Defense or Countering a Spinning Hook Kick

ralphmcpherson

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Minute 2:55 in the video below is a great example of a stationary or defensive cut kick. He cut off the attackers spinning hook or maybe it was a simple back kick. Either way he cut it off with a perfectly place cut kick to the back hip as the person turned.
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Thanks heaps for that ATC, that illustrates it well for someone who had no idea what the term meant.
 

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Minute 2:55 in the video below is a great example of a stationary or defensive cut kick. He cut off the attackers spinning hook or maybe it was a simple back kick. Either way he cut it off with a perfectly place cut kick to the back hip as the person turned.
Gotta love that defensive side kick. When you stick it into the middle of someone's carefully planned out attack, it just ruins their whole day. :lol:
 

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Thanks for the video ATC, the kick before the one you mention is actually an example of what we'd consider a jumping cut kick. If you look at the screengrab below it shows his body is facing forwards and his knee is mostly over rather than fully over as a side kick would be.

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It's kind of like the lovechild of a lazy (in technical accuracy rather than speed) side kick and a traditional (knee to chest) push kick.

In the one you mention the hips go fully over but that's because he's trying to put a lot in to it to take his opponent off balance (we normally use a cut kick either as a feint or as a setup to something else).
More of a jumping front push kick to get someone out of the ring. It is loosely called a cut kick.
 

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In the one you mention the hips go fully over but that's because he's trying to put a lot in to it to take his opponent off balance (we normally use a cut kick either as a feint or as a setup to something else).
The cut kick is a great kick to setup all kinds of things. You guys sound like you are using it correctly.
 

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The cut kick is a great kick to setup all kinds of things. You guys sound like you are using it correctly.

Thanks man. At our school we're quite a way behind the curve both in terms of Modern Training Methods and Kukkiwon standards. We've improved incredibly in terms of the latter over the past few years (a focus I've been trying to push) along with visits from Grandmaster Pan Sim Woon that has helped us tremendously. Still got a way to go on MTM though...
 

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Step in, grab the knee and dump him on the ground then kick him in the ribs :ultracool

Oh, you mean flailing like a busted windmill...
 

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Minute 2:55 in the video below is a great example of a stationary or defensive cut kick. He cut off the attackers spinning hook or maybe it was a simple back kick. Either way he cut it off with a perfectly place cut kick to the back hip as the person turned.
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Thanks ATC. In Kenya, we used to call that specific cut kick a "stopper." and that's what I still call it.
 

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