More like this! The depth of a simple technique is staggering when viewed like this, and getting to see you pick the brain of masters is just the best! 🤩 Love it!
The way Seth teaches you do sidekick so you can balance yourself after the impact is very practical and easy to use, but you have to land it though. I have a hard time figuring out what to do next after my leg gets "wiped" away (not necessarily the opposite hand catching but just a little brush to direct my feet off the body). Like i tried to lean back more to create distance, i still need to "stand up" right after my front foot hit the ground (so i can push off it to move), but at that moment they can decorate me like a Christmas tree since my core and my head are in the best puching range. 😂
You could try throwing some snappy side kicks, rather than leaning your weight all the way through. They won’t have the same stopping power as a fully weighted side kick, but they will keep you on balance better. Sort of like a jab rather than a hook. They both use the same hand, but serve different purposes.
I'm just so good at kicking that I just pull it back and throw another one. Not to be cocky but I tried to teach others this but they seem to be "just not good enough"
if you have the reflex to pull back and throw another one after the first one is missed, you are wicked good. I can also pull back to chamber but only when my body sits right above my rear leg (which means i put very little weight to the kick, and Seth and Kevin are trying to fix it). What I mean in my first comment is I'm so used to doing it "wrong", and that put me in a very uncomfortable position when trying to make it right. I can throw the kick both ways, but I don't feel confident enough to commit my body weight to the kick.
Jab, turning side kick. Pretty sure I've seen GSP land it before. The jab can be completely noncommittal, almost more of a feint that also hides the early part of the spin.
bro i want to recommended side kick from silat martial art some girl have a super side kick, she is from Indonesia, her name is wewey wita, please see her, she is awesome girl with super side kick
kung fu practitioner here. I love side kicks. They remain my favorite kick. They do require more training than other kicks, but they're my bread and butter for any sort of competition sparring.
How can you box without a jab? Bread and butter. Front leg side kick. Train your timing and try to put people on their butts. I once saw a 135lb Black belt DROP a 225lb Black belt with a front leg side kick. Timing. Just like what wonderboy did to Masvidal. It's a wonderful feeling to pull off in tournament 🙂
Thank you! Well in karate you got 2 variations of the side kick: one is snap side kick and the other is thrusting side kick. The first guy showed more thrusting, jesse i believe showed both and wonder boy actually showed a back kick. All good depends on distance, where you want to hit and if you want to hit to break the bone or just push.
All good points. Another factor is in the order of side snap, side thrust and almost back kick these are increasing order of commitment. More commitment usually translates into more power, but also requiring increased time to recover from it and throw another technique or block your opponent's attack.
Wonder boys was not a back kick. It was a TKD style sidekick. Full chamber. Watch Joe Rogan sidekick footage. Same Same. Seth does it too but he has a big body so it looks different. They are both putting the full hip into the kick, as if you had "turned back". But a true Turn back (TKD style) comes with stepping. Either the front foot steps over and turns 180 or you step through into step turn back. Either way you load up your hips in what Karate stylists like you might call a back kick or donkey kick. Knife blade foot is in the TKD curriculum but not at all emphasized in modern training halls. Also, many tkd throw teep style sidekick which is faster. Push kick doesn't score on modern TKD electronic scoring so the snappy teep is the best for scoring but the worst for displacing the opponents body mass. (I'm Jidokwan TKD since 1980 4th dan since 06)
Check out bill superfoot Wallace he is the front kick master. Everyone has heard of him but his style and approach to the side kick is really original.
I love the way Seth throws it. Like he’s trying to kick through you with his whole body weight behind it. That being said, I’ve never tried Wonderboys. That one looks good too. And Jesse is a master obviously.
