Taekwondo 2

Ha guys, this post will have more information about Taekwondo.

The last post of Taekwondo has introduced some of the basic kicking skills of Taekwondo. This post will introduce more different methods of the Taekwondo’s kicking. However, the techniques of this post introduce are more complicated and some of them are require people to grasp the basic kicking which introduced in last post.

Hook kick

Hook kick is a kick like round kick. However, hook kick is not kick the target by the instep, it need the leg to move like a hook and use the heel to hit the target.

Axe kick

The axe kick is another kick that use heel to attack the target. However, unlike the hook kick, the movement of axe kick is from up to the down and it usually aims the head of the target.

Spin kick

Spin kick is kick that require the user spin their hold body before they kicking. Some of the spin kick needs the user have the knowledge of other basic, such as the spinning hook kick, spinning axe kick, 360 turning kick.

Jump kicks

Jump kick is meaning the people jump and kick. Normally, it will be used when people have a height difference with their target or people want to increase the power of their kicking. Usually, people will combine the basic kicks with the jump action to be the jump kicks, such as jump snap kick, jump side kick, jump axe kick.

I am highly recommend you guys to try Taekwondo. Due to it is not only a fighting skill and it can also help you guys to have a health body.


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(Written by Ricky Law)

Taekwondo

Ha guys, today topic is Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a well-known Korean martial art. The feature of Taekwondo’s skill is focusing on their kicking techniques. In recent years, there are two major style of Taekwondo. The first style is ITF, which have a longest history style; and the second style is WTF, which is more modern and using in Olympics.

Taekwondo have many different kicking methods and here will introduce some basic method. This post will introduce Front snap kick, Side kick, Round kick and Back kick.

 Front snap kick

The front snap kick is the basic skill that people learn in Taekwondo. The special of it is kicking in a linear way and it is very fast. Although it seems very usually, it can be very powerful after a long 
practice.

Side kick

Like the snap kick, side kick is another way to hit the target in the front. But side kick have one more action is to rotates body and make the kick can have a longer hit range.

Round kick

Unlike the snap kick, round kick is the user turn their hips and kicks the target from the side.

Back kick

This kick is the user turn back their body and pushes the back leg straight toward to the target. This kick is also power in the fight; due to the turning movement provide a power for it.

In next post, we will have more type of Taekwondo kicks .

More informations about Taekwondo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taekwondo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Taekwondo_techniques

http://yoosma.com/the-basic-types-of-taekwondo-kicks/

(Written by Ricky law)