Thing is. Wouldn't you also be exhausted to the poin when it would be hard to do one without telegraphing it too much? I think this is the main problem with using sweep kicks in a real fight
@@panlis6243 if you know how to fight you just dodge or block until your STUPID oponent Is exhousted and then you can take your advantege, in this case you can use this type of kicks. But Its still hard to hit it good
@@panlis6243 a vast majority of people don't get much cardio in so as long as you're putting in the effort to improve, or even just maintain your endurance you should outlast most people. Most street fights don't last more than a minute, both people generally gas out around 30-45 seconds so I'd say a guy who's used to fighting for up to an hour at a time in 5-10 minute increments would still have a full tank by the time the other guy gasses out.
Sweep kicks don't work when: - too slow(enemy dodges) - person is heavier than you(unless running or sprinting straight at you) Sweep kicks work when: - done quickly - better if unexpected, like, by surprise, especially as a counter to a high kick - person is not heavier than you - opponent is running or sprinting at you, no matter how heavy, it's a definite success if done quickly Yes, I have done this before, I totally know how it works
The sweep kicks, both forward and backwards, are used as a counter to higher kicks in Pencak Silat. They are effective at the right moment, as are most martial arts techniques
@@yhnah1329 that's because it *is* hard to to time and very risky. If you miss, you're wide open for a counter. Yet I've seen it work a multitude of times in mixed tournaments. Very cool stuff
@@Peppipedia This is my go to if I see someone starting to spin on me. If you start the moment they take their eyes off you, by the time they get their eyes back on you to aim the kick, you've got them. You got all the time in the world it feels like.
@@Peppipediaalso there is always the threat of somebody fainting a kick or kicking low instead of high, that could knockout someone attempting to sweep. Would be way better to try to block and catch the leg to throw instead.
@@flowrepins6663 true, but someone is not gonna mindgame like that unless they expect the sweep. It's the surprise of the technique that makes it so effective
Sweep kicks are definitely something that have to be setup. Your opponent either has to be exhausted or caught by surprise which is hard with a movement that has so much build up. Love your content man!
I second this. I would also like to add that training the timing, knowing your leg bone lengths as well as your femur internal and external rotation is also very important. Firing them off in clinches and during steps are the ideal, even as counter retreating steps but again, timing is key.
At Fergusson vs Gaethje, UFC 249 Tony landed a nice sweep kick after landing about a dozen jabs on Justin’s lead leg. Later in the fight when he was performing the level change, Justin was expecting another weird jab and instead he got swept like a dust bunny. But Tony paid for it by leaving with his eye flattened like a pancake.
Не did leg jab for immanari roll, as soon as Justin stops to react at it being too tired of defending himself from takedown it should be immanari roll and takedown but yeah Tony was too broken at that point
@@nathearn Nat. I think done with your speed/skill it could work but not as an attack as even perhaps with a punch set-up it would be rather telegraphed. The way to use that would be a counter to a high kick and sweep the supporting leg. This would require some good timing but then many things in fighting do.
Not really, but it's kinda cool if that works for you A few more tips Sweep kicks don't work when: - too slow(enemy dodges) - person is heavier than you(unless running or sprinting straight at you) Sweep kicks work when: - done quickly - better if unexpected, like, by surprise, especially as a counter to a high kick - person is not heavier than you - opponent is running or sprinting at you, no matter how heavy, it's a definite success if done quickly Yes, I have done this before, I totally know how it works
@@cvsasukeuchiha3051 everytime I did it to my friend during a friendly sparring, my friend always get his shin hurt and have to jump for a while which then i could take him down easily
I've done this in muay thai sparring before. kick them a ton of times in the calf and thigh and have them walk to you when you gauge your distance and bam sweep kick trip
I Love your videos, they always give me a smile, i prefer Judo because it's in my own experience has a big diversity and i found a way to combine a bit of Boxing with it
yeah real when they’re incredibly open and u study the leg sweep and can do it fast af it’s not that bad, but always circumstantial and as he said it’s just not the best idea
The only time I actually used a sweep kick in a fight was actually pretty funny, cuz I was at a group home and buddy said I could a single free shot. So I told him I was gonna catch him in the jaw, he put a guard up and didn't see me going down until he was on the ground lmao
I believe the back sweep kick can work very well as a sort of catch-all counter to pretty much any attack your opponent is throwing at you. You're moving all your juicy targets out of attack range for it. You probably just need to think of it as a close-range attack, instead of imagining your heel getting them
My favourite sweep is when your opponent does some high checks to block your kicks. Once you see them doing this do a sweep under there check aiming for the standing leg.
