9 Ways to LAND Crescent Kicks! Mikazuki Geri w/ Icy Mike Hard2Hurt

[@SenseiSeth]

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[@AlexanderGent]

I want to see more kip ups! I can never seem to nail them!

[@SenseiSeth]

I did a video on them!

[@kungfujoe2136]

having come from karate to teakwondo i was no used to the axe kick and got shaken by it a couple of times (kickboxes and baratekas usualy dont know it imho) i like it better than cresent kick the axekick ccan come strait down starting from outside or starting from inside

[@AlexanderGent]

@@SenseiSeth haha, really, I'll have to check it out, no hands as well!

[@SenseiSeth]

I do too

[@SwordTune]

Sensei Seth and Hard2hurt are just slowly amalgamating into two halves of the same whole.

[@SenseiSeth]

Hahahah

[@koraegi]

This the most romantic thing I've read

[@thetalantonx]

@@koraegi Yep, a better love story than Twilight and the MATuber OTP

[@CookieIsBack024]

Fr love these collabs

[@Jedi_Jed]

I'm kinda jealous you got to get kicked in the head by WonderBoy.

[@SenseiSeth]

It was an honor lol

[@burninggundam77]

That bad tornado kick is used a lot in my style of Kung Fu (Northern Shaolin). And the set that Icy Mike use to throw that kick is used in our forms. Actually crescents in general are used throughout that style. This video has shown me some variations I already used and have never thought of. Thanks! Got new stuff to show my students!

[@nitrox6678]

Appreciate kyokushin reference. In a very close distance it's difficult to kick a proper roundhouse to the head but you can squeeze the crescent kick in - I do it all the time.

[@SenseiSeth]

Exactly! Hard to turn that kick over in close quarters

[@visableusername_93]

These collabs get better and better. Keep em coming man 😂 in bits everytime, and always come away having learnt something new 👌🏻

[@SenseiSeth]

I’m happy to do it! Thank you 🙏🙏

[@oltoddilocks]

he’s right. so cool, call up karate nerd more too!

[@SenseiSeth]

Will do soon!!

[@redd_Jack340]

Drunk in my parking lot at midnight laughing out loud at this video. Love the energy whenever you two get together

[@SenseiSeth]

Hahaha thanks boss

[@dkoons69]

In like my second month of class, my shifu had me and a senior student hold pads while he demonstrated kicks. When it came time for him to throw crescent I thought it wasn't going to do much. I was wrong. He knocked both of us like 10 feet back into the wall! I never disregarded crescent kicks again no matter what anyone said.

[@SenseiSeth]

Nice!!

[@nephiilim]

in capoeira we actually have the "bad tornado kick" as a move as well as in the form of a spinning push kick. Mike would be a dope ass capoeirista. It fits him

[@Summer_Tea]

If this video was my first exposure to Icy Mike, hoo-boy I would have a very different impression of his attitudes towards martial arts and effective striking 😂

[@SenseiSeth]

Hahaha mike tried to bring out my dark side, but we got to him first

[@nunninkav]

Was it that cartwheel kick? Lol.

[@SenseiSeth]

Lol

[@harrisontesoura]

I sure wasn't expecting to see Icy Mike bust out some Capoeira in this video! I thought Capoeira was cool when I first started but I didn't think it worked either...at first. Capoeira fooled a lot of Capoeiristas too Sensei Seth!

[@SenseiSeth]

That’s pretty dope 👏👍

[@groenendael9203]

The first time my Muay Thai instructor threw a crescent kick in sparring and it took me 5 seconds to figure out how his foot took that path, I decided crescent kicks were viable

[@PABeaulieu]

I am not very flexible (I began Kyokushin Karate at 48 in January of 2019 with no prior martial art training), so I have a hard time with kicks like the Mawashi Geri and the Yoko Geri (I cannot kick higher than the waist of an opponent of my height.) However, I'm able to hit up to the shoulders using Soto Mawashi Geri and Uchi Mawashi Geri kicks. Those kicks are useful to break your opponent's guard, then to quickly hit with a Mae Geri, or an arm strike (fist or elbow).

