How To Do A Kickboxing Roundhouse Kick Video

The roundhouse kick is a kickboxing staple maneuver. Learn the skills of kickboxing in this video on competitive kickboxing moves.

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Start from fighting position
Keep front foot ready to pivot
Back leg comes out at 45 degree angle
Go all the way through the target

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Jason Warren is a Martial Arts Instructor at Chi Martial Arts in Miami Shores, Florida. He grew up in 1970's in New York City's tough South Bronx. Jason learned to fight at an early age. New York had many fine Martial Arts Instructors. Jason met most of them and started in traditional Karate about 31 years ago. His first style was called Shotokan. He then met William Oliver and switched to Kyokushinkai. Jason eventually studied with Shigeru Oyama, and cherishes his relationship with his Instructor to this very day. Jason has competed in Martial Arts all over the world.

JASON WARREN: Hi! My name is Jason Warren. I'm a kickboxing instructor here in Miami Shores at Chi Martial Arts. In this clip we're going to discuss the kickboxing roundhouse kick. The roundhouse kick usually is targeting the legs, the floating ribs or the temporal lobe. From my fighting position, I want to lift up my leg at 45 degrees. It's a very, very difficult kick for beginners. The most important thing is I want to pivot this right foot otherwise I'm going to torque my knee. So I lift up my leg and makes an arc around and into the target so I'm chopping down. You can see it carries a lot of force and inertia. And I want to target the same spot. It's a very, very powerful--one of the most powerful kicks in kickboxing is the roundhouse kick. And you have what they call the anterior tibialis or the shin bone cut into the leg, the floating ribs or the temple and it usually causes the opponents to fall down or get knocked out. One of the more important things to remember and I'll keep going back to this is to keep your hands up. Oftentimes folks drop their hands and the face is vulnerable. Let's go over the five points to remember for our roundhouse kick. One of the most important things is the fighting position you got to have a good base. The second important thing is that front foot, it's the lever, it has to pivot otherwise you're going to torque your knee. Third, back leg comes out at 45 degree angle. Fourth, I want to go all the way to the target and land in my stance and reload my stance.

How to Do a Kickboxing Roundhouse Kick Video

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