Pivoting & Hip Alignment for Kicking
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- This is part two of Grant's Kicking Fundamentals series. Here, he explains the importance of pivoting the hip in martial arts to devliver a more powerful blow. Many people mistakenly assume that flexibility is the key limiting factor in their roundhouse or sidekick kicking height - when in fact it often comes down to a lack of pivoting. Turning that supporting foot not only allows for a much higher and faster kick, but also helps to genrate more speed and power for a trluy devastating blow.
Consider these videos like pieces of a puzzle. Once you can incorporate all these lessons into your martial arts kicks, you should see drastic improvements.
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got my hip properly aligned to click super fast on this video
Excellent kicking tutorial.
Thanks man
Good breakdown of mechanics.
Thank you, Grant!
Dude not lie how u explaine things is unreal and 1 day in and I've learnt so much I'm a black belt kickboxing and 3 years amature boxing and 2 years jkd and you knowledge is next level thank u buddy
Thanks for an awesome video!
Kicks look so simple, but they are so bloody hard! TKD kicks are a work of art! I've got loads of work to do. Great video!
Amazing advice!
Very good explain technique
Thankyou for the advice, pivot is important
I love these videos keep up the good work bro!
Appreciate your thorough breakdown of the pivot. It's my bug bear for sure. Thank you.
I was looking for this video finally !!!
Great video Grant! The bio-mechanical breakdown of each movement was done with good clarity and simplicity. Very well done! It's these types of videos that enhances one's abilities without being overwhelming or vague. I think it is a great idea to only cover a couple of these points at a time, as you have here. Later, the playlist collection of these will be a great, beginner's master class. Enjoy the rest of your evening.
Thank you man, you're absolutely right. When I've taught people, I've always tried not to overwhelm them with information initially because it does more harm than good.
Thank you brother.
Great food for thought
Excellent channel
Amazing vid !👍
Awesome video, dude!
Nice vid Grant keep it up man
Thank you brother
you are the man !!
You're underrated. Great content.
Very nice sir love you
Another great video on kicking. True story: when I was doing karate, we were never taught this. Just an explanation of here's a side kick, here's a front kick etc. So I saw this girl was struggling by trying a side kick without the plant foot pivoting and I showed her the pivot. Just that small step and she was kicking correctly. It's these little small details that teachers don't really think about, but will help noobs much better than stretching or advanced kicking techniques.
I've experienced that so many times, it's usually because instructors don't know about it and if they do and don't mention it then they're a poor instructor.
I've learned to teach myself over countless retries of kicks on the heavy bag now my sidekick is like overpowered everytime I kick the bag it bends in half just because I practice it over and over and over again. Practice makes perfect
@@grantstevensma your school was a shitty mcdojo. all teachers that know what the hell they are doing puts huge emphasis on the pivot and planted foot more than anything.
Great tutorial, man. Can you guys make a video on footwork?
I love it. How do you pivot for spinning hook kick?
You guys saw a lot of key points,the guy was a great kicker too! I "grab" the floor as much as I can with the foot I stand on when I execute my kicks,not many people do it that way for their own reasons,but I find it helps me deliver some more power in my standing kicks and stability as well.
Lucas Voltaire I’m interested to know more about that. Have you got any video of you doing it?
I have studied various traditional martial arts styles and modern self defence styles over the years and never had any formal instruction on kicking techniques but have wanted to learn, could you share any drills that might help me develop kicks for height, balance, speed and power cheers. By the way great video sir!
Hey grant, great video! One thing that I've been curious about was, the arm swing when kicking I've seen you kick with swinging your arm against the direction of the kick and I've seen you swing it with the kick... Which way is the right way? I was told to swing in the direction of the kick to involve more body mass therby generating more force, but I feel like it's harder to balance....
Great question man and you kind of answered it with what you said. I do it that way when I know i'm going to be retracting back a high kick back off the target again (for example if I was going to then transition to something else to stay light on my feet) so you're right it helps me with balance. It's kind of a similar principle to a Cheetah using it's tail to counter balance itself at speed.