[@SenseiSeth]

Nice!! I like it!

[@VenturiLife]

Andy Hug was able to throw the most amazing crescent kick, looked like a partial axe kick too.

[@okinawanwarrior8689]

"I'm going to take this right foot...." I remember Billy Jack popularized inside outside crescent kick in this country. Effective kick but very difficult to master and execute correctly. Requires good timing, snapping and whipping all coordinated at precise chain of events.

[@SenseiSeth]

Hahahaha

[@Mr_TimeMachine_Too]

Mike’s Tornado Crescent Kick actually looks really good, I dig that. Also Mike definitely forgot to take his Adderall 🤣

[@calvinwallis2634]

Finally crescent kicks getting some love 🎉

[@BrianNichol]

Icy Mike got some capoeira chops! With all do respect... I did not see that coming 🙏❤️😅

[@SenseiSeth]

He does!!0”

[@lady_draguliana784]

Tornado kick is sometimes called "jump-turning roundhouse" and similarly there is "Jump-turning crescent" exists, at least in Karate

[@eastchchkea6475]

One of my favorite kicks. Offensively and defensively useful. Fast and litte effort needed.

[@rubenrelvamoniz]

This is why Kata is a freakin goldmine. Usually in heian godan I refer to that part as mikazuki geri -> empi. Very interesting topic seth

[@anita-rw3mx]

This is the first vid Ive seen from y'all and Im hooked. This is exactly the vibe I love to bring/want to experience during classes and I relate so much to beard guy getting the zoomies during the span of the video. Great work.

[@gabeanzek3148]

you can also use the knee up part of a tornado kick and turn it into a crescent kick

[@bboye.musical9349]

Ok, that capoeira section made me happy lol shoutout to hard2hurt 🙌🏾👌🏾

[@gingercore69]

A double crescent spinning kick(basically doing a bad tornado kick but you kick with both feet one after the other doing an outside crescent when you "take of" and an inside crescent before landing) is called "flying dragon kick"

[@SenseiSeth]

Hmmmm

[@gingercore69]

@@SenseiSeth btw, the chinese name is fei long, thats what translated into flying dragon

[@jeanackle]

Number 9 also looks like a Judo sweep: Kouchi Gari (Inside Minor Reap). That would be a nice one for you to look into as well. I actually did both a couple years of Judo (when I was in Elementary School) and a couple years of Capoeira (in my early 20's) and Judo made me feel more comfortable in taking risks and not be afraid of getting in the pocket when training/sparing Capoeira, as that was Judo throwing range. I never used Judo in Capoeira sparring, but I often thought "I could use this Judo technique here or there". Speaking of Capoeira sparring, I went to two different schools of it (and one guy told me about a third one); they had very different aproaches to intensity. Actually, "intensity" isn't the best word. There was the so called "fitting game", where you tried to fit your moves into the other's moves gracefully, just like a dance; and then there was the so called "malice game", where you tried to trick your partner into thinking you were going to fit in something one way, but actually did something different, trying to clip them. In the first school I went to, we did both fitting and malice (it wasn't the instructor who called it, we did, on the spot), but we pulled back on the strike. On the second one, we only did fitting (boring, but the instructor never told me off when I did a little malice, so... :D ). The other guy (who I'd met in the first school) told me of a school where they actually went hard on the hits, and tried to hurt each other. If you want to try Capoeira, look at one of their "Rodas" (circle inside which they do their sparring) beforehand, to get an idea of what they're about.

[@raydrexler5868]

I agree with your definition of inside vs outside. I have had karate instructors say inside starts on the inside and Kung Fu instructors say inside ends on the inside. I look at what part of my foot is connecting with the target, outside crescent hits with the outside of the foot and vise versa

[@toddellner5283]

I got my bell rung hard by one once. I thought he was shifting to the left, but it was a right inside crescent kick.

[@SenseiSeth]

It’ll sneak up on you

[@samadamsfitness6246]

Been there

[@nunninkav]

When you come across like that, it's sneaky.

