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What is the difference between these 2 kicks? When would you use one over the other?
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A wheel kick could be a roundhouse kick in reverse, like a reverse spinning roundhouse. Then again, it could be a different name for the same kick, kind of like a cresent/moon kick. Maybe some one from a "kicking" system would know. I asked my Tang Soo Do buddy (who is a 1st degree BB) but he doesn't know.loun said:What is the difference between these 2 kicks? When would you use one over the other?
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loun said:What is the difference between these 2 kicks? When would you use one over the other?
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Brian Jones said:Back many years ago when I was taking TKD, a wheel kick was done like a hook kick,only the knee stayed straight, no "hooking motion". As a kickon its own it wasn't done much, but you would often se it as a "spinning wheel" kick where the leg stayed stiff, as opposed to a spinning hook kick. I may be wrong but I think the wheel is also prevelant in hapkido.
All in all I agree with the previous posters, if you post your school's definitions of the wheel and roudnhouse, perhaps someone can answer your question.
Brian Jones
jfarnsworth said:Personally I have never heard of a wheel kick. I do like KenpoDave's post on the difference of the 2. However I personally teach the roundhouse much the same as he had indicated the wheel kick. :idunno: Sounds to me like pretty much the same thing.
dubljay said:The way I learned Wheel and roundhouse are they are two different kicks.
I wish there was a way for me to illustrate the body positions to make myself as clear as possible.
-Josh-
I am just glad you could understand what I said, by the time I finished writing and editing that post I couldn't make sense of what I had written.KenpoDave said:Josh, your illustration is exactly the way I was taught the kicks.
You do realize this is a Kenpo/Kempo forum, not a TKD forum so of course you're going to have your own terminolgy for your art. Tracy Kenpo has differences to EPAK, terminolgy and technique names and actions are the big ones, but the kicks are very similar,so the original question was asked in the right place. I never read or post on the TKD board because I have no vested interest in it whatsoever, same goes with the rest of the arts.TigerWoman said:I find terminology across arts pretty mixed up. In TKD, a wheel kick is commonly known as a spin heel to head level but the leg is brought up straight and around and not hooked-snapped to target. Like a hook with no hook but with a spin in other words.
Then the roundhouse kick is completely different. We snap round kicks so there is no slow bringing up straight and around, if that's what you call a wheel kick. We bring the knee up, point in the direction of the kick and extend the lower leg for the snap. The snap round kick is non-telegraphing and faster IMO. TW
Dark Kenpo Lord said:You do realize this is a Kenpo/Kempo forum, not a TKD forum so of course you're going to have your own terminolgy for your art. Tracy Kenpo has differences to EPAK, terminolgy and technique names and actions are the big ones, but the kicks are very similar,so the original question was asked in the right place. I never read or post on the TKD board because I have no vested interest in it whatsoever, same goes with the rest of the arts.
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