Thanks

My experience is a lot of guys focus on the kicking leg way way too much (same with punches (the punch) and everything else.


The whole body is used to kick and with an over focus on the kicking leg the tendency seems to be kicking with the leg as opposed to full body synchronized movement. The base leg is often way under used. I teach what I call "the no kick kick". I tell them to forget about the kicking leg completely. Now of course the kicking leg is an equal part (not bigger in my opinion) but the huge focus is there already. I think the power comes from the launch from the ground (including the standing legs step), use of the ground during the kick, and core, balance (bigger focuses anyway).

It seems to help to get guys to think of a baseball club or golf club as the kicking leg. A baseball bat uses no power of its own. Its swung, there are no muscles used in the bat itself. Besides the launch and using enough muscle to position the leg and hold it firm for contact there is no "kick" in the kicking leg (like a Karate kick).

I think thats fairly accurate for what i find functional and seems to help guys from kicking more like Karate (unless that is what they want.