How To Round Kick To The Body Without Self Inflicting Foot Damage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2021
- Have you ever tried to sneak a round kick under your opponent’s guard? You target their stomach and end up putting your foot into an elbow. It hurts a lot so today I explain how I avoid this scenario and how to safely attack the body with round kicks.
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Kicking someone is elbow is just like when you hit your toe on the corner of the door it hurts like mad
The worst is the fleshy part in the front of the ankle , the transition spot between the top of the foot and the tibia.
It disables your leg and hurts like hell for MONTHS
Even with shin pads it hurts.
Fractured my foot and dislocated my big toe cause my kick landed on a elbow
I break a toe.........
I hit to an Elbow and my s toes... died
Sorry my english is shit
Hurt my toes many times trying to land inside leg kicks. Sometimes opponent try to check or move and your toes clip their knee. ouch...
Bro this is gold, the amount of times I’ve clipped the elbow makes me want to ditch mid kicks altogether
having someone short block your low kick isn't any better.
"this is gold" was the exact phrase in my head!
I never kicked hard mid level or low kick without setting it up with punches and tried not to be predictable. It's a nightmare to kick yourself out of the fight... Also tried to hit with the chin and not the foot if I went hard.
I broke my foot off of someone's elbow. He was fine and I was out for 4 weeks. I was wearing pads too. Sometimes freak accidents happen. Took a long time for me to build up the courage to throw that kick again.
I hit my trainers elbow quite hard but I got lucky, my foot was okay and his elbow was pretty sore. Probably didn’t hit the olecranon
On a similar not:
I broke my foot in a forward kick (involunteerly) against a knee, while using the front part of my foot. Lesson learned: use the heel for anything below the chest.
@@maggnet4829 Same thing just happened to me 2 weeks ago bro
I don't think doing front kicks with the heel is the answer tho. I think we need to get better and setting them up and finding the right spot to front kick
@@TheOriginalPain18 Certainly a strategy to consider.
Just broke my foot the same way last week. Super bumped
lmao rachel's long blink at the end when he cut her off because the video was running long.
You're one of My favorite fighters, keep on teaching us, bro!
I am rookie kickboxer and i really needed this video😅thanks!
Thank you for answering my question and taking note of our comments! Much appreciated!
Such an underated channel! Always gold content. I hope the channel blows up soon!
U don't know how much I needed this . thank u coach
This is seriously the best Channel on TH-cam with the best community
Great info. You gave me a couple points I had never considered.
Excellent advice, been wondering about that myself. Thank you!
Just got done sparring, and I always struggled to land body kicks without taking damage because I spar without head kicks, but I’m super excited for this video thanks so much brother
This ones gold. Thanks Coach.
you are the teacher we all want, minor details are so important !!!
U second that, AMAZING teaching skills
Thanks for the golden tips you keep giving!
This is a great video and well needed topic. Appreciated.
Thanks so much for making the video, this has been my personal hell whenever O train Muay Thai
Read my mind. I needed this.
Good tips ! It was quite a while back, but even with relatively light contact I hurt my coaches foot by dropping the elbow defensively like that. He was demonstrating a combo that ended with a body kick, and I instinctively dropped the elbow and bang he hit it with his foot. He didn't really blame me, and he didn't kick it that hard, but he was still nursing a sore foot for a while.
This is a game changer for me, thank you!
So good brother! Been getting baloon foot for a few weeks now in sparrin this has yielded so much light on the darkness 😂
This guy is as good as it gets for TH-cam training advice! I was taught from day 1 to impact with my shin, not my foot, but my background is Muay Thai not kickboxing
Yes but also in muay thay we contact not only with shind but shin and foot also. Sometimes you can kick with only shin but you need to be extremely close. When we kick pads we dont kick only with shin and but some part of foot also hits the pads
Outstanding videos keep them coming!
Can you talk more about sparring against way bigger people and still getting better
I second that it’s very difficult!
