Knock an Elephant Over With Good Karate Kicks!

Yes, you can knock an elephant on his keister with good Karate kicks. Use these concepts with taekwondo kicks, Savate kicks, or whatever, and with some diehard practice, elephants will tip toe around you! And, if you can knock over a pachyderm or two with a leg, that thug isn't going to any kind of problem.

Now, first things first, it's okay to practice the high and fancy kicks, they will give you flexibility, and that will aid in your power. However, when it comes to the street, you want to stick with the basic kicks that are too low and fast to grab. You want to stick with the front snap kick, the side thrust, the wheel (a snap on the horizontal plane), and a spinning (hopping/popping) side to the rear.

Analyze your kick, make sure that your skeletal structure is aligned. Stand on the part of the foot that you are kicking with to make sure it can deal with the potential impact. You can stand on the ball of the foot, so that front snap kick can support sufficient weight, but you can't stand on a side of the foot comfortably, so it is not going to work.

When you kick, make sure you lift the knee high and tilt the hips into the kick slightly. Lifting the knee high enables you to drive the leg in on the target, if you don't have a high knee the foot may arc and scrape against the target. Tilting the hips, which is done especially with shotokan karate kicks, puts more body weight into the kick.

Practice kicking over a chair, and make sure that you aren't twisting any body parts, which wil de-stablize the leg. Also, keep the tan tien centered over the foot you are balancing on, this will help you keep your balance intact. Also, especially when doing Taekwondo kicks, don't straighten the leg you are standing on, rather bend it and lower yourself slightly, as this will connect you better to the ground.

Now, you can wear karate shoes when you practice your kicks, but don't forget to practice bare foot kicking. If you're out in the park, and your feet need protection, or perhaps you want to be ready for a situation where you can't get your shoes off, then use shoes. But the sensation of kicking with the bare feet gives you mental feedback as to the exact perfect way to use your feet.

Now, the key to everything is to practice, practice until you are ready to drop. Most people think that they can go to nice, polite class, do ten or twenty kicks per foot, and they will be masters of the kicking arts. You need to do hundreds of kicks, thousands of kicks, for each foot, for each kick, and for hundreds of days, thousands of days, if you want to be good.

The leg is a great weapon. It can keep people out of range, set up secondary moves, and, if you have Bruce Lee kicks, end a fight before it even gets started. I promise, you do what I have written here, and your good karate kicks will be making elephant burgers out of those pesky pachyderms!

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