I've landed the tiger tail in kickboxing sparring a couple times. I set it up like a round kick + wheel kick usually. Works well on someone who wants to try and lean back and get you before you reorient. Gotta set it up by throwing the round+wheel once or twice and if they're reacting the way you like to it then send 'er
Sweep kicks work one way to set it up: Taunt them into a front kick to your stomack by opening your guard a bit. While they proceed to execute the kick. Absorb the kick by following the movement with your foreman (gedan barai, like i said follow it don't block it) Then use that momentum to spin go down and sweep. Another one to set it up is after they do a roundhouse kick just before the put their foot in contact to the ground you sweep it. There are plenty of way to incorporated a sweep but the key is to always look for a position where they are off balance or the have poor contact with the ground. You can even faint a high kick and sweep.
Bro, ashi barai works wonders, specially when you put them in the middle of punch combinations. Once, I managed to knock my sensei down like that during sparring. He had a huge smile on his face. Top ten martial arts moments in my life
As I already saw someone here saying sweep kicks are used more to counter higher kicks, or to create space, they're used a lot in capoeira to set up other movements because of the momentum they build. but yeah high risk, medium reward (even if landed perfectly), and difficult to land if you don't train ways to set other kicks like a "Meia lua de compassso" or going up and doing a from ground to face spinning back kick (using the previous momentum from the sweep kick). love your videos Nat
Best example of an irl sweep I've seen was the one Clements did on Wonderboy, but I feel like the conditions would have to be perfect for it to work. I've tried a couple time during sparring, but I'm always too slow either reacting or going down,
I’ve seen them work twice in karate tournaments. Once was a forward, and the other was a backwards karate sweep. Just cause you haven’t done doesn’t mean it can’t work.
Thank you for this, so many people think they work. It only works on a opponent with really weak legs with how low that kick comes in. Skinny legs dont always mean weak. Definitely not if theres a weight disadvantage. If placed in the perfect spot it works but in a street fight the risk to reward is not worth risking your life.
Someone I used to train with at karate would sweep so well. Just a quick from leg sweep as you landed on it for a punch. Just enough to knock you off balance. Well timed they can be amazing
If someone is throwing repeated kicks at your head, if you're able to block enough of thrm to grt your bearings, ducking and retaliating agsinst their one leg holding them up sounds fairly solid.
the spinning back kick looking one definitely does work but there's so many other things to just do instead lol(also this would be a counter not a normal "offensive" movement)
I think if you through a punch before hand the moment would carry forward making the sweep less effective; these would be very hard to pull off and I think there are cooler and more effective kicks out there to finish a tired opponent (like the 540)
I do think sweep kicks could be a great way to practice balance, control, spatial awareness and to be able to turn on the ball of your foot, not necessarily better in fights but definitely useful for fights
They actually do work very efficiently you just have to train that kick a lot and idk if it was the angle of the camera but the low spin looked kinda high , try putting ur bag in the ground and balance it and try to low spin as low as you can but not swiping ur feet on the ground and try to flip the bag !
I think it can be use as a dodge and attack at the same time. Mostly when ur opponents doing powerful kicking like roundhouse or spinning backhook. Cause sweeping 1 leg are rather more effective than 2 to off balance ur opponents. Then we can go in for submission to take control.
I actually thought they would never fucking work in a million years, but we had a fighter from Korea stop by the gym to get some sparring in recently and he actually did it successfully a few times. Now i didn't end up on my ass but he did take my lead leg off the ground and it really made me think about it which is half the battle really because he could use it to set something else up like a single leg or a jumping knee. I think the right person could pull it off we used to think spin moves were bullshit a decade ago but now its part and parcel of MMA
Every Skill can work depend if you catch the timing of opponent depend of the combo you use, Obviously it's risky and can be counter but fighting it's risky.