@@TheDangerZone123 yeah I’m 5”7 125ibs
@@Supahfilm I’m 5,11 165 but we got big dudes in our gym that are over 6’2 and 40 pounds more 😂
Yes, i think this 5'something guy has a lot to say about this topic
@@lobohez7222 Why wouldn't he? It is the short guys who deal with height often
Yup, my big toes are useless stiff painful lumps after years of elbow checks; Running up steep hills is a challenge with my limited ROM in my left ankle. Great vid.
Ive hurt myself so many times, even breaking two toes doing a round kick
Oh god this gives me flashbacks of how much pain my foot was in when when my kick landed flush on the elbow. Thanks for the tip.
Had a guy step back and drop the elbow, caught my second toe!! Took a long time to heal and throw round kicks to the body in training. Thanks for the advice on aiming higher!
Always great information
thank you ! very useful video
Thanks Gabriel!
Awesome video, this will help me throw more kicks while sparring. Foot to elbow impact sucks so bad lol.
Excellent advice
Thank you coach.
Great video champ, any news on what promotion you're going to sign with?
*Thank you, I can't believe no body told me that before*
Thx for the tips.
Came here after foot hitting elbow
I kicked an elbow and a shin during the same sparing. My whole right leg still hurt bad one week later. Thanks for the video I needed that 😅
Good tip👊
This is amazing
Great video 👍,only problem is where was you ten years ago lol,I had to learn all these by pain !!!,that foot on the elbow hurts and sucks,although also don’t workout with beginners,as they pull away from your kicks and you end up hurting them with shin to the elbow,but still worst one is having kick checked,
I'm a fan!
They are lovely gloves!
This is a great video !! Sometimes when I kick my foot lands on the bag hard shit hurt lol after a while I’m new to fighting ...so landing with your foot isn’t wrong ? They tel me to land with my shin
That kick to the elbow already happened to me and it hurts a lot.
Thanks for the vid.
I got one question: During the kick to the shoulder, how to avoid hurt the big toe if the kick misses?
A key step to preventing injury is also proper rotation of your hips and kicking slightly downward at an angle so that you are not kicking your opponent in an upward trajectory because then you can suffer some serious pain on your foot If you hit that elbow. And as far as conditioning of the shin what happens is the more you kick something like a Muay Thai heavy bag it creates micro fractures in the bone and as they heal that section of bone becomes denser and the frequent impact in that area also numbs the nerve endings minimizing the sensation of pain
I got a big bubble on my foot from sparring...thx for the advice😘👌
Great tips as always. Now... What to do when the opponent times you every time and whatever you land doesn't seem to have an effect? How to adjust mid fight, or even mid round? I find this to be one of the most frustrating experiences for young fighters. It would be amazing if you talked about this.
Broken rhythm. Feints, fakes and changing angles. Switch between leading, simultaneous counters and delayed ones. Then reset.
Jaques Slack's "Ringcraft: The Three Initiatives" th-cam.com/video/eO11bqOrbTY/w-d-xo.html
QUESTION: have you dealt with shin splits or small fractures from kickboxing? Going through it myself after connecting my shin to an elbow
For a pro this is probably nothing new. But for me as a newcomer it gives me the understanding why I have pain in my feet sometimes after sparring. And more importantly; how to make nice high kicks.
Can you please make a video about cutting angles next.
Roll your hips and pivot. So you kick through your targets ribs.
If you don’t you will kick up and ultimately kick more elbows
Awesome , I light spar with my sons , I like to aim for the gloves , 👍 hitting elbows hurts
So just to give a basic explanation of the difference between increasing bone-density and muscle strength:
Muscles grow through Davis' Law which I think most people are aware of: stress on the muscles creates micro-tears which stimulates the body to grow more cells to rebuild the tears and be better ready for the stress next time.
Bones increase in density through Wolff's Law, which is that cells around the bone and some in the bone sense that they are under load and send messages to the brain, which sends back messages to build stronger cells in the bones (as like all cells in the body they are regularly dying and being replaced).
