Skip to main content

​
Technique

  1. Stand up and bring your guard up (elbows bent and close to your body, hands in front of your face).
  2. Stagger your legs to have your working leg at the back.
  3. With your hips and shoulders rotating, swing your front leg upward and across your body in a circular motion.
  4. The foot your are standing on should naturally rotate to help open the hips and give power to your kick.
  5. Come back to the starting position, either by reversing the motion, or by completing the rotation, and repeat for as many repetitions as desired, then switch to the other side.

​
Form tips

  • Imagine a target in front of you, that you would have to hit with your shin.
  • Point your toes to avoid smashing them (in case you hit a real target).
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.

​
Equipment

Ground (standing)
Ground (standing)

​
Appears in

Other disciplines
e0y9

Front leg swing

Novice
e0ye

Side kick

Novice
e0yd

Outside kick

Novice
e0yc

Inside kick

Novice
e0ya

Side leg swing

Novice
Want to log this exercise? Open it in Calistree. Text and images are used under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; the video plays from the original source.