[@PegLegNinja]

Taking a lot of inspiration from tkd lately I see. Honestly I appreciate the wide variety!

[@judofry]

I loved this and it is also funny seeing you guys riff like a high school garage band, figuring stuff out

[@shynn-obislick3925]

I was taught the inside or outside crescent depends on which side of the foot you strike with. Outside crescent strikes with the outer blade, and the inside crescent strikes wkfh the inner blade of the foot.

[@lukethibodaux790]

The crescent kick is one that I trained regularly yet rarely ever had a chance to use, I have landed it exactly one time, fought a guy with an exceptionally wide boxing stance. I disguise it as a low roundhouse and snap the hip back at the last second much like Seth shows, caught him right on the point of the chin, not one of my knockouts but it did leave him stunned and more then a little confused as to what exactly just hit him.

[@marklaughlin1290]

Sensei Seth, @3:28 the "Hatchet Kick". I teach that kick too but call it a front leg skip ax kick. If you add a little skip forward as you do it, you can start the kick from further away, knock away their defensive hands and follow-up with a job/cross/elbow/etc. It helps you to gain a lot of distance, really quickly. Just my 2-cents. :-)

[@Diabolical-Divinity]

Very organic. Made for a good watch plus, You two just work!

[@grayalun]

I love crescent kicks I think they are underrated, I like to fake the outward one with my front leg deliberately coming up a bit short and then wind up with a rear leg turning kick off the back leg as they look to close the distance. I'm not as keen on the inward crescent kick though.

[@SenseiSeth]

Crescent kicks can be fun!

[@shynn-obislick3925]

I have always loved crescent kicks. And im glad i have always specilized in this kick, because post injury (and with age) my hips struggle with high side kicks and round houses. But front kicks and cresent kicks are more anatomically favorable to our natural range of motion. Its easier maintain flexibility in this direction because its the knee and toes point in the natural direction they do for walk-in and running. I hope i explained well. But yeh i can only do mid side kicks, and round kicks now.

[@therealfodder]

Every Sensei Seth and Icy Mike video: Seth: "Today we're making a serious tutorial on..." Mike: "Hold my rattle" (edited to say - it's all the better for it!)

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

This was probably my favorite video so far. I used to not like crescent kicks cuz I didn't understand them or how to use them. Then I took capoeira and learned how to use and apply them along with other strikes. I also love that reverse roundhouse where you swing to inside like a regular roundhouse but switch to the opposite direction. I used to hey my friend with that all the time in sparring, cuz I'd also switch which leg. And sometimes to opposite order. Going outside change to inside. Also love the Booker t shout out. I just loved everything about this video.

[@SenseiSeth]

That’s so surprising to me. What made it your favorite video?? I HATED this video and thought I “made it work fine” by the time I was done with

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

@@SenseiSeth I used to think crescent kicks werent that great until I took capoeira. And then even practiced them on bags and in sparring, and also using them as an axe kick set up also. I liked the tornado kicks you guys did. As that's one of the moves we learn in capoeira and theres another variation. I'm still learning it, not very good at either tornado styles. The outside roundhouse, I haven't practiced it much lately but I use to use it all the time. Bringing up capoeira in general, and the spinnaruni(idk how it's spelled anymore) and Booker t shout out. Capoeira isnt my favorite martial art, but it's one I've been learn more consistently so I like when i see you guys and ramsey dewey giving it some credibility. Makes me feel like it's worth it. Even though I've already been trying it, I'm a lower level martial artist compared to you guys.

[@whawhaa]

kyokushin guys use this kick alot and a ton of variations of it, ranging from pretty powerful to very powerful

[@999jay999]

I used this in a drill to knock out potential weapons from someones hands in front of me using either the left leg to go high (my) right shoulder cutting diagonal across & down back to left stance taking out left handed held object. Or right back leg to go high (my) left shoulder cutting diagonal across & down back to right stance taking out right handed held object. It worked quite well at the time. :)

[@SenseiSeth]

I don’t know how I feel about that.. what was said weapon?