Retired tkd 4 dan. we own the side kick, been around 45 years so there's that. Im not seeing a few things that make the sidekick truly devastating, both psychologically and physically. 1) both you and sensei seth have poor flexibility. its easy to jam someone who cannot use his leg as well as qa boxer uses his arm, that means the lower back, hips, it bands and hams need to be incredibly flexible. you both look like you are so tight you are going to fall over from the weight of your foot being out 2) kinetic linking: the foot arrives with the outstep and the hips rock inwards towards the target, they do not turn over the plane. they rock inward to the target. to break bones, think of a whip cracking. its not a bulldozer of a stomp with the bottom of your foot. 3) turning over the plane. again both of you are so lacking in flexibility that you essentially fall over, turning your kick into a back kick, a bad back kick. stop it. by doing so you are halving the power of the sidekick. it feels more to you because you are doing more, but one gets greater power through EFFICIENCY than from adding or speeding up a gross motor movement involving compound joints. Fix these things then we can talk about the kind of dexterity you need once you have mastered the basics of the kick. Keep training guys. its not too late to learn to do it right PS: Jesse was the best of the 3 easily but he doesnt demonstrate how the side kick works but his form was the best. Stephen has his definitions backwards. hes a fantastic fighter but he is demonstrating a back kick, not a side kick
Wonderboy has said in other places that his side kick is like a back kick, he’s aware of the similarities. Also I think it’s worth considering that taekwondo being specialised in kicking does not mean it has the only correct method of doing certain kicks.
Man, if you're trying to learn a good sidekick, its hard to do better than Wonderboy (the most effective sidekick in MMA history) and Enkamp (the most technically exquisite form out there) for teachers.
Getting jammed, as explained in a more vague way in the video, is physics. Get the centre of mass between the base of support and the target, the further back the base of support is, the more energy it will take to move the COM up and over the support given the angle of the support leg. Secondly the inertia of the COM can generate more stability and power; driving your body downward will effectively wedge the planted foot and the contact point on the opponent apart, while also counteracting reactive forces that want to push the body up over the support leg. This is one thing that shorter fighters benefit from, they can land kicks that wedge taller opponents up out of their stance.
There are different ranges of side kick too. Kevin will want to close the distance anyway, so he might be interested to look into one of the side kicks (charn gerk) used in the Buck Sing lineage of Choi Li Fut. In one of the variants I learned, rather than throwing from side on, you close the distance, throw something with your hands as a distraction, raise your knee up like you are going to throw a front kick, and then turn as you throw the kick out. In effect it's a bit more like a highish stomp with the blade of the foot that is aimed at the legs or the hip region.
This video was really useful to me! When it comes to kickboxing i use to feel everybody talks the same and nothing surprises me. But in this video I find interesting approachments of side kick. This a good Christmas gift for 😅haha thank you. Merry Christmas and happy new year.
I think we can do more better kick by using hip push and twisting the ankle of grounded foot But your efforts to exploring martial arts is more impressive 🙏💐
Good point... the side kick has always been a challenge for me... it feels like I can never train it enough to be well done. I even mixed it with capoeira twisted movement, to give it more strength... it gave same effect, as the last theory in this video, to do it from the back, to get better muscles involved...
keeping your hips between your feet to push off of the floor is important for most (really all) grounded kicks. it's got lots of names, but we called it 'buttressing'
I love wonderboy, he might be my cousin actually, but his side kick isn’t a side kick, it’s a back kick, very obviously and even more obviously when he teaches it to you the way he did.
Love sidekicks, was pleased to see Wonderboy use his non kicking leg have the heel to the target! Would be curious to know which chamber is best, i.e the sideways chamber or the front chamber as if it's a front kick but then pivoting the kicking and non kicking legs to do a sidekick, use those hips!
@@theoteddy9665 for thousands of years a side kick is a block defending attacking kick from the ankle until the throat if you put all together you didn't see that
Seth does it very good. Jesse does Shotokan so he has a regular side kick and the snapping one. Thompson is doing a back kick, not really a side kick, though it is a very good alternative as it comes from a different angle. I think the two best ways to use the side kick is with the front leg and a slide forward on the rear leg or with the front leg with a replacement step back leg for front leg and kick. Sometimes this is proceeded with a very short dropping step of the front leg.
