just whant to hear some opinions,btw if you feel like it you can say how frequent and how do you train it

Roundhouse kicks are powerful and effective, but tend to take up a lot of space and time to execute to their maximum level of effectiveness. I do like roundhouse kicks and use them quite often in sparring to all levels (particularly to the thighs and ribs, though) but my go-to kicks for both sparring and self defense are front kicks and side kicks as they are faster, more compact, and still very effective.