But if I were to kick all the way through a target, like at 4.38 in this video, I won't do it as much or it will go against the momentum I'm trying to create. So it depends on what your application is, but I would definitely say if you don't do it when doing a jab style kick then you will be hurting your balance. That's also one of the reasons I'm able to stand up so quickly after as well.
Guys, you have to pay attention to the volume of the music compared to that of your voice. The bioneer him self had this problem a couple of times. Otherwise, great video. looking forward to see more. keep up
His form in his kicks are pretty impressive.
Great vid! My traditional karate teacher (Shito-Ryu) never taught this. Had to learn it later. Seems so silly now.
Yeah man it's a shame that so many instructors don't know this
Respect
Nice
The kicks are a work of art; the background music is epic! Name of tune, please! Anyone?
Your such a beast man.
link for part one?
The problem I find with using the pivot with lower kicks is I can't replace the kicking foot on the floor back in fighting stance fast enough. With high kicks, I do my best to full pivot, of course.
The higher your kicks go the more they are like jab's, In my style of Karate the higher the grades the less kicks they would do, to attempt fancy kicks was just dangerous to your well being, The most kicks we did were kicks to the lower leg (as a feint to get in close) and low front kicks and those would be done without any pivot so you drove through with power.
Most competitions were won by good combinations of hand strikes.
I disagree man, if what you're referring to by fancy kicks is things like seen in tricking then I absolutely agree with you. But if you just mean kicking high then there's a hell of a lot of evidence to the contrary of that. Check out Edson Barboza or Holly Holm as famous examples.
Kicking at height works, but only if you're incredible at it.
Of course this guy is very flexible, for the average joe less is more.
Great advice on the pivot but you still need a very high degree of flexibility to kick the way you do , maybe a video on stretching from you .
I've already got one man, check out the playlist on the channel
I’ll do that but I still think you have to be naturally flexible to be able to kick like yourself .
Talent is a myth it's just hard work! Don't short change yourself man! you can achieve anything you work hard at and believe in!!
Yes you’re right hard work pays dividends no argument there but there are always people that are naturally more flexible than others and you are obviously one of those , I’ve done Kyokushin from the age of 12 and although I’m happy with my kicks I still can’t kick like yourself no matter how much stretching .
Just curious why are some of your videos in abandoned things/places?
It’s not a problem it’s actually cool, I’m just wondering.
If you check back to the first If you check back to the first part of the series I explained why there. Then for this part I just wanted it to be consistent with the other parts. I think it makes things a little more interesting this way, rather than seeing me just on a white background. Glad you like it though
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The things thought here are the same things they teach us in our ITF Teakwon do studio
And how about people who could execute mortal kicks in "middle split" pivot (90 degree in pivot foot) like bruce lee? He could pivot just 90 dregrees instead of 180 and execute perfect kicks and theire are Muai tay roubdhouse kick that the pivot is 90 degres too
Pivoting & Hip Alignment for Kicking... (Only for TKD)
In what style does pivoting and hip alignment not matter? If you mean boxing...then yes you are correct
@@ninja51n punches also require proper pivoting of the hip.
Yeah.... my question was not about punching, it was what martial art does not require correct pivoting and hip alignment? If Eugene means Muay Thai he is mistaken. Thai kicks require just as much pivoting and alignment. It’s just science, you’re using your hips like a fulcrum in order to generate proper power. Sooooooo unless your coach is training you wrong, then yes, you need correct pivoting and alignment in Muay Thai. Boxing absolutely requires correct pivoting and alignment for proper “punching technique” however does not use kicks, thus my original statement
Is Grant ever coming back?
I'm back!
Fifth view!
It looks like you're running a martial arts class or something where abouts is it
That was a seminar I ran in the UK
My God you look cute
Thanks for showing your dislike of America's greatest President, and your Millenial belief that you gain credibility by filming in avant-gard locations with homeless attire. Your demo on the heavy bag only show two different types of kicks, not a right or wrong kick. Many martial styles including Olympic Taekwondo make use of the angled round kick.
Maybe not the best business decision to inject politics into something completely unrelated. Great tutorial. Hoping it will produce enough clicks to allow you the luxury of buying new pants and moving out of that abandoned building.
Bruce Lee wannabee