@@Docinaplane on 8:00 is the actual application of the technique. Do not just focus on chamber on 6:58 and conclude that the actual technique is a back kick but you may want to listen to his explanation 6:40 so can understand the reason why he is doing that chamber and if you watch carefully on the moment of impact of the kicking foot, the position of the leg and torso and conclude weather it is a back kick or a legit side kick. Remember that Thomson is a blackbelt and a professional karate and mma fighter so he must use advance, modified, or even a hybrid technique that suited for him in order to win fights. You chamber is a basic and basic sometimes do not win fights and what win fights is the advance. If he want to call it a side kick because he develope that technique from his experience as an advance fighter. By your comment, you are implying that he is wrong and you are the one who know better. I did tang so do, karate and jkd and as I knew the back kick is executed by turning the back around 180° and use the rear foot to kick the target and not the front foot. Also try your technique the front foot chamber back kick if you can find it here in youtube. Just type back kick or ushiro geri and watch all the video but sorry cause you will never find even one of your technique the front leg low chamber back kick.
❤Mr. Wonderboy's kick is very similar to the JKD side kick and yes indeed it is very aggressive and very easy to use in any bad situation..❤ Sifu kevin, I can't forget the fight when my car was robbed by 3 people.. I was able to fight easily by using this kick, and I was able to escape from my car.. The police was able to catch the criminals the very next day.. There I got to know who they were.. What I also can't believe is that two of the criminals are former military personnel.. They were special forces soldiers.. I'm practicing and learning Wing Chun under grand master Samuel Kwak.. and also practicing and learning Muay thai, JKD & kali..🙏❤
Wonderboy's side kick is basically a back kick, which has enough power in it (if your base foot is planted properly) to stop a charging opponent and push them away. Add speed to that kick and you have enough impact to catch someone midair as they try a superman punch and knock them 4-8ft backward. Precision and speed are the parts of that kick to practice, since the power will always be there due to so much of your body getting naturally involved in power generation. Kevin, you aren't flexible enough in the inner thigh to throw a proper side kick atm. Every time you tense up to put power in your side kick, your base foot slides forward out of position because you can't get enough of a split. That's why you keep pushing yourself backward. Work on flexibility and practice your side kick by focusing on keeping your back foot planted - don't hop or let it slide forward even a little bit. Instead, "fall forward" at the hip while keeping your base foot planted and then catch your balance with your kicking foot.
Thanks for the tip! But flexibility isn’t an issue for me. I grew up doing wushu as a kid. I can pretty much still do a split. 😅 It’s likely muscle memory from other systems that I trained.
I am sorry but all three are terrible form and no power. I proper side kick can devastate and should cause great damage. The first one was the worst of them all
Merry Christmas everyone! What type of contents would you like to see in 2024?
Love what your doing now. Keep it up. But you're the one making the content, so you're the one who has the last say.
More like this!
The depth of a simple technique is staggering when viewed like this, and getting to see you pick the brain of masters is just the best! 🤩 Love it!
Pick a technique and just expand on it like this video; different setups, different techniques and different uses for fight reads.
A bit more stuff where you teach us stuff you know. Guests are cool, but so are you :)
More and more Wing Chun.
Great video man! Seth uses side kick like a teep, Wonderboy like a jab, Jesse like a knife! All great!
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That’s ridiculously accurate. haha
Jesses chamber and strike looks so effortless
yeah sometimes i forget he is like ultra good in karate@@Kiyan-tl5fy
Couldn't have said it better
The way Seth teaches you do sidekick so you can balance yourself after the impact is very practical and easy to use, but you have to land it though.
I have a hard time figuring out what to do next after my leg gets "wiped" away (not necessarily the opposite hand catching but just a little brush to direct my feet off the body). Like i tried to lean back more to create distance, i still need to "stand up" right after my front foot hit the ground (so i can push off it to move), but at that moment they can decorate me like a Christmas tree since my core and my head are in the best puching range. 😂
You could try throwing some snappy side kicks, rather than leaning your weight all the way through. They won’t have the same stopping power as a fully weighted side kick, but they will keep you on balance better. Sort of like a jab rather than a hook. They both use the same hand, but serve different purposes.
Me personally (and wonderboy too i think) follow up the side kick with a straight punch with the opposite hand. Or a backfist with same hand.
I'm just so good at kicking that I just pull it back and throw another one. Not to be cocky but I tried to teach others this but they seem to be "just not good enough"
if you have the reflex to pull back and throw another one after the first one is missed, you are wicked good.
I can also pull back to chamber but only when my body sits right above my rear leg (which means i put very little weight to the kick, and Seth and Kevin are trying to fix it).