So I made the silly looking sweep kicks work on several occasions you touched on the main usage I have for it, which is the punch leading into the sweep kick, which with a little bit of practice, isn’t super hard, but the main time that I am looking to exploit the silly sweeper in a fight, is when the opponent uses a spinning high kick, and they only have one grounded foot I use the duck/crouch of the sweep kick to get under it and then my leg to take out their one remaining standing leg
I think they would work better if you tried to grab them and pull/push in a way that the sweeps make them fall. Like judo people do. Or to counter if some amateur telegraphs or spam high kicks maybe. Catching the kicking leg to throw them seems more practical.
Last time I experienced that sweep kicks DO work was last Friday when I pissed of my sergeant saying he ain’t bulletproof It was around 0915 and colleagues wake up me at 1700 when our shift ended
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Probably in the late part of the fight when they're more exhausted and conditioned
Thing is. Wouldn't you also be exhausted to the poin when it would be hard to do one without telegraphing it too much? I think this is the main problem with using sweep kicks in a real fight
Check out Tony Ferguson vs Justin Gaethje @@panlis6243
@@panlis6243 that's why I said probably not definitely. Just that it could be possible
@@panlis6243 if you know how to fight you just dodge or block until your STUPID oponent Is exhousted and then you can take your advantege, in this case you can use this type of kicks.
But Its still hard to hit it good
@@panlis6243 a vast majority of people don't get much cardio in so as long as you're putting in the effort to improve, or even just maintain your endurance you should outlast most people. Most street fights don't last more than a minute, both people generally gas out around 30-45 seconds so I'd say a guy who's used to fighting for up to an hour at a time in 5-10 minute increments would still have a full tank by the time the other guy gasses out.
“Sweep kicks, do they work?”
Every kung fu movie: *yes*
Or Lei in Tekken
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Sweep kicks don't work when:
- too slow(enemy dodges)
- person is heavier than you(unless running or sprinting straight at you)
Sweep kicks work when:
- done quickly
- better if unexpected, like, by surprise, especially as a counter to a high kick
- person is not heavier than you
- opponent is running or sprinting at you, no matter how heavy, it's a definite success if done quickly
Yes, I have done this before, I totally know how it works
E.g. the spamming sweep kicks scene in the last Mortal Kombat movie 😂
if you eve been jumped and know how to fight, you know they work.
The sweep kicks, both forward and backwards, are used as a counter to higher kicks in Pencak Silat. They are effective at the right moment, as are most martial arts techniques
That is incredibly hard to time tho, I don't think I've seen a single MMA fight where someone has even attempted that
@@yhnah1329 that's because it *is* hard to to time and very risky. If you miss, you're wide open for a counter. Yet I've seen it work a multitude of times in mixed tournaments. Very cool stuff
@@Peppipedia This is my go to if I see someone starting to spin on me. If you start the moment they take their eyes off you, by the time they get their eyes back on you to aim the kick, you've got them. You got all the time in the world it feels like.
@@Peppipediaalso there is always the threat of somebody fainting a kick or kicking low instead of high, that could knockout someone attempting to sweep. Would be way better to try to block and catch the leg to throw instead.
@@flowrepins6663 true, but someone is not gonna mindgame like that unless they expect the sweep. It's the surprise of the technique that makes it so effective
Sweep kicks are definitely something that have to be setup. Your opponent either has to be exhausted or caught by surprise which is hard with a movement that has so much build up. Love your content man!
A simple hook sweep is much easier, honestly.
I second this. I would also like to add that training the timing, knowing your leg bone lengths as well as your femur internal and external rotation is also very important. Firing them off in clinches and during steps are the ideal, even as counter retreating steps but again, timing is key.
Setup like in a show or moovie
At Fergusson vs Gaethje, UFC 249 Tony landed a nice sweep kick after landing about a dozen jabs on Justin’s lead leg. Later in the fight when he was performing the level change, Justin was expecting another weird jab and instead he got swept like a dust bunny. But Tony paid for it by leaving with his eye flattened like a pancake.
