The Kick that Works Every Time!
[I:http://mymartialartsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/AlCase22.jpg]Nobody else knows about this, but it is the best kick I know. This is an amazing kick, but it’s true,and I never see anybody else use it. Not in tournaments, not in the MMA, not even in good, old commercial school freestyle.
This kick is fast, as fast as thought, and if I am not careful, and don’t pull it and merely plant it gently, it is a real rib breaker. This kick is powerful, it is probably the most powerful kick in all the martial arts. And, every time I use it, I get it.
The replacement spin side kick is what I call this kick–but I simply refer to it as the Pop Kick. When I use it I turn my back to my opponent, I can’t even see him. Yet, the kick shakes his ribcage every single time.
To master this kick, you have to be able to fight out of a horse stance. There is a weakness in fighting out of a horse stance. Obviously, your opponent has your side closed, and your position is not very good.
So I make my position very temporary when I fight out of a horse stance. I usually let myself be manhandled into the seemingly bad position, and thus is the opponent lulled. When I deliver this kick, then, the surprise of my opponent is even greater.
You’ve got to learn how to switch feet effectively to make this kick work. To practice switching I drop into a horse stance and learn how topop the energy from my tan tien, I envision snapping the fingers in my mind–very important–the actual fact of switching the legs must be just like the snapping of fingers.
Now, take a stance before a wall, breath easily, relax, and practice, when switching the feet, making the foot coming around the back to plant upon the wall. One foot lands on the floor, and the other foot lands on the wall, and they must do so at the same time. The key here is to visualize the kick, see it in your mind, relax, and just let it pop, a simple popping thought.
Do you see the magic here? It works because I am practicing kicking at the speed of thought, and the kick becomes virtually instantaneous, like the movement of a magicians fingers when he pulls that ace out of the deck. I start from one stance, the other fellow thinking that he’s got me because he’s shutting my body to the side, and wacko cracko, I pop a side kick from the wrong side. The instant coordination, the sudden drop of the weight, the pure strength of the side kick, the unexpectedness of it all, they all combine to make a mofo kick that can’t be stopped.
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