What I mean in my first comment is I'm so used to doing it "wrong", and that put me in a very uncomfortable position when trying to make it right. I can throw the kick both ways, but I don't feel confident enough to commit my body weight to the kick.
btw, Merry Christmas!
does most insane acrobatic karate kicks on TH-cam, then proceeds to walk to punching bag like drunk sasquach... Seth, i love You :D:D:D
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Merry Christmas!!
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Jab, turning side kick. Pretty sure I've seen GSP land it before. The jab can be completely noncommittal, almost more of a feint that also hides the early part of the spin.
bro i want to recommended side kick from silat martial art some girl have a super side kick, she is from Indonesia, her name is wewey wita, please see her, she is awesome girl with super side kick
Thank you!! I will look it up!!
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Kevin Lee: Teach me the side kick.
Wonderboy: Watch this back kick.
kung fu practitioner here. I love side kicks. They remain my favorite kick. They do require more training than other kicks, but they're my bread and butter for any sort of competition sparring.
I agree!!
How can you box without a jab? Bread and butter. Front leg side kick. Train your timing and try to put people on their butts. I once saw a 135lb Black belt DROP a 225lb Black belt with a front leg side kick. Timing. Just like what wonderboy did to Masvidal. It's a wonderful feeling to pull off in tournament 🙂
the importance of range in striking cannot be overstated imo.
Merry Christmas! Think you guys are doing great, loving these collaborations. Good content!
Thanks! Merry Christmas to you too!
the penetration is dependent on where you put the supporting foot as you move into the kick. the bigger you are the less important this is.
Jesse in there for 10 seconds lol
Thank you!
Well in karate you got 2 variations of the side kick: one is snap side kick and the other is thrusting side kick. The first guy showed more thrusting, jesse i believe showed both and wonder boy actually showed a back kick. All good depends on distance, where you want to hit and if you want to hit to break the bone or just push.
All good points. Another factor is in the order of side snap, side thrust and almost back kick these are increasing order of commitment. More commitment usually translates into more power, but also requiring increased time to recover from it and throw another technique or block your opponent's attack.
Wonder boys was not a back kick. It was a TKD style sidekick. Full chamber. Watch Joe Rogan sidekick footage. Same Same. Seth does it too but he has a big body so it looks different. They are both putting the full hip into the kick, as if you had "turned back". But a true Turn back (TKD style) comes with stepping. Either the front foot steps over and turns 180 or you step through into step turn back. Either way you load up your hips in what Karate stylists like you might call a back kick or donkey kick. Knife blade foot is in the TKD curriculum but not at all emphasized in modern training halls. Also, many tkd throw teep style sidekick which is faster. Push kick doesn't score on modern TKD electronic scoring so the snappy teep is the best for scoring but the worst for displacing the opponents body mass. (I'm Jidokwan TKD since 1980 4th dan since 06)
@@verlyncraig well im a kyokushin black belt. Thank you for the comment we learn every time.
Wonderboy's version is what used to be called a "back kick"
At 8:18...Wonderboy is channeling Bill Superfoot Wallace.
"Flexibility is an asset in any endeavor!"
Check out bill superfoot Wallace he is the front kick master. Everyone has heard of him but his style and approach to the side kick is really original.
I love the way Seth throws it. Like he’s trying to kick through you with his whole body weight behind it. That being said, I’ve never tried Wonderboys. That one looks good too. And Jesse is a master obviously.
I didn’t know Michael McIntyre knew material arts…
Last tutorial from guy in blue appears to be teaching us a fk'ed up back kick
I thought thus was about Side Kicks not side kicks.
If u want to Teep someone watch Muay Thai side Teep front Teep and Teep to the face
Retired tkd 4 dan. we own the side kick, been around 45 years so there's that.
Im not seeing a few things that make the sidekick truly devastating, both psychologically and physically.
1) both you and sensei seth have poor flexibility. its easy to jam someone who cannot use his leg as well as qa boxer uses his arm, that means the lower back, hips, it bands and hams need to be incredibly flexible. you both look like you are so tight you are going to fall over from the weight of your foot being out
2) kinetic linking: the foot arrives with the outstep and the hips rock inwards towards the target, they do not turn over the plane. they rock inward to the target. to break bones, think of a whip cracking. its not a bulldozer of a stomp with the bottom of your foot.