I watched that sequence a while ago, it looked like the kick also hurt Tony just enough that he couldn’t follow it up.
Chris Clements I think swept Stephen fucking Thompson off his feet with one
Не did leg jab for immanari roll, as soon as Justin stops to react at it being too tired of defending himself from takedown it should be immanari roll and takedown but yeah Tony was too broken at that point
You are my favorite martial art youtuber Nat. Please keep going👊
Thank you that means a lot👊
@@nathearn Nat.
I think done with your speed/skill it could work but not as an attack as even perhaps with a punch set-up it would be rather telegraphed.
The way to use that would be a counter to a high kick and sweep the supporting leg.
This would require some good timing but then many things in fighting do.
Sweep can work just use them wisely 👌
Seen someone use a low to the ground sweep kick against someone mid kick. They only had one leg on the ground so it was easy to knock them down
Sweep kicks, do they work?
Every mishima ever: Yes
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Thanks man🤝
he's faster than I can blink.
@@nathearn You are awesome and my favourite karate
Particularly useful in a clinch where you can move them around and then sweep the leg they put weight on when moved
I once used these, they definitely works, but only if you know how to put effort into it by doing it fast and powerful then yes very easy takedown
Not really, but it's kinda cool if that works for you
A few more tips
Sweep kicks don't work when:
- too slow(enemy dodges)
- person is heavier than you(unless running or sprinting straight at you)
Sweep kicks work when:
- done quickly
- better if unexpected, like, by surprise, especially as a counter to a high kick
- person is not heavier than you
- opponent is running or sprinting at you, no matter how heavy, it's a definite success if done quickly
Yes, I have done this before, I totally know how it works
@@cvsasukeuchiha3051 everytime I did it to my friend during a friendly sparring, my friend always get his shin hurt and have to jump for a while which then i could take him down easily
In the forms, the 'dragon tail' sweep is usually a leg entanglement. so a takedown rather than a striking tool. Ramsey Dewey has a great vid on them.
I've done this in muay thai sparring before. kick them a ton of times in the calf and thigh and have them walk to you when you gauge your distance and bam sweep kick trip
Remember it is not about making them fall but getting them off balance falling is a cool side effect
If you yell "HI YAW!" while you are sweeping, guaranteed youll look cooler
I like hook sweeps because I used to do Jiu-Jitsu
I have used sweep kicks. We were actually playing around but I pulled my buddies off their feet, taking them by surprise
They do work, extremely effectively
in Tekken
Also shadow fight 1,2,3,4,Shades.
Street fighter as well
@@user-fd5qz6nv7g love it
Gosh it's just so aesthetic to watch 😊
Dude is a fricking ninja!! I love sweeps. Your sweeps look so cool.
Thank you bro!!💪
Why did I watch this 20 times? Smooooth.
Thank you😎
Thank you😎
I Love your videos, they always give me a smile, i prefer Judo because it's in my own experience has a big diversity and i found a way to combine a bit of Boxing with it
Much better as counter, when opponents are standing on one leg when kicking
When someone throw a roundhouse, yeah it works
yeah real when they’re incredibly open and u study the leg sweep and can do it fast af it’s not that bad, but always circumstantial and as he said it’s just not the best idea
@@alexthejew420 yesir
The only time I actually used a sweep kick in a fight was actually pretty funny, cuz I was at a group home and buddy said I could a single free shot. So I told him I was gonna catch him in the jaw, he put a guard up and didn't see me going down until he was on the ground lmao
Sweep kicks are my signature moves
Very cool sweeps tbh, I feel if timed very well, they can work.
