@@davidmann8724 Bit defensive. You sound like someone who specifically goes to the bank to see another man's toes. I hope we never cross paths, or banks.
Thats the proper way to do the front kick. I've notice lately a lot of taekwondo schools are teaching and training the front kick with the instep instead. I re-train people into using the ball of the foot it jus makes more sense
There’s utility to both. You can teach the instep version to an absolute beginner since they won’t have the flexibility to hit with the ball of the foot yet. It gives them reps with the chamber and extension, then later as they develop they can curl the toes back.
Love this Gotta send some appreciation to my shihan for driving those principals home. It’s been 15 years since I was in a karate class, and still at 30 I’ve retained that flexibility and those weapons. Having that bag of tricks has made my journey into kick boxing & Muay Thai a really fun experience.
I was JUST thinking about how to make my toes safer. thanks for the help Shane! I got my first interclub competition end of this month so wish me luck!
Never thought this was TKD specific. This is something I carried with me from TKD days. I always exercise the balls of my feet, and you use them when kicking.
I used to make my students walk the room with heels up off the floor for snap kick and walk in the sides of their feet for sidekicks. We called that one the penguin step.
Jeez, I can't believe that this need teaching. That said, no matter how far back yo pull your toes, if they shin check your kick, or down block with their elbow onto your foot, you're still going to be in SERIOUS pain.
Protecting your small joints is so important. If you injure any of your fingers or toes throughout a fight, youll be severely limited for the rest of the fight
I'd never have thought martial artists didnt know that. I was a tkd kid. Pulling your toes back was literally day one stuff. I had no clue it was style specific. We also did round kicks to the body with the ball of the foot (depending on target and angle), but round kicks to the head with the instep.
I was told to walk tip-toe for it and it seemed to help a lot for a ball stricke in front of you.. It was still harder to do it on a heavy bag with a round kick stricking from the side.
In case of an injury, I find it easier to walk on the ball of my feet as oppose to the heel of feet. Plus you have the added benefit of the heel being more dense for more power and damage. Anyone that throws a side, hook, thrust, snap or any other variant should think as if they are trying to kick threw a door. Would you kick a door with the ball of your foot, right? Then why kick person with the ball of your foot?
Exactly where I learned it from was karate. Never could do it as well with my left, though I mostly fought Southpaw even though I'm right-handed just so my best kicking leg would be closet to the target, but I could always switch no problem threw people off. Never stubbed my toes when kicking either lol
I am the sort who does everything in slides, all the way to running 5ks in em. I naturally began doing this to hold my sandals in place while running. Now, I had to do some correction work to get back to using my toes, but I'm glad that my little accident has reincorporation into my mma
Maybe I already do this but I still fail to see how this would help if accuracy if off and u hit a knee. An elbow I could understand. Helpful tip, but I've rarely heard of people in my gym breaking toes from said kicks, including my coaches.
Do you also help people down the path to go professional? I’m a beginner with very minor training and I want to advance to get to professional fighting and I’m searching out how to do so.
Yeah, pull those toes back. Not only does it protect your toes, you can focus your snapping kick right into those floating ribs when someone overextends their punch a little.
Funny I use the teep allot, but I had 2 years of Taikwondo training before switching to Muay Thai... I wonder now if this is the reason why after 18 years MT I still use the teep so much 🤔
Yeah bruh so easy for u Shane😂 I have flat feet, had a decade worth of issues coz of them and every time I’ve seen your videos, I HAVE FOOT ARCH ENVY. Tis not as easy for me, especially when I’m tired. Keeping up with skipping is hard enough as it is I’m an ignorant philistine, I’m already trying to improve it and I wear different shoes now and it has been improving, but if you say it’s possible to develop your pointy feet then I will try
Ummmm you aren't wrong, but it's really in the chambering of the knee as far as consistently getting kicks through uninjured. I was taught to swipe the knee towards the chest and when you are ready to launch it, extend straight from the chest, pushing from the planted foot and through extended leg into the opponent (pushing through is what causes the lean back). If you swipe your foot upwards THAT, is a big no no and is what breaks toes.
An ideal front kick is when the kick hits the target, your hip, your knee and the ball of your foot are all a straight line. Well, that would be ideal but a kick still hurts, nonetheless, as long as it hits the target, ideal or not.
For free?? In this economy? But in all seriousness I strained my neck practicing kicks. It’s healing after 3 days but man I want to learn how to practice moves without injuring myself like that again. I work a desk job so I don’t move around as much as I’d like.
Lol that’s a black belt requirement? My brother got in a street fight and he push kicked the guy rushing him in the face as he was ducking to probably takedown and ground and pound or super uppercut him 😅anyways my brother fractured his toes doing that😂 so I always use balls of feet when practicing to teep as a way to avoid that happening to me
Its a white belt requirement. I learned that literally the first day. It's part of learning the front kick. If you're testing for your black belt and cant do it, you definitely shouldnt have a blackbelt. See how fast you figured it out? Imagine someone training for years and not having a clue.
Ask Bas Rutten how often he broke his toe... Fact is: in a fight you gonna hurt yourself most of the times... but hey, I guess you are not a fighter...
Uuhhmm..i do not know anyone who does a front kick or teep with their toes. That will break them for sure. So that "secret"is basic technique. And yet you can still get hurt by some moron that puts his elbow in front of his body. It happens. Usually by fighting people who don't spar much.
