 How to kick harder. I'm gonna show you how to kick harder than you never have before with the least amount of effort. I'm gonna show you some exercises and training tips and techniques and different body mechanics that you must use in order to kick harder. So pay attention because it's very important for all the kicks that you do. If you train improperly, you're going to hurt yourself so make sure you pay very close attention. So I'm gonna show you two kicking techniques that are very useful and very safe to use and very effective too. The first one is just a straight rear leg thrust. Watch it. And then the second one is the side kick. So very safe to use because you're just using the sole of your foot and usually if you wear shoes so you don't have to worry about hurting your foot. The one that a lot of people ask of all is how to do the roundhouse kick. So this is fun. Okay, which is pretty good if you train a lot but I don't really like using a lot because you risk injuring your shin. Unless you condition your shins a lot, if you train a lot in no time and you do it consistently and you keep your shins conditioned, then yeah, use it. But it's dangerous if you don't because if he puts out his shin now, right? Like this and he blocks it and then he's more conditioned than you and you basically just busted your shin and then it hurts like hell. So I don't like using it that much, okay? And plus, you have to be in a closer distance to do that and do a side kick, side kick. You can do it with longer distance as well as this one, you do it in the longer distance. You gotta be a little bit closer to do this and then if you're close to this close, I can punch instead. So that's why I like to punch instead of kicking this distance, okay? So what are the body mechanics? What are some drills and exercises that can do to strengthen your legs and improve your technique to kick even harder than you kick now? So let's stay tuned and I'll show you how. Here's secret number one in kicking harder. First secret is to use your hips and you use your hips to thrust forward when you do the kicking motion, okay? So if I do slowly, notice that my back is all arched, okay? It's like a C, it's cut. And then when I kick, look at it. Look at my body, it's straightened out and I'm leaning back, okay? So I start with this position with me in a compressed, it's called compression. And then when I kick, this is called explosion, okay? Or expansion, okay? So if you look at my back, it's hunched over, it's round, so I actually curl in my shoulders, 10 words too, to make this compression here. And then my back is all round, making a turtle shot with my back, okay? And then in position, I'm expanding, okay? My hips are thrust out and then my back is fairly straight. My head goes back also, okay? So to train that, just that motion itself, body mechanics, you can go like this, like this. Okay, as far as you can, expand like this. And then curl up as much as you can, okay? Curl up, knees down, bend slightly, and then expand. Look out. Okay, that's exaggeration, that's not what you do in the actual fight, this is just an exercise, okay? And you don't do it in the fight, you do it before, okay? So you're training this at home to get used to the expansion and contraction. Okay, just train this at home. Do that, expand, stretch, stretch, contract, contract. And feel your lower back opening, the vertebrae here and the lower back opening up. Okay, many people make a mistake and they have their lower back closed. And this thing now like this, so your spine is like an S, that's not what you want. You make sure your spine is a C, like this, okay? Okay, so I'll show you how that actually works. So I am contracted, compressed, and then I am expanded, okay? So that's the bottom mechanic, okay? I'm just doing this exaggerating so that you can see, right? Okay, okay. So that's one bottom mechanic. The same mechanic happens for the side kick, except it's a little bit difficult because I'm contracting and expanding sideways. Contracting, expanding sideways, like that. Wow, okay, so you see the contraction, okay? So here, the contraction that it is, expansion is this way. Okay, you have to do it on one leg, that's the difficult part. Okay, so the next level exercise is this one. You're gonna have a target this way. Your feet are pointing, let's say, about not directly 90 degrees this way, but a little bit less, okay? So you contract, and then expand, contract, expand. The way you can do that is just practice it from this position, doing that, contracting, expanding. Contracting, expanding. So other points on the contraction and expansion, some people just say to lean back, but that's not the point, it's to lean back because if you lean back, then part of your energy is going backwards and part of your energy is going forward so you're not splitting it. So what it is, is actually expansion, okay? Instead of thinking lean back, take expansion, okay? So here, I'm thinking expansion. If I'm thinking just lean back, then that happens, and I go backwards, right? All right, side