Thank you, and yes I’d timed perfectly👍
Thats really good :D
Thank you👊
your videos are amazing ❤❤
Sweep kicks might work, it might not work, but we all know are they look cools as hell when you got it
Smoothest sweep kick ive seen
Beautiful is key i was thought it work in real fights until i do it with my brother
It always helps if you catch them standing on one foot
Facts I was about to say the same
I believe the back sweep kick can work very well as a sort of catch-all counter to pretty much any attack your opponent is throwing at you. You're moving all your juicy targets out of attack range for it. You probably just need to think of it as a close-range attack, instead of imagining your heel getting them
The one kick i always had a problem doing
Effective when your enemy only use one leg stance,if your enemy use mawashi Geri it's very efficient
Role from capoeira absolutely works
My favourite sweep is when your opponent does some high checks to block your kicks. Once you see them doing this do a sweep under there check aiming for the standing leg.
You are the GOAT!
They are good in movies. I love it when I see it
Bro make a video on how to strengthen the legs for the kicks and also some stretches to do on a regular basis for the flexibility ❤️❤️
I've landed the tiger tail in kickboxing sparring a couple times. I set it up like a round kick + wheel kick usually. Works well on someone who wants to try and lean back and get you before you reorient. Gotta set it up by throwing the round+wheel once or twice and if they're reacting the way you like to it then send 'er
Sweep kicks are for countering kicks I guess... If an opponent kicks you, they only stand with one leg, so take that opportunity to use the sweep kick
Most sweeps bar the Thai sweep cane from kung fu n karate . Lau gar kickboxing that was huge in the UK in the 80s had some good sweeps
Capoiera has some nice low sweeps
Used this on my friends 😅
Thank you for this video.
No problem👊
Sweep kicks are one of my favourite techniques but only work in some situations
Seen it happen once in the UFC 😂 Fergusson vs Gaethje
Haha, the fight where Ferguson threw Pocket Sand 😂
True👍
You can also use sweeps when the opponent tries to jump kick you so when they fall back down, you time it and then sweep them off balance.
barai is preety damn good especially in judo
I would say they could work against similary large arc attacks such as spinning hook kick. Because technicaly it is sthe same thing but on the ground
Sweep kicks work one way to set it up:
Taunt them into a front kick to your stomack by opening your guard a bit.
While they proceed to execute the kick. Absorb the kick by following the movement with your foreman (gedan barai, like i said follow it don't block it)
Then use that momentum to spin go down and sweep.
Another one to set it up is after they do a roundhouse kick just before the put their foot in contact to the ground you sweep it.
There are plenty of way to incorporated a sweep but the key is to always look for a position where they are off balance or the have poor contact with the ground.
You can even faint a high kick and sweep.
Bro, ashi barai works wonders, specially when you put them in the middle of punch combinations.
Once, I managed to knock my sensei down like that during sparring. He had a huge smile on his face. Top ten martial arts moments in my life
a standing sweep into the other sweep should work
As I already saw someone here saying sweep kicks are used more to counter higher kicks, or to create space, they're used a lot in capoeira to set up other movements because of the momentum they build. but yeah high risk, medium reward (even if landed perfectly), and difficult to land if you don't train ways to set other kicks like a "Meia lua de compassso" or going up and doing a from ground to face spinning back kick (using the previous momentum from the sweep kick).
love your videos Nat
Best example of an irl sweep I've seen was the one Clements did on Wonderboy, but I feel like the conditions would have to be perfect for it to work. I've tried a couple time during sparring, but I'm always too slow either reacting or going down,
thank you because you just gave me 2 more moves in my MMA arsenal 🥳
I’ve seen them work twice in karate tournaments. Once was a forward, and the other was a backwards karate sweep. Just cause you haven’t done doesn’t mean it can’t work.
Bro I play karate and i am truly amazed with you saying 'Ashi brai'
I have used it once and it work
All you need is timing
I wouldn't ever use low sweep kicks in a street fight, I'd probably mess up and get beat up
That’s fair👍
Thank you for this, so many people think they work. It only works on a opponent with really weak legs with how low that kick comes in. Skinny legs dont always mean weak. Definitely not if theres a weight disadvantage. If placed in the perfect spot it works but in a street fight the risk to reward is not worth risking your life.
