We were messing around with this today, and it's a sneaky little fucker. I can definitely see it being useful if you get really good at it. Any other Kyokushin guys on here use this or try it out?

(Here's a little tutorial I found on Youtube, for those of you who are interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUlUv0WhDcg )

I do that one all the time. I learned it from a Bill "Superfoot" Wallace tape (because you know...it's not in Kung Fu). That initial kick really has them thinking low kick, or front kick. It took quite a while for me to develop the power, though. I had this real tippy tappy deal going on with it, until I started sparring bigger stronger guys. They would walk right through it and I would fall onto a barbell or a tool bench (we sparred in my Sifu's garage back in the day) and got sick of "scoring" with it and started working on making them respect the kick.

I can't open my hips enough for it, and hit with my outside ankle as I'm almost turning away.

It's used in Gongkwonyusul. I like it a lot.

We were shown it on a freestyle course... as you can imagine, it was something of a revelation for Shotokan practitioners. We first had to be convinced that "faking" the front kick didn't constitute some kind of cheating, and was still honourable.
Then someone had to explain the concept of a round kick, and why at no point was a reverse punch utilised. Oh, the heady days of traditional karate.

I too had problems with rotating my hips far enough round to make the kick anything more than pointless tippy-tappy ****. Another kick we were taught on the seminar was a side-kick fake to hook kick... and that definitely worked and for me, was more effective.

Looks like TKD.

Yeah.


I do that kick, but try to hit with the heel.

I dig that kick, although I am not actually able to do it in any way that would threaten anybody. I am a fan of going the other direction though. IE - front fake or low roundhouse fake from the right, whip it back up and around to hit from the left with the instep. I did it when I started sparring in TKD and it worked really well, although to this day I don't know what it's actually called. With strong leg you can get some power into it and it's very quick.

Why??

Stretches the Hamstring.

I seen and done it, but was unaware it had a special name. I thought it was just a fake low-to-high, or something.

Gentleman, the key to the Brazil Kick is not that it is just a fake low kick to high kick. It is the angle at which the high round house scores. It comes down at an angle, rather than straight across.

thats a really cool kick. i wish i knew someone who did it so i can stop horribly immitating it. its like impossible for me to learn a technique without someone telling me im doing it wrong 12,000 times. i wish i could watch a video and pick things up like that.

Looks like TKD.

I was just thinking it looks like a savate kick.

I was just thinking it looks like a savate kick.
Dunno... I'd have to imagine him in a unitard to be sure... and I really can't bring myself to do that.

It dosen't really, anyway, just a little bit in the redirection. A savate kick would be a toe strike, likely.

I had a TKD'er surprise me with that like 12 years ago. I made up for it by making him eat straight blasts in the face everytime he stepped in. He then pouted and lectured me about "control." It's funny how everytime someone rushes me with their hands down and my lead jab ends up in their face I have "bad control."

When I did TKD, I loved low feint, high kick stuff. Or just low to high double kicks. Like the sidekick to the knee, then sidekick to the face. Or the sidekick to knee, hook kick (heel kick) to temple. Or left round kick to knee, followed by jumping right round kick to head. I was good at all of those, but the front kick to groin followed by a round kick to the temple actually was really hard for me to do. I used to have this crazy thing that everybody fell for; front kick feint to groin, followed by an outside crescent kick to head. I don't even know how I used to get my hips to do that, I just know I can't hardly do it now. Oh well, I have better hands and grappling now. Or, ya know, a stick.

Again, the Brazilian kick is not a low to high kick.

It can be done without faking the low kick, and just throwing it high.

The key to the Brazilian kick is that it comes at a downward angle.