Tips to Defend Head Kicks in TKD Sparring 

I'm from Libya and I love your channel so much. You helped me a lot in Taekwondo, thank you very much

This is kind of an old video but it was so helpful, thank you!! I kept wondering why i always fell for double kicks to the head, and today after taking 4 too many decided to google it haha ill be trying this out next time!

Thank you alex for this tutorial in are country philippines they throw head kicks too much and it hurts Right timing! Tommorow i have a sparring match :)

Amazing topics and wonderful videos

Thanks Alex for these tips

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Thanks ,you are awesome

Great video need that practice!

I always do a boxing guard and use my elbow so that to do a little damage while bloking

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excellent video maam. This will help my students a lot :)

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please show how to defend a front kick to the bladder area or a frontal side kick to the same area.

Nice alex

Awesome

How many hours in a day are you training?

Why in taekwondo sparring and Championships fighters dont have a high guard and dont do hard blocks against kicks?

Alex good morning. You are a great influencer and i like your videos. However at mark 0.09 you said you need to get used to get hit in the head. Please do not advise that to you or your followers you can't condition your brain for trauma.....

Nice tutorial yo

Would highly recommend to use the *opposite* arm/hand to block a head shot - not lifting the arm on the same side. That just opens up that side to be hit :(

Nice video

Doesn’t Itf focus more on punching as opposed to kicking?

Why dont you use hands for block head kicks?

You have a really good left leg please tell me how?

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How to defansh on hand and strong

Nice Head Gear......Where?

Mine stretching is not compleye

Nice video !! Alex

in combination not the time to come !! , I fight with 3 dan belts

I don't even have a partner how am i supposed to learn how to defend myself from a head kick:(

It's very impressive to be able to kick at head height but it's not a good idea on anyone that has any kind of training I've been doing jujutsu since my early teens and in every sparring match that someone's tried to kick me that high it's ended with them in a pin. My teacher never used to hold back on me, kicking like that needs you to be standing in a certain way and to be balancing on a point which is the worst thing you can do in a fight. High kicks are to finish an opponent, in every martial arts system I've seen and sparred with they're followups to catch you off guard just like a thrust with a sword, meant to end the fight but telegraphed and risking your centre of balance. Only one person's every kicked me in the head, my uncle who's an olympic 4th dan black belt in karate

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Nice stuff... TKD is my preferred art... I'd love to see you do a full speed roundhouse to the head at 5000fps with the mouthguard and saliva splashing out 😜

Getting hit in the head during a tournament is the worst thing that can happen.

Lady, How about blocking a circular kick to your face with your hand? Please don't tell me they'll brake my hand. That's the way we block circular kicks to the face, in combat, kumite or whatever you call it.

Blocking in taekwondo is almost failed...

Never works in the street

Who in their right mond is going to let someone kick them the head for practice.

The brain 🧠 is suspended in CSF( cerebro-spinal fluid) any sudden move makes your brain to bounce back and forth in that water like fluid. A kick to the head wearing head protection can still be very damaging even lethal to the subject receiving it. Taking kick to the head is not at any point in training a good idea. Strokes, Subdural hematomas and Ischemia can have delayed symptoms up to three days from the day you receive the trauma. Please do not advice this type of trainings. You might be harming your younger audience and fans who imitate you sometimes literally.

This is a dumb strategy. Purposefully getting hit in the head? Cuncussions? Come on now!!!