How To Do A Karate Front Kick Video

The front kick is a basic karate move each student must master. Learn karate moves and skills in this martial arts video.

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Front leg lifts up
Knee up & snap with ball of feet
Use back leg
Use low & high combinations

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Ricardo Bellot is a Martial Arts Instructor at Premier Martial Arts in the Midtown area of New York City. He has been training in Martial Arts for 19 years.

RICARDO BELLOT: Hi, my name is Ricardo Bellot. I am an instructor here at Premier Martial Arts here in New York City, Midtown. In this clip we are going to show you how to do a karate front kick. Now a front kick you can have several different targets when targeting an opponent. You can start low. You can go for the knees, right there in the front of the knee. You are striking with the ball of the foot when you are using this. You can go for the abdomen, you can go for the throat or you can go for the chin and above, okay? So, in executing a front kick, you can do it two different ways. You can do it from your front leg, your front leg lifts up, knee comes up, snap with the ball of the feet, back down. For a more powerful front kick you start with your back leg. I can go for his knee, boom, I can go for his abdomen, boom, or I can go for his chin or throat, boom. This is how you execute it, okay? Now there's different variations of doing it. I can do it from the side. If I end up on the side, attack his ribs, attack the side of his knee, okay? Or I can use in a rapid concession. I can use different combinations. I can start low, high and so on and so forth, okay? This is also a good setup in the opening of a match. I can throw him off course if I add any other combination. I can throw the front kick in, I can throw this in and I can throw that back in, okay. Now it is a quick, sharp, direct attack, okay? No waste in movement and straight to the point. Knee comes up, snap right back down, okay? You can switch, down, boom, boom. And that is how you do a front kick in karate.

How to Do a Karate Front Kick Video

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