Kicks and the hips

[Doc]

I have some questions:

1.-Does a high back kick have the same negative effects?

2.-I have noticed most chinese systems don't have roundhouse kicks but cyclone/fan type kicks (stiff legs going diagonally upward, inwardly or outwardly).Are these kicks safe?

3.-working the core will minimize the negative effects?

Yours,

Jagdish

Anatomically, a high back kick has limited benefit. The higher you go, the harder it is to make contact with the proper kicking surface of the foot, the heel. When you canno longer kick with the heel without turning your foot outward, than you have reached your anatomical limitation.

 

[MJS]

Negative. Damage to the hip flexors. Don't do them.

Doc,

What stretches do you suggest so as to avoid injury to the hip flexors?

Mike

 

[Doc]

Doc,

What stretches do you suggest so as to avoid injury to the hip flexors?

Mike

The bilateral "splits." Unless you start a stretching rountine very young into adulthood, the hip flexors are very vulnerable to damage. All stretching should mimic walking type movements. Mild stretching to the hip flexors is ok, but don't overdo it.

 

[MJS]

The bilateral "splits." Unless you start a stretching rountine very young into adulthood, the hip flexors are very vulnerable to damage. All stretching should mimic walking type movements. Mild stretching to the hip flexors is ok, but don't overdo it.

Thanks Doc!:asian: