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5 Tips for High Kicks

Excerpted from Ultimate Flexibility: A Complete Guide to Stretching for Martial Artists:

• Build strength with flexibility, both through kicking drills and resistance and flexibility training. One of the primary reasons high kicks are so challenging is the sheer weight of your leg. To propel the full weight of your leg into a vertical side kick relies as much on the strength of the muscles as on their range of motion.
• Bungee cord training (a bungee cord wrapped around your ankle and secured to the floor) builds flexibility in motion. Like running in sand or up hills, this type of training will build the large muscles of the leg in a very specific way. During bungee cord training, 75% of your regular kicking height is a good goal.
• Quick focused kicking movements are better suited to high kicks than large or slow movements. Chamber your leg quickly and compactly.
• The knee of your standing leg should be slightly flexed, both to allow you to kick higher and to prevent knee injuries.
• The maximum force of a high kick is exerted just prior to impact. Whip the target rather than smashing through it. Kicking too hard will disrupt your balance and cause you to lose control of your kick after impact. Withdraw the kick immediately after impact, focusing on a light follow-through after the full dissipation of energy into the target.

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