According to a biologist friend of mine tears or fractures in a bone would actually make the bone weaker as it can't increase the number of cells in the bones only their health/quality = ability to withstand stress. So micro-fractures will just knit back together and keep the damage rather than put new cells in which will potentially make it bigger. This is why once your skeleton is fully grown there's no way to increase it's cells and become taller.
If anyone knows it better and can explain it to me please reply, I'm aware my own understanding of biology is far from perfect. Thanks!
The best way is also to make the kick properly. I mean like actually pivot and put the hip into it properly, and the kick will almost come in perfectly from the side every time. Doing it properly actually makes is hard to get the elbow directly unless they are trying to flare it out to hit your foot. If you kind of soccer kick it directly up then this becomes a major risk factor.
Underrated comment!
Aim for the bicep? That's brilliant! Thanks for sharing this tip.
Also, you can condition your forearms the same way you condition your shins. A makiwara bag on a table (or similar) works great, so you can drive your forearms into it like you're doing hammer fists. It's a lot easier than trying to do the same thing on a heavy bag. Or, you could take up skateboarding and get used to hitting the cement, as well as your board hitting your shins, several times a session, lol.
The forearms will certainly get conditioned over the years.
I find simply sparring and doing drills with a partner has conditioned them well without the need for additional conditioning.
With a partner do 10 body kick arm blocks on each side
That is incredibly helpful. My main issue with kicking elbows is when using teeps. I've broken toes a couple of times.
How the hell do you manage to hit elbows with teeps ??,karate front kicks are way better jab them right in the low belly,they take a lot out of you,teeps are better for aggressive fighter that won’t go away,
@@jamesmiles1328 mostly it happens when I'm fighting karate guys with a side stance. I put a snap to my teeps like a front snap kick and they jump back about a foot and drop that elbow on the foot.
@@joshuahall1656 well there’s your problem then,sport karate side stance front kick doesn’t really work,as lot them very good footwork and timing anyway,and have hands down low,front kicks easiest to block party to the side knock them off balance,plus there used to blocking side kicks all the time,
Try placing the foot on them and pushing rather than a snap kick in this scenario if they are good at avoiding it, although at the same time I would be slamming roundhouse kicks into their thigh rather than going for a front kick and if you do, go for a head front kick and step in preparing for them stepping back
As someone who’s starting to compete but goes to school/works during the day, I’m having a hard time figuring out how to make the best of the extra time that I do have. I feel like there’s just so much to work on with feints, footwork, counters, bag work, strength and conditioning, injury prevention, etc. how would you structure/focus a training routine for someone who has about 1-2 hours in the morning to train outside of the regular evening mma/kickboxing classes?
I never thought about kicking biceps, thanks!
You’ve never heard of Muay Thai then !!!,
@@jamesmiles1328 I definitely have, I practice it. In fact I bet I can Muy Thai kick you harder than you can kick me!!!
@@RamboRichardson lol you can’t even spell Muay Thai let alone do it !!!,im a actual kickboxer who’s trained in boxing Muay Thai sport karate judo bjj jeet kune do for years,so keep dreaming boy,
I wish I would have known this before I fractured my foot. Would have been useful knowledge to have.
I went to a new Muay Thai gym in August last year, and the first spar I kicked someone’s elbow with the top of my foot! It hurt so much for so long and I still get shooting pains across the top, even after 10 months!! It wasn’t even a hard kick, it just must have been the exact spot that was enough to cause long term damage!!
Ouch. That sounds like it's something that could be fixed with some therapy.
Or I really like using things like self massage to increase blood flow around injuries or maybe red light therapy.
I hope you are all healed soon.
For those of you enjoying these videos I recommend virtual training with Gabriel! My training partner and I found it extremely valuable. Thank you for the amazing content Gabriel!
How wat do u mean virtual training
@@chisomodimmegwa3479 He coaches over zoom and watches videos I send him.
@@thomasfahey8314 wooahh is it a privilege or those he send links from twitter or something. Also do u mean u send him videos of urself for critique?
@@chisomodimmegwa3479 it's a service you pay for, I just sent him an email inquiring. Was the obvious choice for me because of my schedule , I can't take classes at a gym.
