3 Secrets To Faster, Higher & STRONGER Kicks

[@grantstevensma]

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[@XialoreMiaoCiao]

Your skills both in the refined techniques and in your attitude towards the art and the life path forward seeing the more we humans can apply to learn by a tradition that lets us grow and that we have to carry on and teach for future people do not lose this opportunity of balance themselves too ❤️

[@grantstevensma]

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[@0x_Vlad]

I absolutely love your style. Not afraid to call traditional "masters" as rigid and paving your own path. I'm a big fan Grant!

[@grantstevensma]

Massively appreciate that man! 💪🏼

[@thewatchingaccount-pq7sl]

Facts

[@robball5080]

Having cross trained Kickboxing, Southern Shaolin, Muay thai, Tae Kwon Do & capoeira, I've trained with a similar midset. Taking in all the variations of a kick & refining it to the most efficient point. Capoeira especially taught me strength in some very interesting positions.

[@grantstevensma]

I believe this is the way forward man, its weird how styles we're the gospel, then it went to more freestyle, but it seems the cycle is repeating again and people are going back to rigidity and dogma.

[@robball5080]

@@grantstevensmaI 100% agree. My Sifu told me a true martial artist is someone who adapts each style to them & what works for them. Being rigid holds you back. Sadly I've seen this rigidity with a few other instructors, which i didn't stay with for long. The day we go back to being open and encouraging Freestyle again, the martial arts community will prosper better.

[@XialoreMiaoCiao]

We have to! Once we start to feel our structure in the air which fills us and the whole space that our eyes trick us it is space filled with the same air that we breathe and the energy too; then it is when we have to start to refine our art, if not we are still athletes or fighters! I do not want to say that we are better but different... and I am aware that is not an aftermath but a daily work with no end to have these feelings! And dogma kills art! Stage of boxe did improve my kicks and sensitivity needed to do chi Sao in wing chun let my back and shoulders improve the timing, iajutsu and hema helps me to know the translation of my postures and timing .. martial arts made me sort of a poet, in Italian, against my willingness... so thanks for the channel fellow martial artist

[@chris8691]

10:17 he got all the good camera angles on that roundhouse kick 😆🔥 amazing vid man packed with a lot of good information you may already know but the one that really gets me that causes the technique to drag is definitely that pivoting ! But working on it all about the baby steps !

[@grantstevensma]

Haha yes definitely from but your technique has come along SO far already from where you were before so keep going!! 💯

[@ignaciorosforte7579]

Greetings from Madrid (Spain), it's a pleasure to find videos like this with tips to improve technique and power of kicks, with easy combinations of movements including explanation about it. It's so important don't forget legs in current rutine of daily working out. Many thanks for the video and keep kicking. Cheers everyone !

[@grantstevensma]

Appreciate the support bro

[@jimmorrison4291]

That spinning hook kick is a work of art

[@yakshadalaster305]

Really been focusing more on kicking lately after i got my punching flow again...been following the kicking tips u shared before and yet something was always missing... This "arc of kick" is the what I'm tackling next. Also tnx for the telegram channel man...couldn't be more easier for your tips and knowledge to be found..you are doing a lot for us man.

[@grantstevensma]

Thank you very much brother! I'm glad you're enjoying the TG as well 🔥

[@pmartialartsx]

Great job explaining and definitely very beautiful kicks!

[@HumanAki]

This feels like an absolute masterclass! 3 tips that can apply to damn near every kick the human body can do! Grant...you're the man! 🍻

[@grantstevensma]

Thanks very much bro glad you enjoyed the video

[@RichardWilkinson-g9z]

Great content again Grant. I will have to work on hoping my support foot into position first rather than rotating through that motion. I see that a benefit of this would be less friction. Easy in bare feet in a dojo. More difficult in trainers on pavement. With your method, the surface wouldn't matter.

[@grantstevensma]

100% man, that's why I like it and why I usually just wear shoes to train as well and it makes no difference

[@trombonemunroe]

Excellent advice as always. Thanks, Grant!

