Bas is right if your only throwing a single kick, if your gonna throw 2 or more kicks back to back you need to pivot on your lead foot or you will not be able to reset between kicks and keep your balance. Watch their feet (they were both world champions)
Good description Qwerty, the only other thing I can add is when the kick ends e.g hits the target, your front foot left in this case, should be facing almost behind you as pivot left on the ball of your foot and turn your hips in same direction, this should be 1 fluid motion through the target, instead of hitting it and pulling away when you do so. As your quite a big fella you should be able to do some good damage when you learn the right technique.
This is true if your kicking a banana bag or a human body but usually when your kicking a heavybag the circumference of it is a lot bigger than a body so even a perfectly placed kick will have some foot contact and make a pop instead of a thud. The bag I usually kick is so big that if I kick it to make a thud per say, I would have knee contact lol
Ha ha, I'm from the U.K we haven't progressed to kicking heavy bags yet, we still practice on the weekends by kicking idiots out of nightclubs. But yes it's my bad, I spoke about kicking thai pads but you are right about where the foot meets the shin bone if your kicking the heavy bag.This is true if your kicking a banana bag or a human body but usually when your kicking a heavybag the circumference of it is a lot bigger than a body so even a perfectly placed kick will have some foot contact and make a pop instead of a thud. The bag I usually kick is so big that if I kick it to make a thud per say, I would have knee contact lol
I am the guy in the video and what you don't know is that I had just completed 3 - 5 minute rounds on the bag before that. If you'll notice, I was a little winded before I even started. My conditioning isnt where I want it to be, BUT its MILES better than it was when I first started[/QUOTE]
Thats great to hear! I was trying to help but it sounds like you do 'get it' with the conditioning factor. I went from lifting weights with a little cardio in the gym to a Muay thai class and I couldnt keep up. I thought I was in great shape from working out but I was not able to keep up with the better guys in the class. I was determined and I really liked MT but the conditioning was insane. The warmups which consisted of 40 hand clap pushups, 40 situps and 40 deepknee bends then run for 5 minutes then repeat with a different variations of all those excercises 5x. Finally after that we could partner up and do drills. A lot of guys would come in real late just to miss the warmups. Anyway what im trying to say is the better your conditioning is the better your bag work will become. Sorry if you took what I said as you getting winded as a slight but it wasnt meant to be that way. I had no idea that you had allready been training befor your vid. peace
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