@@thomasfahey8314 oh right thanks for the info
I've been told with shin-conditionin, because our bones are porous, we try to break up the bone structure between the pores. When the bone has healed it then becomes a solid mass instead of the porous-y structure bones usually are. Made sense to me.
Our bones have a 'spongy' core if that's what you mean. But it serves an important function by supplying osteocytes with blood and nutrients etc. When you harden your bones osteoblasts deposit more calcium into the intracellular matrix of the compact bone on the outside, making it thicker. I think using the terminology 'breaking structures' or 'creating micro fractures' is too aggressive to describe what is reslly happening. It is a process of very slow bone remodeling. A completely broken bone will actually NOT grow back any stronger, in fact it might actually be weaker.
The way you initiate this remodeling is NOT by rubbing things on your shins btw. It is with force application, weight lifting (compressive forced) kicking things (bending forces) and so on. All that rubbing your shin with rolling pins etc will do is desensitize the nerves of your skin and underlying tissue, but wont do much to your bone. I dont claim to be an expert or anything though
What are some tips for fighting someone with more fights/more experience???
Literally yesterday I missed the pads and the top of my foot went right into the elbow, its absolutely killer
Wow I'm here early
How about when teeping, getting an elbow to your foot or toes. I've had that happen to me several times to my toes.
What about making the kick come in at more of a side angle rather than an upward angle? Meaning even if she dropped her elbow your leg would hit the outer part of her arm not the elbow tip.
So guess the kick would be slower as a result?
I try to counter jabs with a roundhouse sometimes so the elbow is not in the way. Other than that I rather try hit the arms than going for the spot between elbow and body. Good tip on distance finding though
I feel like a lot of it's down to how you condition yourself as well. I use a lot of TKDish roundhouse kicks, and train on the heavy bag with those kicks, so people dropping the elbows like that doesn't really bother me that much.
@@jeegunugger1871 No need to be mean. The foot is weaker than the elbow, but it sounds reasonable that a conditioned instep won't get hurt as easily. Daniel isn't dumb even if you disagree with him.
I dont know if you really can condition your foot to be harder than elbow. Especcially if elbow of partner is also conditioned
Hey bud do you ever commit into a horizontal round kick to the body not a diagonal? If I wanna hit the body and not worry about the elbow I just turn my hips in more so my leg and shin comes straight horizontal. Often times they will drop the elbow but it doesn’t matter I hit the side of the elbow in the muscle below the bicep and jame they’re arm into they’re body.
Hey Gabriel. I have a question for you. How do you avoid knee blocks every time you're throwing a low kick? I have seen your video about low kicks and I'm still wondering on how should a locate be thrown so that in case of knee block you endure the least amount of damage?
Try to throw some hands before the low kick.
I also like to do what Liam Harrison does, throw a very weak low kick to get the opponent to check, then as they put the leg back down they are vulnerable to the low kick
Setting up your kicks properly can greatly help
In Bones it's caused by Wolff's law - which is similar to but not the same as the way muscles adapt.
This is quoted directly from Wikipedia:
"Wolff's law, developed by the German anatomist and surgeon Julius Wolff (1836-1902) in the 19th century, states that bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed.[1] If loading on a particular bone increases, the bone will remodel itself over time to become stronger to resist that sort of loading.[2][3] The internal architecture of the trabeculae undergoes adaptive changes, followed by secondary changes to the external cortical portion of the bone,[4] perhaps becoming thicker as a result. The inverse is true as well: if the loading on a bone decreases, the bone will become less dense and weaker due to the lack of the stimulus required for continued remodeling.[5]"
As always your wife seems really cool & nice!
I think everybody enjoys seeing you two together in videos even though she's not a particularly high-level fighter because you two just seem like such a great couple and radiate chemistry & charisma!
Rachel you let the champ wear those shorts on youtube ? 😱 you really are his greatest opponent. Rachel gets you and you don't even know it 😂 look at Rachel, she looks like a ninja. And the champ looks like he's going down to the beach, and let's just say it ain't fight Island. 😂 Lets gooooooooooo 😊👊
So much awesome content. 👍🏻
It seems that it is all about setting traps, distance management, technique, and an Iron-Will each and every fight!!