[@WarriorEsoteric]

Very good Grant , incredible technique

[@Benedictstcross]

The amount of insights in this videos is staggering 🤯 great work 👏🏼

[@ahmediftikhar3728]

Gr8 technique grant!!! In-depth detail on dynamic isolated sort of kicking

[@grantstevensma]

Thanks brother

[@Yupppi]

The electrical circuit analogues are good for someone who hasn't done any circuit calculations or fiddled with them, but your electrical engineer audience will be grinding teeth :D That unrelated thing aside, very interesting! Your philosophy sounds similar to judo. Least effort, most effect in my free expression of it. Splitting the technique into pieces. Furthermore developing basic tool set further, that can be adapted to other techniques because they share parts when you split them up.

[@grantstevensma]

Haha yes, I mean it was never gonna bea perfect analogy but gets the point across.

[@florencerockymaetala7538]

Thanks for the advice mate I'm definitely trying this kicking technique out and this might help me Improve my kicks to greater levels. Thanks Again Stay healthy GOD BLESS Peace out!!!! ✌️✌️

[@grantstevensma]

Awesome, work hard!

[@DewanMMA]

your kicks are really good

[@grantstevensma]

Thank you bro

[@darlenedunn5693]

Wow ... nice description and breakdown .. very thorough You always give me something to practice 😊😊

[@grantstevensma]

Thank you!

[@hinakhodiyara7883]

Pure gold. Thanks for sharing.

[@gglendinningok]

very helpful, just when such had been on my mind, thanking U

[@parmaq4032]

Clean, superb content as always

[@grantstevensma]

💪

[@kylek29]

Very good breakdown. Although, as a completely random side observation, this shirt design made me think initially that you were wearing it inside out.

[@Lakes85]

Another really helpful video. Not sure why but this guy reminds me of British actor Warren Brown.

[@VOIDSTRANGER2099]

*creates own magic* 🪄

[@Maartun]

This is awesome! Please teach me more!

[@defenderbear]

Quality content. You have excellent form.

[@thothgold2768]

Gotta see you on the bag and sparring

[@fabian13333]

What kind of shoes are you wearing? Great video and I love 80-20 principle you are well read

[@grantstevensma]

Thanks bro, the shoes are Boxing boots actually, not made for kicking but I wear them for all training. They're Adidas Speedex Ultra

[@emptyingthecup]

Great video. The foot leaving the floor to maximize rotational speed is interesting. It looks like there is some slight risk that, that if contact is made between the kicking foot and the target while the pivot foot is in the air, could that not lead to falling off balance?

[@grantstevensma]

Thanks for the comment man. I did mention in the video that it’s imperative to reestablish contact with the ground before the final extension and impact. But also, I in-fact find this less risky than pivoting continuously as this method aligns me in perfect balance to unleash the kick at final extension, because it’s almost an instantaneous movement. Compared to the continuous pivot in which you’re never really balanced throughout. Aside to that, this is something that takes work and is a relatively advanced way of doing it so yes falling off balance is a risk, but only if you’re not very, very good at kicking already. It’s a little like in boxing where you first learn the textbook technique, but beyond a certain level of skill, sticking rigidly to rules actually becomes detrimental to progression. 1. Learn the method 2. Perfect the method 3. Discard the method

[@timothycheok7324]

Hey grant, i'm a university student but would like to be more athletic. I don't know if you suffer from muscle knots or tight/hard, painful bands of muscle along the muscle bellies. If you have had them, could you make a video on how to get rid of these muscle knots ? Thank you !

[@grantstevensma]

Hey man I haven't experienced this personally.

[@loneshark123]

Would you do a video on how to hold a kick out at head height?? I can head kick no problem but to hold my foot there and do it slowly seems impossible! Thanks!!!

[@grantstevensma]

I don’t really train this stuff tbh man. I just work at getting my kicks fast and precise, so they’re applicable. But if you wanna do this I recommend doing slow kicking drills aiming to get higher progressively, as well as working on the associated muscles like the obliques so that you’re able to hold yourself upright and not fall off balance.

