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Stretch Yourself - 6: High Kicks with No Warm-Up: The Right Body Alignment for Side Kicks
By Thomas Kurtz
In this article you will learn the correct body alignment for the high side kick.
Stretch Yourself - 5:Right Stretches for High Kicks with No Warm-Up
By Thomas Kurtz
In this article you will learn about the method of developing dynamic flexibility so you can kick high anytime without any warm-up.
Leg Circles Part 1 ? Stretching the Hip Muscles for Higher Kicks
By Paul Zaichik
This exercise loosens up and stretches the muscles surrounding the hip joints. Practicing it regularly will promote higher, faster and more powerful kicks.
Stretch Yourself - 7: High Kicks with No Warm-Up
By Thomas Kurtz
Six critical things you need to know about body alignment to develop powerful high roundhouse kick.
Leg Circles Part 2 ? Stretching the Hip Muscles for Higher Kicks
By Paul Zaichik
This variation of leg circles help stretch the hamstring muscles which are important in all high kicks.
A Simple, But Powerful Tool Most Attackers Won?t Expect
By Christopher Caile
It?s not flashy and it is often almost awkward in execution. It is also too often just ignored in practice. But the simple rear kick should be an important tool in anyone?s self-defense inventory.
About Thomas Kurtz
By FightingArts Staff
Misconceptions, difficulty doing a side split, testing and different kinds of stretching.
Stretch Yourself - 2: Difficulties with Doing a Side Split
By Thomas Kurtz
You can get more side stretch by changing your alignment so to tilt the pelvis forward to realign the hip joint.
Stretch Yourself - 3: The Method of Testing Your Potential to Do a Front Split
By Thomas Kurtz
In this article you will learn if the joints and muscles of your thighs and hips will permit you to do a front split and/or side split.
Stretch Yourself - 4: Kinds of Flexibility and the Right Role of Splits in Taekwondo, Karate, and Kickboxing
By Thomas Kurtz
In this article you will learn about kinds of flexibility and the right role for splits in kicker's training.
Stretching As An Important Tool In Preventing Martial Arts Trauma
By Bruce Everett Miller, PA-C
The most common fault in stretching is not that we don't stretch, or even stretch the major muscles adequately, but that we fail to stretch the minor muscles.
Stretch Yourself - 1: Misconceptions on Stretching and Flexibility and the Method of Testing Your Potential to Do a Side Split
By Thomas Kurtz
How to determine if you have the potential to do a side split, even before you start your stretching program.
Leg Circles Part 3 - Using Reciprocal Inhibition To Assist Stretching
By Paul Zaichik
This exercise shows how by tensing opposing muscles you can relax the hamstrings.
Cambodian Bokator Knee Kicks
By Antonio Graceffo
Knees are your most powerful weapon. They can hit like a baseball bat.
The Old Okinawan Karate Toe Kick: Part 3- More Shorin-Ryu & Intro To Naha-te
By Christopher Caile
Toe kicks were an essential part of both early Shorin-ryu and Naha-te karate, but how they are used differ between free fighting and self-defense applications.
The Old Okinawan Karate Toe Kick: Part 2- Historical Introduction
By Christopher Caile
By taking up the toe kick, I was re-establishing a historical link to the past, to the heritage of technique and to the masters who once practiced it.
The Old Okinawan Karate Toe Kick: Part 1- Introduction & Execution
By Christopher Caile
While a lot of karate-ka are surprised to see the toe kick they don?t realize that it is part of their heritage.
The Double Lapel Grab
By Christopher Caile
As an attack it may be scary, but in reality it does little more than ruffle your jacket while you as a defender have lots of options.
Unraveling The Mysteries Of The Nafadi Tradition: Its Kata
By Joe Swift
While we don't know the original Nafadi curriculum we can make some educated guesses based upon some evidence and data, as well as the kata of this tradition.
Viewpoint: Morihei Ueshiba: The Saint Kicks Butt
By Herb Borkland
At a time that we are looking to find spiritual new warriors in esoteric new models
we only need look at films of an 80-year-old Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido, who demonstrates aikido's ideal of how power is based on technique, the perfection of form and not muscular power.
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