Setting Traps on the other combatant can and quite often does result in the difference between the winner and the loser. Punch to the body in order to open up the head, and vice versa.
I'm seeing similarities between the low, body, and head/high kixx!! When they get used to you hitting their body or their legs with your shins, then change it up to the head kicc for the finish!!
Battle of the precise strategists!! 💯
Thanksss
This hurts me ore than checks so thx
I train taekwondo and I have shattered the top of my foot on an elbow tried to walk it off until jumping lunges the next day don't recommend it thank you for this.
another question? when you kick do you usually have your foot pointed out or do you have it proped up on impact?
My foot was like a bellewwn
Return subtitles please .Its better for my English practice :) Im from Ukraine . Aweasome chanal .Thank you Gabriel :)
I'm new to striking and sometimes when I'm sparing and things are going well for me/ my partner is challenged, and I get this moment of "oh shoot! I'm sparing with this person that can annihilate me" and my performance dips dramatically. Any way to get over that? Or is it just something to slowly get used to?
Fun fact for bones: wolf's law! Check it out. Basically it means you can condition your bones via weightlifting.
Did you post this video for me personally?😂😂
A LONG TIME A GO THERE WAS THIS GUY THEY NAMED "THE ANIMAL" AROUND MY GYM, VERY STRONG AND SKILLED BUT HE WENT NEEDLESSLY HARD WHEN WE SPARRED, I STARTED TO CHECK HIS KICKS WITH ELBOWS HE TROWED A TANTRUM AND WENT TO GET HIS SHIN PADS. I RATHER CHECK KICKS WITH ELBOWS THAN MY FOREARM'S BONE.
It happens to me sometimes during sparring, must apply the advice or i will end broken my foots 🤣🤣
Great advice!! The worst foot swelling I ever sustained was as a karate teacher for beginners. I was teaching a downward block for a front kick,. and I was the target. Instead of doing the block as taught, he blocked with a 12-6 elbow directly into the top of my foot. There are times when you just don't show pain (I think you know what I mean), but as Conor has said, later, "my foot was a balloon" lol.
I wish I saw this video years sooner lol. I have shortish legs so I have been kicking with my foot a lot to try keep range. I'm pretty sure my foot bones are deformed now
I literally broke my foot with a round kick this week on an elbow...
Wish u a speedy recovery fr
Your account name might have something to do with that 😂
@@NobleVagabond2552 thank you. I was back in the gym in about 5 or 6 weeks.
I kicked an elbow like 8 months ago and the top of my foot still has a numb spot.
my first kicking heavy bag full power and vein on top of my toe got bigger, will ice do a job or doctor is required
How do you suggest to avoid someone catching body kicks all the time in sparring?
I kicked someone's elbow really hard with padding on my foot and my foot swelled up really bad. It hurt to walk for about 2 weeks
kicked so much elbows with the top of my foot in a hard sparring like about a year ago that it took about 2 weeks to heal, my foot over that 2 weeks was so bruised and sore that it looked like a golf ball. It didnt hurt while fighting, but the time when the adrenaline rush ended, my foot was pale as fuked.
yeah it's microfractures that result in increased bone density adaptations over time. Called wolff's law.
Hey friend. Just to let you know I used to think Wolff's law worked by micro-fractures too but after asking a friend whose a biologist to help me understand it apparently it actually works just simply from the stress stimulating better-quality cells to grow out in the marrow (because like the rest of the body cells are slowly dying and being replaced all the time).
Apparently if they fractured in the way muscles cells get micro-tears this would weaken instead of strengthen the bone as muscles replace the tears with new cells but bones can't increase their cell count (which is why once your skeleton is fully grown it can't get taller). They can only replace don't cells with stronger, healthier cells that the body tells it to make because of the demands on it.
Also Wolff's law apparently states that just from not using a bone or putting any demands on it the bones cell quality will reduce and it will become weaker.
Do you do pts in any gym?