video: critique my roundhouses

**Thaiboxerken** · Posted On: 7/16/2006 2:31pm

Meng.. are you striking the bag with the outside of your foot or leg? Try to point the toe of your striking leg up a bit. You want to impact with your shin, not the calf or ankle.

**Shaolinz** · Posted On: 7/16/2006 4:09pm

Some minor advice, relax your leg a little more. It seems like your tensing it up. Your hips are doing the work, just let your leg follow. In back work try to get UP on the balls of your feet to really dig in that pivot on your plant leg. Your leg is also suppose to be coming into the pad at an angle not straight into it. Hard for me to tell in the vid but its good general advice. Also, its not horribly relevant to your kicking technique but keep your hands higher, period. Even in bag work its a must to keep your hands high enough or you'll end up throwing kicks with your hands down. Also in regards to the hands, I try to keep one hand up when I kick. The same side arm as the side I'm kicking with I still move the same as your doing. However, I try to keep the back hand up by my head.

Keep up the good work.

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 7/16/2006 4:18pm

Originally Posted by TehDeadlyDimMak

Meng did you ever find a gym to train at or are you still training with the same club?

I remember you said you were gonna stop by some weekend, but I didn't see you.

I'd love to train at Boston Sanda Kungfu, but I commute 1 hour to work to and from, so that seriously takes away my free time.

As for the next weekend, I got totally caught up in trying to graduate.

Once I move to my new apartment closer to work, I hope to have the free time to head downtown once a week and one the weekends. Transitioning to work has been tough.

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 7/16/2006 4:20pm

Originally Posted by RogueSamurai

Next time wear clothes please.

:) not responsible. Already warned you.

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 7/16/2006 4:22pm

Originally Posted by Thaiboxerken

Meng.. are you striking the bag with the outside of your foot or leg? Try to point the toe of your striking leg up a bit. You want to impact with your shin, not the calf or ankle.

I hit with the very base of my shin. I err on the side of my instep and sometimes even the outside ankle, partly because of the hip turning obsession. Yeah, this is something I need to work on.

**Torakaka** · Posted On: 7/16/2006 4:41pm

This is just my opinion, and I could be totally off on this, but I recommend trying to keep your leg a bit straighter when kicking and imagine your leg is fused to your hip.

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 7/16/2006 4:55pm

Originally Posted by Kidspatula

This is just my opinion, and I could be totally off on this, but I recommend trying to keep your leg a bit straighter when kicking and imagine your leg is fused to your hip.

I'll try both ways from where I am now: stiffer and looser. And I'll mess around with the stiffness at the leg's attachment to the hip.