You’re welcome👊
to be fair if you pull out one of these in a street fight the opp will be scared af
Thanks, I was just wondering about Kazuya's 3 in a row
Someone I used to train with at karate would sweep so well. Just a quick from leg sweep as you landed on it for a punch. Just enough to knock you off balance. Well timed they can be amazing
Shadow Fight games: nuh uh they do
Sweep kick is silat's signature move, and you gotta do that fast and put leg so low that when you get up the opponent got down
Fergusson hit one of these 🔥
Yes. There in various martial especially everyone favorite muay thai
I always think that they could be useful, but it is very risky and difficult for it to happen.
Bro STOLE MY HOODIE.
I’ll probably do that when my opponent is off balance
I think the best situation to do a sweep is when your opponent does a roundhouse
I've had a sweep keep take me down but I was also putting way too much weight on my lead foot.
every shadow fight 2 gamers: yes, u just need to use it at the right time.
If someone is throwing repeated kicks at your head, if you're able to block enough of thrm to grt your bearings, ducking and retaliating agsinst their one leg holding them up sounds fairly solid.
Bro is Zuko IRL
Sweep kicks work pretty well when you're playing twister. They said it was cheating but it was the only way I could've moved right foot to blue
the spinning back kick looking one definitely does work but there's so many other things to just do instead lol(also this would be a counter not a normal "offensive" movement)
I think if you through a punch before hand the moment would carry forward making the sweep less effective; these would be very hard to pull off and I think there are cooler and more effective kicks out there to finish a tired opponent (like the 540)
I do think sweep kicks could be a great way to practice balance, control, spatial awareness and to be able to turn on the ball of your foot, not necessarily better in fights but definitely useful for fights
Sweeps work. The hard part is doing it at the right time, with good technique.
Works really good when the opponent has already kicked and misse thus standing on only one leg
A guy hit wonderboy with the dragon tail sweep once. They work if you make it work. Just like everything else
They actually do work very efficiently you just have to train that kick a lot and idk if it was the angle of the camera but the low spin looked kinda high , try putting ur bag in the ground and balance it and try to low spin as low as you can but not swiping ur feet on the ground and try to flip the bag !
I've never seen one of those in an mma fight and it's a shame, it seems fun
Havent u seen Tony Ferguson he did it in a ufc fight even some guy did that kick on Wonderboy and caugth him of gaurd
If my ops got no idea what they doing and I’m feeling kinda funky I might pull this out. 🥶🥶
I think it can be use as a dodge and attack at the same time. Mostly when ur opponents doing powerful kicking like roundhouse or spinning backhook. Cause sweeping 1 leg are rather more effective than 2 to off balance ur opponents. Then we can go in for submission to take control.
Capoeira: **laughing in portuguese**
I actually thought they would never fucking work in a million years, but we had a fighter from Korea stop by the gym to get some sparring in recently and he actually did it successfully a few times.
Now i didn't end up on my ass but he did take my lead leg off the ground and it really made me think about it which is half the battle really because he could use it to set something else up like a single leg or a jumping knee. I think the right person could pull it off we used to think spin moves were bullshit a decade ago but now its part and parcel of MMA
Every Skill can work depend if you catch the timing of opponent depend of the combo you use, Obviously it's risky and can be counter but fighting it's risky.
Yeah I agree👍
Leg kicks before sweeping might work well
Thanks man
You’re welcome bro
So I made the silly looking sweep kicks work on several occasions you touched on the main usage I have for it, which is the punch leading into the sweep kick, which with a little bit of practice, isn’t super hard, but the main time that I am looking to exploit the silly sweeper in a fight, is when the opponent uses a spinning high kick, and they only have one grounded foot I use the duck/crouch of the sweep kick to get under it and then my leg to take out their one remaining standing leg
I think they would work better if you tried to grab them and pull/push in a way that the sweeps make them fall. Like judo people do. Or to counter if some amateur telegraphs or spam high kicks maybe. Catching the kicking leg to throw them seems more practical.
Last time I experienced that sweep kicks DO work was last Friday when I pissed of my sergeant saying he ain’t bulletproof
It was around 0915 and colleagues wake up me at 1700 when our shift ended
Tony Ferguson landed one on Gaethje, but this is Tony we’re talking about…
I was sweep kicked for no reason in 4th grade, it worked
They do but are risky when used offensively instead of defensively