[@999jay999]

@@SenseiSeth I hope I explained it well enough, but as we was only drilling my partner held a spoon haha (safety reasons of course as we were in bare feet at the time). Due to the trajectory of kick and fast enough (gravity helps a lot here) with it you can take it out the opposing hand. Its not a full gone conclusive move and will not work all the time but what move does. ;)

[@ryanciccone512]

I practice shaolin kung fu and it so so very useful 👌 one of my favorite kicks

[@WisdomCat2198]

Are there any Capoiera techniques that you find effective in a competition setting? Not just the kicks, but the defense for said kicks. What I've noticed is that Capoiera dancers tend to evade bigger kicks more fluidly & are able to counter on a dime. I'd really like to hear your input, Sensei. P.s. I hope you got those croissants.

[@SenseiSeth]

I’ll look into it! That’s a cool idea

[@WisdomCat2198]

@@SenseiSeth I've also got a question for Icy Mike. Are there any techniques from Wing Chun that someone could use in a clinch setting? Folding elbows & wrist control are prevalent in MMA, but I was wondering if there are any other techniques that are worth looking into? Wing Chun seems to suffer from distance management & lack of lateral movement & head movement. Are there any ways that a martial artist could make that style viable for competition?

[@SenseiSeth]

He said no, Kung Fu is hopeless

[@WisdomCat2198]

@@SenseiSeth I was thinking if anyone could make a close range style like that work, it would be Icy Mike. I believe that some ideas will come to him if he takes a deeper look into it.

[@SenseiSeth]

Hahaha I was just kidding, I didn’t ask him

[@confessedrock7358]

When your channel blows up I hope you still keep talking to fans, luv ya bro

[@JKBEAST]

Its really interesting seeing people on the internet bashing TKD, where as almost all the variations of this kick are used alot in TKD (like mixing crescent with an axe kick). And at 5:55, its literally a move in TKD Poomsae (forms, basically TKD version of Kata). And when I first time tried this one while practising forms, my kick had enough momentum to give a strong jerk to my arm and hurt my elbow, lol. Not disrespecting or comparing any other martial arts, just wanna say the point that sometimes TKD is really slept on. May be because of the point sparring.

[@andrewskokan6372]

You guys are great together. Please keep doing videos!

[@CoachKussenVuist]

Great and fun video! To add to it, you should watch Kyokushin Norichica tsukamoto (?) he has some insane cresent kicks, also Korean Teakkyon has a lot as wel.

[@SenseiSeth]

I’ll look into it!!

[@thejapanarchocommunist]

Sensei Seth and Icy Mike is the best unwritten bromance ever, and I mean that in the best way possible

[@SenseiSeth]

😂😂😂

[@redd_Jack340]

We love to see it

[@Bansheexero]

Turning outward crescent was fun. As a counter, it's a jawbreaker.

[@Panthro11]

Wow! Definitely a new fan of the channel!

[@SenseiSeth]

Thank you my friend!!

[@dragoninja13]

At my family karate studio and we do alot of sport karate and we have a 16 year old boy who at about 5'10" does a jump spinning crescent (bad tornado kick lol) and breaks 2 1"thick boards at about 10' in the air, my father in law, our instructor, is 6'4" and holds the boards up over his head with metal tongs, the tongs usually end up bent is kinda scary how hard he hits those things

[@SenseiSeth]

I love jump spin crescent kicks! I totally forgot to put them in

[@thomasstevens4622]

That was pretty cool. Kicks are fun but punches are great. LOL My 7 year old grandson can hit those kicks he is a senior Yellow belt in taekwondo. I struggle with kicks sticking to front kicks, side kicks and a spinning heal kick. My grandson can do the splits and we are working on his hamstrings to be able to kick straight up. I'll check out your higher kicking. I want to be ready to do a tournament when my grandson gets to green belt. Being 53 and working out again the stretching hurts sometime. Thank you for the videos looking forward to watching old ones and new ones

[@pv6304]

If you add a flick motion to these kicks, you can perform them faster and with more power. I've broken a guy's arm with a Outer Crescent Kick, and been knocked into next week by an Inward Crescent Kick.