3) turning over the plane. again both of you are so lacking in flexibility that you essentially fall over, turning your kick into a back kick, a bad back kick.
stop it. by doing so you are halving the power of the sidekick. it feels more to you because you are doing more, but one gets greater power through EFFICIENCY than from adding or speeding up a gross motor movement involving compound joints.
Fix these things then we can talk about the kind of dexterity you need once you have mastered the basics of the kick.
Keep training guys. its not too late to learn to do it right
PS: Jesse was the best of the 3 easily but he doesnt demonstrate how the side kick works but his form was the best. Stephen has his definitions backwards. hes a fantastic fighter but he is demonstrating a back kick, not a side kick
Wonderboy has said in other places that his side kick is like a back kick, he’s aware of the similarities. Also I think it’s worth considering that taekwondo being specialised in kicking does not mean it has the only correct method of doing certain kicks.
Wonderboy's kick is the best one.
First adept said reverskick so off like pretty crazy at known how ought to when
Third nearly same knowledge we are out so
Man, if you're trying to learn a good sidekick, its hard to do better than Wonderboy (the most effective sidekick in MMA history) and Enkamp (the most technically exquisite form out there) for teachers.
True true! That’s why I go to them to make my side kick better!!
@@KevinLeeVlog Wing Chun only throws the sidekick downward like a stomp?
Side kicks= tkd itf
Thanks!
As above so below. To me in wing chun. Kicking forward with hips in line would be the same in reverse. Look up Joe Rogans kick.
Getting jammed, as explained in a more vague way in the video, is physics. Get the centre of mass between the base of support and the target, the further back the base of support is, the more energy it will take to move the COM up and over the support given the angle of the support leg. Secondly the inertia of the COM can generate more stability and power; driving your body downward will effectively wedge the planted foot and the contact point on the opponent apart, while also counteracting reactive forces that want to push the body up over the support leg. This is one thing that shorter fighters benefit from, they can land kicks that wedge taller opponents up out of their stance.
Thanks for sharing!!
Good holy God😳 Seth is a BUSY FRIGGIN DUDE!!🤯 WHERE DO YOU GET THE ENERGY!?!?😵💫😵
❤❤, much love to the side kick, the fundamentals of it allow great versatility!
There are different ranges of side kick too. Kevin will want to close the distance anyway, so he might be interested to look into one of the side kicks (charn gerk) used in the Buck Sing lineage of Choi Li Fut. In one of the variants I learned, rather than throwing from side on, you close the distance, throw something with your hands as a distraction, raise your knee up like you are going to throw a front kick, and then turn as you throw the kick out. In effect it's a bit more like a highish stomp with the blade of the foot that is aimed at the legs or the hip region.
This video was really useful to me!
When it comes to kickboxing i use to feel everybody talks the same and nothing surprises me.
But in this video I find interesting approachments of side kick.
This a good Christmas gift for 😅haha thank you.
Merry Christmas and happy new year.
I think we can do more better kick by using hip push and twisting the ankle of grounded foot
But your efforts to exploring martial arts is more impressive 🙏💐
Good point... the side kick has always been a challenge for me... it feels like I can never train it enough to be well done. I even mixed it with capoeira twisted movement, to give it more strength... it gave same effect, as the last theory in this video, to do it from the back, to get better muscles involved...
I'm surprised you didn't mention the pisao. Master Sauer made great use of the low side kick against Mr Utah.
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keeping your hips between your feet to push off of the floor is important for most (really all) grounded kicks. it's got lots of names, but we called it 'buttressing'
I love wonderboy, he might be my cousin actually, but his side kick isn’t a side kick, it’s a back kick, very obviously and even more obviously when he teaches it to you the way he did.
Love sidekicks, was pleased to see Wonderboy use his non kicking leg have the heel to the target! Would be curious to know which chamber is best, i.e the sideways chamber or the front chamber as if it's a front kick but then pivoting the kicking and non kicking legs to do a sidekick, use those hips!
Love the side kick. Great Info!!
Happy new year □■ this is legit !
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Great video! Great compilation. Also, very nice tower in the background, Kevin you sly PC gamer you!
