Another instep kicking thread

**Torakaka** · Posted On: 9/11/2006 12:48pm

Originally Posted by El Macho

How do you generate "powah" for it???

It's not really a "power" kind of kick. It's all leg. Since your targeting a pretty tender spot with your heel, it doesn't take much. Plus it's one of those things that you don't really see coming so much.

**Torakaka** · Posted On: 9/11/2006 12:49pm

Originally Posted by Seraphim

I think a good possible counter would to shin kick the underside of their leg as they 'assumed the position'.

Either that or take like a maaann and grumble 'I like it'

Well, when I did it, it was from the clinch, so the guy really just wasn't gonna counter it.

**sochin101** · Posted On: 9/11/2006 3:14pm

Being a shotokan't kinda guy, it was always the ball of the foot. Very easy to measure distance etc, cos the guy in front of you just stood there, or at the very least, performed a lunge punch so you could hold onto his arm to steady yourself...
One I discovered the awesome power of shin on thigh/calf/ribs it was shin all the way. If I couldn't reach with the shin, I didn't throw the kick.

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 9/18/2006 11:57pm

Originally Posted by Kidspatula

Well, when I did it, it was from the clinch, so the guy really just wasn't gonna counter it.

Josh Thomson uses that tactic a lot, and the AKA guys call it a scorpion kick.
I only mention that because it's such a sexy name.

**Ecks** · Posted On: 9/19/2006 3:18pm

Why the hell do kicks get all the cool names? How come no "Merciless Spinning Elbow Strike" or "Stingray Knee?"

(Yea, I'm aware those aren't that cool names, But you get the idea)

**Torakaka** · Posted On: 9/19/2006 3:23pm

you're just not looking in the right places if you can't find other strikes with exotic names.

According to Beautiful Boxer, the spinning elbow is referred to as "Giant twirls the Earth" in muay boran manuals, and I'm sure there are plenty of other techniques in there with crazy names.

**Ecks** · Posted On: 9/19/2006 3:34pm

Originally Posted by Kidspatula

you're just not looking in the right places if you can't find other strikes with exotic names.

According to Beautiful Boxer, the spinning elbow is referred to as "Giant twirls the Earth" in muay boran manuals, and I'm sure there are plenty of other techniques in there with crazy names.

I was aware of those names, it's just that I thought those were literal/direct translations, and used more for poetic flourish than actual terminological use . Speaking Chinese myself, I know they have a tendency to sound exotic and exaggerated when directly translated. I have no experience in Thai though, so your word is probably worth more than mine here.

That is a cool name though. I always thought those terms used in Ong Bak and such were more for dramatic effect.

**alex** · Posted On: 9/19/2006 4:06pm

i know a cobra punch >_<

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 9/19/2006 5:30pm

Remember in Ong Bak, where Tony Jaa steps on the knee of the crazy French fighter and knees/kicks him in the head?
What was that called? Hanuman crosses the city? King crosses the city? For that matter which move was it?
It's somewhere around here: http://www.thai-boxing.org/2006/05/2...-ask-movement/