[@mrmantis84]

Correction: the kick at 3:39 by wonderboy is a hook kick. Because it lands with the bottom of the foot when being nice for sparring and lands with the heel in actual fight. Other than that OSS! Enjoyed the vid.

[@jamesloehr641]

In taekwondo honestly in my class we use the Cresent kick as more of a way to set up spinning kicks or to back up the opponent to open them for another kick. Not so much as a real knockout or striking technique. Although you can land them in close if you are good at them. The outside Cresent tends to have more power and hits with the blade. It can land hard if they are just wide open for it at that moment. Or even as a sorta reverse roundhouse to the ribs.

[@The31st]

I’d say there’s a difference between that inside to out crescent kick and a twist/swivel kick (tkd vocab) where the crescent kick is hitting with outside of the foot, the blade, footsword bit and you’re swinging your leg and keeping your hip square, and the twist kick hits with the top of the foot so you turn your knee outward and snap the kick. That can have some pop on it as is a fun kick to use, the crescent kick is a leg swing

[@The31st]

Oh... well... touché

[@SenseiSeth]

Haha wait what’s the touché for?

[@The31st]

@@SenseiSeth the moment after I wrote that comment I unpaused the video and the words twist kick appeared on screen and I realised I was premature

[@gbormann71]

ura mawashi geri? or a 'crescent' version of it? There is a use case for these Japanese terms beyond earning nerd credentials 😁

[@The31st]

@@gbormann71 you what mate?

[@connergoldberg]

Crescent kicks are good for checking your opponent. If you're about to land one..sure.. turn it into an hatchet kick or what have you, but I think the most devastating use is the crescent kick as a set up for a Muay Thai hook kick/knee. Because you can utilize the momentum from the kick into your second kick whilst your opponent has ideally lost their footing due to avoiding your crescent kick set up.

[@3rdeye7thdimension]

This made me subscribe, not gonna lie. You were a good sport about icymike being overhyped. He must have been really excited to have you.

[@SenseiSeth]

Being over hyped?

[@SenseiSeth]

Oh hyper! Yea haha he’s all over the place 😂👍

[@cletusgadsden2969]

Mike has alot of energy!

[@SenseiSeth]

Rambunctious guy for sure

[@Zapinator321]

Now that you combined both intros you have the ultimate intro.

[@SenseiSeth]

This was the FIRST one I made! Like it?

[@Zapinator321]

@@SenseiSeth it Pretty good

[@SenseiSeth]

👏👏🙏

[@lady_draguliana784]

I keep wincing as you're throwing your crescents from a flat-footed support... that's how I twisted my knee as a teen... ow.... if you come off of your heels you can acheive marked improvement in your dynamic pivots 👍

[@apatheticsquid5658]

6:00 that's so weird because in suparenpei kata we hit the hand and spin all the way around. Might wanna take a look at the bunkai. Also I'm gonna get in so much trouble but the way ScOtT aDkInS teaches it and the way is to first lift the knee, twist this hips out and torque back in to throw the kick. Its kinda elusive and confusing, and I like to use them to set up other kicks like roundhouse, question mark or my favorite- turning side-kick(which obviously doesn't work. Also not sure if you've seen it but Jesse-sensei does a super cool tornado cresent. Edit: I made the tornado comment in relation to the initial point mike made

[@SenseiSeth]

We do it differently too. So many variations

[@nonyabizness2550]

I think one nice thing about the outside to inside crescent is for a shorter fighter to head kick. Icy can head kick seth with it easily. Idk if he can roundhouse him in the head but even if so its easier. Also faster and less telegraphed. And the closer range allows you to mix it with punches.