Thank you! Someone noticed 🤣🤣
merry christmas!
Loved this video 🎉
Thanks for your great content. Merry Christmas from germany.
Thank you! Merry Christmas to you too!
The Greatest Side Kicker Of All Time is Da GOAT, Bruce Lee.
Great video! I also love that bulldogs hoodie!
Thank you!! GO DAWGS! Lol
Appreciate your humbleness and will to learn
Thank you! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Very insightful! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Which of all was the correct side kick? I couldn't understand
all of them, thats the point buddy
@@theoteddy9665 for thousands of years a side kick is a block defending attacking kick from the ankle until the throat if you put all together you didn't see that
Seth does it very good. Jesse does Shotokan so he has a regular side kick and the snapping one. Thompson is doing a back kick, not really a side kick, though it is a very good alternative as it comes from a different angle. I think the two best ways to use the side kick is with the front leg and a slide forward on the rear leg or with the front leg with a replacement step back leg for front leg and kick. Sometimes this is proceeded with a very short dropping step of the front leg.
Aren't back kicks just side kicks from the back
Also why aren't roundhouse kicks called side kicks if they come from the side
@@koraegi You could go through half the English language and ask similar questions lol
@@Docinaplane8:00 it doesn't look like a back kick.
@@brucele2776 At 6:58 he shows what I call a back kick chamber. At 8:00 as you say, it's a side kick.
@@Docinaplane on 8:00 is the actual application of the technique. Do not just focus on chamber on 6:58 and conclude that the actual technique is a back kick but you may want to listen to his explanation 6:40 so can understand the reason why he is doing that chamber and if you watch carefully on the moment of impact of the kicking foot, the position of the leg and torso and conclude weather it is a back kick or a legit side kick. Remember that Thomson is a blackbelt and a professional karate and mma fighter so he must use advance, modified, or even a hybrid technique that suited for him in order to win fights. You chamber is a basic and basic sometimes do not win fights and what win fights is the advance. If he want to call it a side kick because he develope that technique from his experience as an advance fighter. By your comment, you are implying that he is wrong and you are the one who know better. I did tang so do, karate and jkd and as I knew the back kick is executed by turning the back around 180° and use the rear foot to kick the target and not the front foot. Also try your technique the front foot chamber back kick if you can find it here in youtube. Just type back kick or ushiro geri and watch all the video but sorry cause you will never find even one of your technique the front leg low chamber back kick.
❤Mr. Wonderboy's kick is very similar to the JKD side kick and yes indeed it is very aggressive and very easy to use in any bad situation..❤ Sifu kevin,
I can't forget the fight when my car was robbed by 3 people.. I was able to fight easily by using this kick, and I was able to escape from my car.. The police was able to catch the criminals the very next day.. There I got to know who they were.. What I also can't believe is that two of the criminals are former military personnel.. They were special forces soldiers.. I'm practicing and learning Wing Chun under grand master Samuel Kwak.. and also practicing and learning Muay thai, JKD & kali..🙏❤
Wonderboy's side kick is basically a back kick, which has enough power in it (if your base foot is planted properly) to stop a charging opponent and push them away. Add speed to that kick and you have enough impact to catch someone midair as they try a superman punch and knock them 4-8ft backward. Precision and speed are the parts of that kick to practice, since the power will always be there due to so much of your body getting naturally involved in power generation.
Kevin, you aren't flexible enough in the inner thigh to throw a proper side kick atm. Every time you tense up to put power in your side kick, your base foot slides forward out of position because you can't get enough of a split. That's why you keep pushing yourself backward. Work on flexibility and practice your side kick by focusing on keeping your back foot planted - don't hop or let it slide forward even a little bit. Instead, "fall forward" at the hip while keeping your base foot planted and then catch your balance with your kicking foot.
Thanks for the tip! But flexibility isn’t an issue for me. I grew up doing wushu as a kid. I can pretty much still do a split. 😅 It’s likely muscle memory from other systems that I trained.
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I am sorry but all three are terrible form and no power. I proper side kick can devastate and should cause great damage. The first one was the worst of them all
Such a troll. Wonderboy's sidekick has no power yet there's live fight footage of it knocking down top level professional fighters?