"If you grab, kick them. If you are grabbed, kick them."

 

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Victor Donald Smith A case can be made that originally okinawan kicking was more to the legs (thigh and shin), to the knees, to the ankles and to the groin. Not much used for demonstration but effective IMO.

 

Tom Ros Outside of training, I use kicks sparingly and only low ones. In the Dojo/dojang or Mo gwoon someone may grab you and just stand there for training purposes but When grabbed in the real world a person is trying to accomplish something ie control you to hit, push or pull you so your balance is a factor that has to be considered. Its only logical IMO.

 

Victor Donald Smith Which points out the fault of training if you don't consider how to kick if you are grabbed. Just a thought.

 

Tom Ros Victor Donald Smith absolutely agreed!!! I always point out to students that training is a laboratory a beginner may practice static fashion to get feel and movement down but it must progress beyond the sanitary conditions of a training hall for real world use.

 

 

Thinking about kicking beyond the stationery kicking one learns first, or the kicking used for sport karate. There is much more that one has to look at. These are a few possibilities:

 

As a beginner one of the first kicking drills I learned was how to execute a side kick from the floor, next another a heel thrust technique from your back on the floor. I have always taught my students the same way.

 

When you consider being grabbed and controlled there are different circumstances.

 

1.     Where you are grabbed and twisted off balance.

2.     Where you are grabbed but maintain balance.

3.     Where the grab, shove puts you down.

 

I am sure there are other options to consider but those are a good place to begin.

 

This is different from standing stationary kicking or kicking as offensive technique. You must train go have a potential response.

 

1.     Where you are grabbed and twisted off balance.

a.     It is a possibility to drop to the ground kicking on the way down, or kicking from the floor.

b.    Of course another possibility is to work on delivering kicks while unbalanced, directed so as to unbalance the attacker in turn.

c.      It may be possible to step away from the grabbing motion to establish balance for a kick

2.     Where you are grabbed but maintain balance.

a.     This type of grab immediately allows a kicking response.

3.     Where the grab, shove puts you down.

a.     It is a possibility to drop to the ground kicking on the way down, or kicking from the floor.

b.    Another option is to turn away with force grounding to your knees and then back kicking from the floor.

c.      All such possibilities need training and practice to make work. Among the skills to develop learning break falls to be able to ground as safely as possible. Work to develop kicks that can be launched while in the motion of grounding.

 

In any case the potential kicks should be made to the lower lever, to keep as much balance as possible.

Targets can be the hip joint, the groin, into the inner and outer thigh, into the inner and outer lower leg, the knee (front and back), the ankle, the foot and the toes are all targets to be learned.

 

Kicks can be done with the knee, the heel of the foot (moving in or from behind), the ball of the foot, the blade of the foot. the instep as a striking object to the inner thigh of inner shin.

 

The foot to sweep and the foot to reap the leg.

 

Obviously this list is not inclusive. It just is a group of techniques to consider.

 

When one is grabbed the key to kicking is the more unobvious the kick, the better chance it has of moving beneath the radar of the attacker.

 

For when they grab you for control, actually they have begun to commit themselves which can be exploited if you are trained.

 

Hint: the hand grabbing you becomes a stable point that also provides a form of balance to exploit. Of course that must be done very quick before they change the force against you. But everything had a mid point which can be exploited providing you practice to do so.

 

There is no free lunch, just continual correct practice!