[@rinzoix861]

Excellent vidio bro👏👏

[@universiannomad3951]

Do you compete? Your content is legit 👍

[@Kungfufighter-w3e]

he def spars

[@megatafiq1568]

how to pivot fast bro? can you make a video

[@jm7578]

I love repetition. It is not boring. All I hope is that my repetition will give me gains.

[@tomcourteney-hoare1421]

I'm 47 and used to be an avid martial artist.But I've lost my flexibility.Any and I've on getting my flexibility back

[@grantstevensma]

Like riding a bike if you’ve had it once, it never really leaves you. Your body just gets a kind of amnesia so you have to remind it. I’d recommend starting slowly and building up. Stretching should be uncomfortable but NOT painful. It’s not a race so just chill. I like doing some mobility work and dynamic stretches before training and don’t do static all that much actually. I find that’s all that’s necessary. It depends on what you’re after really. If you want to be able to kick well, I’d say dynamic stretching and becoming agile and free within the body is all you need. This is what I do because that’s my focus and I am not interested in doing kick holds or the splits for display purposes. If that’s your aim then you’d have to work at static more

[@tomcourteney-hoare1421]

@@grantstevensma Bless you brother.Thankyou

[@godhs4467]

Eloquently understoodΔ

[@fentonkimiywi1867]

Hello , Am a boxer and I want to learn kicks, lessons for a beginner like me please!

[@symonmungur9895]

thx

[@tomasmonteiro3805]

i cant seem to do powerful kicks after strong punch combinations quick enough any tips?

[@grantstevensma]

Good question man and this is something I’ve commonly observed is that many peoples punch rhythm will be fast and powerful, yet when it comes to kicking they’re sluggish. One of the best and most simple ways to do improve this is that you have to shorten the gap between the two by literally forcing yourself into the kicks. This is essentially teaching your body to adapt to this way of doing it and overtime that gap will become shorter and shorter so it takes time and reps, like lifting a weight to get stronger. You’ll also want to make sure you’re practising the kicking techniques in isolation, explosively from no movement so you condition your body to do it this way. Another reason may be that your punch combos are putting you out of balance, especially if you’re hitting with power and so you may wanna look at that as well. I recommend my video linked below here to help with this kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXXFhGOlgZeXjZYsi=g-cmzLNRpBP_Rp5e

[@andreapedroni3256]

Are you a Karateka? Idk why but your kicks make me remember those of Shotokan Karate.

[@grantstevensma]

One of the original styles I trained in was TKD actually, but I can see why you thought that

[@benhallo1553]

How on Earth did you get this flexible ?

[@grantstevensma]

I'm not crazy flexible actually bro. Above average of course, but much of what you see is technical refinement.

[@ajaydeepak8812]

Don’t you get tripped if you don’t have the contact area ? I get that the method that you’ve advocated here is fast and cool . I liked the analogy with circuits , cool video

[@grantstevensma]

Thanks brother. This is certainly a risk with any kicking technique and method. But it’s much more related to just the timing of the opponents sweep. If they hit your standing leg clean, whether you’re standing firm or mid kick, you’re likely to fall down. Plus this method I illustrate in the video happens in the most split second and is literally barely 1cm off the ground, plus I also mentioned to make sure you have I fact reestablished contact with the ground before the kick makes impact with the target. This is somewhat of an advanced concept that doesn’t apply if you’re just starting out, you shouldn’t by trying to do it this way unless you’re kicks are already on lock and you can perform them to a near copy and paste level every single time with speed and precision.

[@raymeester7883]

Who does your video editing?

[@grantstevensma]

I do it myself man

[@raymeester7883]

@@grantstevensma That's really good editing.

[@jonan2199]

Having your pivot planted helps with power and stability though

[@grantstevensma]

At a certain level of skill yes, but becomes detrimental beyond that. As with any skill the framework goes: 1. Learn the method 2. Perfect the method 3. Discard the method

[@desrochersphilippe]

Shoes???

[@grantstevensma]

Adidas Speedex Ultra

[@BravoSixGoingDark.]

nice, how tall are you though

[@grantstevensma]

173cm

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@@grantstevensma nice

[@SayboySeeya]

Are you an mma fighter?

[@grantstevensma]

No

[@timetostop.]

Bro leg mobility talk about it