[@mattbugg4568]

Well these kicks work but with gloves on without hand holds your better off using frount kick round kicks. Reason why is the set up is different. If you just grab the wrist like the first inside crescent kick you showed its very easy to counter. The actual technique is if you grab the wrist and twist it and throw a punch over it so the opponents arm is twisted forearm up, then you bring your punching hand down on the elbow joint so that there structure starts to collapse. There opposite hand would be in guard and you take that arm and bring it up grab the opposite wrist start turning it over and bring your opposite arm forearm down into there elbow and throw a inward crescent into the back of the head. Or when you switch sides you raise the arm and start to turn the wrist over and stretch them out with roll back or a stretched out arm bar you then apply outward Cresent kick to the back of the head. So the set up of being able to turn the forearm of your opponent upward is the actual setup for this kick which in boxing gloves doesn't work. So doing a round kick to the head would be the correct usage because you can cover up your members when the actual hand trap with the forearm up is the cover of the crescent kick. When you do this kick with the arm bridge the correct counter is a upward block and opposite side strike to the members while jamming the opponent. When your stretched out you can't jamb because of the twisted arm you have to move the direction to undo the twisted arm not against it.

[@spencerorde8090]

I'm glad you have someone to talk to this about. Do you have views on 2 step sparring or single ippon sparring?

[@SenseiSeth]

Not a fan personally, but it’s great for working on fast twitch muscles and explosiveness

[@gbormann71]

It's also good for gradually exposing and conditioning very anxious kids to threats of physical violence. I was such a kid. Even with announced attacks I felt very uncomfortable as a kid. If they'd thrown me into fullblown sparring from the beginning I would probably have quit after a few lessons.

[@victorsrur134]

mikazuki geri can be chudan level too,would be something between a mae geri and a mawashi geri it would start as a mae geri but you turn your hip(less than a mawashi geri) and hit the liver or ribs

[@TheVictorsCircle]

Love this channel. So much fun...oh and knowledge. Lol!

[@SenseiSeth]

Baha thanks!!!

[@solarjudgement4575]

Those were some awesome TKD kicks you guys got there ;)

[@gwc6953]

I honestly have some pretty bad hit rotations on my left side so my roundhouse is a Muay Thai round House on that side and usually just because it's faster and shorter range I'll throw a crescent kick that kind of becomes around house because I flipped my hips at the last second

[@Dom_C7591]

2:40 I don’t know why, but this make me burst out laughing so loud 😂😂😂

[@perrenchan6600]

Have you seen Ramsey's vid on how he includes capoiera?

[@SenseiSeth]

No!

[@AustinCurtis1]

love you guys! cracking me up.

[@ChewieLuke]

Aw man, I've already liked this one...

[@eagle9717]

I'm watching this Video from the Hospital because I had a Motorcycle accident a few hours ago... I really want to train again but i cant xD That is really frustrating.... PS: Nice Video!

[@SenseiSeth]

Yo, dm me!! Are you good??

[@eagle9717]

@@SenseiSeth yeah, no broken bones or anything like that. Just some scratches. They just keep me here for a few days to see that everything stays good...

[@SenseiSeth]

Ah jeez, stay safe. Imagine how bad it would’ve been if you had done a spinning wheel kick on it! 😱😂

[@Berkelium_BK]

I haven't even watched the video, but I'm going to tell you right now that I, a TKD guy, have sparred with plenty of Muay Thai guys, and not one of them has seen the crescent kick coming.

[@SenseiSeth]

Crescent kicks are cool

[@oddmanout7755]

Awesome content again!

[@ramondiaz2851]

Those uppercut bags!! I damn wish I had!

[@samadamsfitness6246]

My sister used to fake crescent kick and pivot to a side kick a lot. She was really good at it.

[@SenseiSeth]

We have a similar variation!

[@samadamsfitness6246]

Sensei Seth the first time she caught me with that I was intent on learning it. It didn’t work well for me though.

[@SenseiSeth]

Sam Adams Fitness we have it as a part of our curriculum! Pretty cool she came across it on her own!

[@sailingwithkyle4708]

I love watching you two just mess around and talk about martial arts. yall should strip the audio and make it into some sort of podcast.

