A Program for Improving Martial Arts Kicks!

When I first started a study of Karate and the martial arts I would go to class twice a week, and do ten kicks per kick, per side. And I wondered why other students always had faster, stronger kicks. It wasn’t long before I realized  the other students were showing up early, or staying late, and doing LOTS of kicks. I would see them kicking the bag before and after class.

Okay. More kicks. And I thought about it. How many kicks did I need to do before my kicks were respectable?

I thought about walking. A person can walk all day. He can walk fifty miles a day (President Kennedy’s Fitness program) and then walk some more. So why couldn’t I kick the equivalent of fifty miles of steps a day?

Figure, figure, figure…that’s 2,500 steps a mile times 50 miles = over 125,000 steps.

All right, that was a little much. But I began doing different amounts of kicks and judging the results. I finally settled on 250 kicks per kick per side. I could do that and still have daylight left, and wasn’t beat to total feces.

250 kicks times 2 times front kick, side kick, wheel kick, crescent kick (four kicks). If I was kicking a kick every second that was 2,000 seconds, or a little over five minutes.

Within a couple of weeks, that’s all it took, my kicks were making people sit up and take notice…or fall down.

Once my kicks were strong enough to command respect I began exploring motion. A hop forward and kick, a hop back and kick, two kicks, and so on. I did these kicks on the kicking bag, in the air, and on people whenever I could find a willing partner. It took more time, but I totally opened up my kicking range.

Now, the tricky kicks. I have never been fond of the Chuck Norris spin kick, and especially the jump spin kick, and other kicks similar to those. But I have always known that if a person doesn’t know a technique, then he won’t be able to make a solid response when somebody uses that technique against them. Simply, if somebody attacks you with something you don’t understand, or don’t like, then you won’t understand it, and he will get through.

So I played with the jumping, spinning, fancy kicks. I focused on the bread and butter kicks, but I became aware of what it took to make those fancy kicks work.

If you think about it, what I have done here is laid out a program.

Spend a month on increasing the number of kicks you do, and do them every day. Not just twice a week.

Spend another month figuring out how to do those kicks in motion and in combination.

Then play with the fancy kicks.

Guaranteed, three months and you will be the top kick in your school!

About the author: Al Case has all sorts of martial arts programs available at his website. All of his programs are easy, logical, and backed up by 60 years experience in the martial arts. Books or videos, or video/books, the Martial Arts at Monster Martial Arts is the most technologically advanced martial arts in history.