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Post by MMX on Mar 8, 2011 13:42:08 GMT -5
What is your favorite or fun Basic Technique and then your least favorite or for me Difficult.
My Favorite is probably Mawashi Geri. It was very hard to get decent(notice I did not say good...) and I like trying to make it better each time.
The one I hate is Kansetsu Geri. I think because we do it last in the warmups and my legs are toast they just don't want to work as well as they should for this technique.
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Post by ironcastknight on Mar 8, 2011 14:14:15 GMT -5
Au contraire, my favorite technique is kansetsu geri, because my legs only need to go down for it.
The one I hate, now more than ever, is the Enshin style mawashi geri, because it is the most convoluted, counterintuitive method of throwing a mawashi geri I have ever seen outside of a Tae Kwon Do school. Also it makes my knees hurt.
The one I have yet to figure out how, exactly, the hell it's supposed to work is the chin strike which we have to turn our shoulders into like it's a straight, even to the point of holding our hands in the position near our shoulders where a straight comes from, but while ripping it in and back out like it's a jab. I'm mainly confused because it's like frying our eggs and bacon in the same basket before they're hatched.
Then again, a lot of things we do in kihon are like that. Very frustrating.
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Post by fatjoe on Mar 8, 2011 14:14:37 GMT -5
Favorite - HIJI!! and MAE GERI!!
Least favorite - Ushiro Mawashi Geri! I am not young, limber or stable anymore!! Last time i was effective at this was 4 years ago! 2 broken feet, 1 broken ankle and serious ligament destruction and stability and fluidity is gone!!
Osu!
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Post by MMX on Mar 8, 2011 14:25:14 GMT -5
Au contraire, my favorite technique is kansetsu geri, because my legs only need to go down for it. The one I hate, now more than ever, is the Enshin style mawashi geri, because it is the most convoluted, counterintuitive method of throwing a mawashi geri I have ever seen outside of a Tae Kwon Do school. Also it makes my knees hurt. The one I have yet to figure out how, exactly, the hell it's supposed to work is the chin strike which we have to turn our shoulders into like it's a straight, even to the point of holding our hands in the position near our shoulders where a straight comes from, but while ripping it in and back out like it's a jab. I'm mainly confused because it's like frying our eggs and bacon in the same basket before they're hatched. Then again, a lot of things we do in kihon are like that. Very frustrating. LOL! I think you are overthinking the Enshin Mawashi Geri.
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Post by ironcastknight on Mar 8, 2011 14:32:42 GMT -5
If by "overthinking" you mean "Asking myself how I'm supposed to do this twisting, four step nightmare with any kind of power or speed without exploding one or both of my knees" then yes, yes I am.
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Post by MMX on Mar 8, 2011 14:34:52 GMT -5
Let's go over it next time I see ya at the dojo.
Osu!
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Post by walshy on Mar 8, 2011 15:55:11 GMT -5
Favourite at the moment ushiro geri, it's just really starting to work in sparring after loads of work! Don't know if i'd have the confidence to try it in a tourney yet though. Least favourite...any jodan kick( just can't get up there properly) and koken uke, stupid block!
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Post by senshido on Mar 8, 2011 16:20:02 GMT -5
Favourite at the moment ushiro geri, it's just really starting to work in sparring after loads of work! Don't know if i'd have the confidence to try it in a tourney yet though. Least favourite...any jodan kick( just can't get up there properly) and koken uke, stupid block! I'll copy you into a ushiro geri video I have on face book to show you how I work it into a combo does this work? www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=174118275960089
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Post by walshy on Mar 8, 2011 16:32:05 GMT -5
Yeah it worked thanks for that. Been experimenting with a few combos. Quite like leading in with an inside thigh then ushiro, that seems to be working well. Osu
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Post by powerof0ne on Mar 8, 2011 17:11:15 GMT -5
I don't really have a "least favorite" but probably the one I use the least is kansetsu geri for obvious reasons.
My favorite is gedan mawashi geri because it's very practical and can be done in most different types of clothing. Osu!
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Post by medguy on Mar 8, 2011 21:34:33 GMT -5
My favorite is uchimomo geri (inside thigh kick) at the moment. I can use it for damage or to upset their balance.
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Post by medguy on Mar 8, 2011 21:39:16 GMT -5
My least favorite is any of the spinning kicks, cuz I'm short. But the techniques I absolutely HATE are any or the backfist techniques. I think they are a waste of time. I took them out of my kihon sequence.
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Post by ironcastknight on Mar 8, 2011 22:33:46 GMT -5
Man, I used to use the uchimomo geri a lot, but then I stopped because I kept punting people in the groin. Not intentionally, but more because I'd kick, and then they'd bounce or drop or I'd misaim slightly(this was before I started wearing contacts to spar, so I was aiming my kicks at the vaguely lower blurry part of a huge white blur), then BAM, I'm apologizing and they're getting the backslap of testicular rearrangement.
Gedan mawashi geri is my favorite mawashi geri, mainly because of the deep joy I derive from trying to kick people's legs off.
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Post by pandorasvise on Mar 9, 2011 8:21:10 GMT -5
I dislike Uraken-Sayo-Uchi. it just seems silly to me. I really like yoko-geri. I think that is my best kick, most powerful anyway.
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Post by powerof0ne on Mar 9, 2011 10:20:23 GMT -5
My least favorite is any of the spinning kicks, cuz I'm short. But the techniques I absolutely HATE are any or the backfist techniques. I think they are a waste of time. I took them out of my kihon sequence. For knockdown rules I can understand not liking a "back fist" but for anything allowing head punches I enjoy doing an occasional spinning back fist or double spinning back fist. It's easy to work into a simple jab, cross combination to make into a 3-4 punch combo. However, it's one of those things I pull out to surprise an opponent. Osu!
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