kick, I'm thinking about leaning back. If I'm thinking leaning back, I go that way. If I'm thinking about expansion, then I stay still and lean back, okay? So this is a different concept, okay? Expansion or expansion, right? So that's the difference between leaning back and expansion. So that's the first tip for a secret in kicking harder. Stay tuned for the secret number two. The second secret of kicking harder is to use momentum. Use the momentum of your body weight, okay? So right now, I'm just standing here and then I am doing the kick. But then, if you want to add momentum, all you have to do is just take a step and then use that forward motion to do the kick, okay? So I'm going to use my forward momentum. That's a good one. Use the one momentum. So all that means is to take a step and then don't stop there, okay? So you take a step, stop there. Already a lot of momentum. So I have to take a step and then kick going and then do the kick, okay? That's the straight kick. If you go sideways, basically step behind like that, okay? Step behind and kick. Step behind and kick, okay? One way to do it is actually jump into it, hop into it. So as you want to do it, hop. So now I'm using more momentum because there's this, my hips are switching from this way to this way. So slowly, I just do step, like this, step, like this. If you do it fast, actually hop into it, like that. So, and if you have more space, you can get more momentum. So you'll hop, take a step, hop, and kick. So step, hop, step, hop, kick, okay? No, I don't want to do it, go step. You good? Okay, so that's how you use momentum in your kick. The third secret of kicking harder is to use all your joints. What do I mean by that? What joints do you have in your body? Well, starting from your feet, you have your ankle joint, ankle joint, then you have the knee joint, right? Right, hip joint. Then you have your spine, the spine, then you have your shoulder joints, then you have your neck joint, right? You also have your elbows and wrists, and you have your head, neck joint, right? So how do you use them all together? Well, for example, here, I can use my ankle joint to push this way, my next stand. So it's like pushing with my ankle joint there too. Now I have my knee joint, my knee joint goes out, but if I combine that with the ankle joint, then see my ankle goes out and the knee goes out too, so now I've got two joints working, and then use my hip joint, is this one, okay? See, the hip is getting smaller, and the hip is getting bigger, that's another joint, right? Then the other joint I'm using is my spine, my spine is curved, and now my spine is straight. Spine is curved, spine is straight, and then the shoulder joint, my shoulders are in, and my shoulders are out, shoulders are in, shoulders are out, so actually this is the chest joint too, it's just becomes closing, the chest is opening, so that's the amount of joint in my neck. Don't think about it with the neck, because it hurts the neck, but what's actually happening is your neck a little bit curved and then the neck straightens out, neck curved straightened out, but don't practice, don't think about it, then you're gonna hurt your neck, okay? So you've got all these joints happening, okay? All these joints happening at the same time, okay? So, and then you're doing it at the same time, okay? Your ankle joint, knee joint, hip joint, back, shoulders, neck, all working together, all right? So, if you do it with a side kick, the same thing, okay? You have your, in this case, we're not gonna use this. The joint we're using is the heel joint, the heel, the twisting of the heel. There's the knee joint there, there's the hip opening, there's the back opening, the chest, shoulders, and then your neck, so you have all those joints working. Okay, boom. There's also an ankle joint here, I forgot. So ankle joint here is turning, turning, okay? That's the ankle joint here, you guys want to go up? Okay, turn, see this one, turn. So that's the ankle joint, twisting motion, turn, turn, watch this ankle, okay? So all those joints are working together to maximize the efficiency of your body so that you engage more of the body mechanics to deliver the impact into the target, so, okay? All right, so that's the third secret of how to develop more power in your kicks. So thanks for watching this video on how to kick harder. I reviewed on how to use all your joints, use the compression expansion. Secret number two is to use momentum. Secret number three is to use all your joints when you are doing your kicking. And then I showed you three or four exercises that you can do at home to strengthen and to increase your balance and the power of your kicks. So I hope you enjoyed this lesson. Make sure that you subscribe to this channel and click the notification bell so you get all the latest lessons from me, David Wong. And make sure you like and share and comment in this comment section. Tell me what you think about this lesson and tell me what else you'd like to learn. So we'll see you soon. 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