[@benjaminpujols1914]

LOL that was awesome I'm a big Booker T fan the spinaroonie is awesome

[@SenseiSeth]

Haha that’s awesome

[@markwarnersprofessionalmar3578]

Well done Sensei

[@SenseiSeth]

Glad you enjoyed it 👍🙏

[@Autonomous_617]

Inside crescents can be decent. Only time I ever got knocked out in the ring was with a crescent kick to the temple at a tkd tournament lol. "Bukai" style (i guess?), I got dude in the corner, he clinched a turned me into the crescent. Cant win em all.

[@aabax9138]

Did Mike have a few drinks before this? I feel like I watched bring your son to work day and he's hyped. Lol.

[@TRIDaily]

Keep up the good work!

[@SenseiSeth]

Thanks Nate!!

[@TRIDaily]

@@SenseiSeth It's great to see a creator engage with their community. I've been a subscriber to Hard2Hurt for a while, but in real life I study American Kenpo. I love to see your contributions and friendship with Icy Mike. Keep up the quality content!

[@SenseiSeth]

Stay on the Karate side! Hahah thanks bud 🙏🙏

[@Saiyanshanze13]

I have some killer variations to this

[@tofudog5699]

So do you recommend crescent kicks for mma and another one do you recommend capoeria for mma

[@SenseiSeth]

Not often

[@gbormann71]

@@SenseiSeth so politically correct reply 🤣🤣

[@Mr440c]

That kick is just less powerful than a regular round house because your leg has less room for charge up from this motion. But if you do a shorter version of a aroundhouse (mawashi) they become the same thing anyway.

[@merkabaseven1412]

Double inside crescent kick, must practice it.

[@SenseiSeth]

It’s a go to!!

[@Redneck_Technophile]

That Michael Jackson reference killed me XD

[@sisteaglass651]

I want to be able to do a kip up like the ending can you teach that lol

[@SenseiSeth]

I did a video on it! Search “Sensei Seth Kick up”

[@hermespino9985]

I was looking into this last night because I remembered Katsunori Kikuno from Dream

[@SenseiSeth]

Woahh

[@TreShadDMW]

Hey thanks this in needed how yall know? What about the straight up down Kick to the chin?

[@SenseiSeth]

I know everything

[@TreShadDMW]

@@SenseiSeth prove it and help me train then Sir

[@SenseiSeth]

Haha I got you

[@TreShadDMW]

@@SenseiSeth thanks oh is the shoulder block like Legal in Pro Boxing? Not a weak one either like as a clinch Counter?

[@Quisqueya77]

A Tae kwon do practitioner was needed for this video.

[@ramondiaz2851]

Man you have a awesome looking gym!

[@makaiev]

So should I chamber a Crescent from a front kick chamber or a roundhouse chamber? Or just not chamber at all?

[@jaxonroberts8280]

I feel like this my answer for the roundhouse kick. I'm pigeon toed so my hip sockets are screwed up and I dont have the best mobility. I can do this pretty well at least. Do you have any other suggestions for techniques for people with limited hip mobility?

[@texanmartialarts]

Good impression on King Bookemm.

[@joshuaharris1184]

Don't you think lateral pressure against the knee joint could be bad?

[@SenseiSeth]

Sure, but usually I’ve you’re hitting the head it’s not much pressure

[@nunninkav]

I always called it a crescent/axe. I guess maybe I'll call it a hatchet kick from now on.

[@SenseiSeth]

Hatchet kick is a cool name, huh?

[@daniel-san836]

I was always taught the crescent kick is exclusively for disarming a weapon held in an attackers hand, if getting away isn't an immediate option.

[@daniel-san836]

or if there isn't a chair or something you can grab and use to disarm them with if getting away isn't an option.

[@shynn-obislick3925]

I was taught that originally the crescent (inside/outside) were disarming techniques. Kicks to the head were not the original intent, but at some point they began to be head kicks as well. Probably dude to sports competitions where head kicks score high. But they were also used for striking the knees and heels for sweeping techniques.

[@pst5345]

crescent kicks are bitchslaps done with your foot. With speed they can catch somebody off guard if otherwise to close for proper roundhouse et al. Still pretty dangerous regarding balance. I use front leg crescent kick for advancing opponents. But only in TKD ruleset.