How to Have Fast Kicks?

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

To increase fast twitch muscle fibers you either need to do fast explosive movements with light weight or heavier weighted slow movements.

Doing slow movement with less weight and more reps develops slow twitch muscle.

It does teach you the technique though. When you're kicking slowly, proper technique and balance are much more important, so when you kick more quickly, it's a better overall kick. No clue about the fast twitch slow twitch stuff, it all goes over my head.

 

[drop bear]

To increase fast twitch muscle fibers you either need to do fast explosive movements with light weight or heavier weighted slow movements.

Doing slow movement with less weight and more reps develops slow twitch muscle.

Yeah i would have said plyometric and a high volume of training.

You also need cardio to be explosive.

Just basically kick so that you are rooted at the end of a three minute session.

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Besides perhaps ankle weights, ...

Ankle weight is a bad idea. You can injury your knee joint big time.

 

[CB Jones]

Ankle weight is a bad idea. You can injury your knee joint big time.

Not if you are using them to increase chambering speed.

My son uses ankle weights while just chambering into a side kick position or front kick position as fast as possible because the leg stays perpendicular with the ground it does not put pressure on the knee joint

 

[Martial D]

Not if you are using them to increase chambering speed.

My son uses ankle weights while just chambering into a side kick position or front kick position as fast as possible because the leg stays perpendicular with the ground it does not put pressure on the knee joint

But wouldn't that pull down on the knee joint though?

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Not if you are using them to increase chambering speed.

My son uses ankle weights while just chambering into a side kick position or front kick position as fast as possible because the leg stays perpendicular with the ground it does not put pressure on the knee joint

Slow speed and weigh may be OK. Fast speed and weight don't go together.

 

[CB Jones]

But wouldn't that pull down on the knee joint though?

But how the knee is constructed pulling 5-10 lbs in a straight up and down motion doesn't cause damage

 

[Punchy]

Of course you have to practice fast, but you need to start out learning by being slow, developing proper form and developing smoothness.

Then your technique will be truly fast, not just all jerky and tense.
I've used and taught this method for going on 38 years and it seems to work.

 

[DavyKOTWF]

Thanks all!
I'll practice slow to get proper technique and will practice with 2.5 lbs slowly to just raise my knee. So Yak Sao, that 2nd vid you showed above is what you mean by
chamber our kicks but just raise the knee? It's more of a step and kick? via 'step to kick and kick to step' ?
et al, so to raise the knee and chamber, while leaning body back for balance, then kick and retract, is only for a massive power kick to push?
But Yak Sao's fast, 'snap' kick is more for speed, surprise, efficiency, it seems. Which is the Wing Chun way.

 

[Gnarlie]

The preying mantis master Brendan Lai told me the following method:

After shower, when your body is still wet, throw one front kick. you then check to see if your leg is completely dry.

Sounds like it could be slippy....

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[paitingman]

1: REPETITION!
2: Explosive muscle training. Sprints and the like.
3: I would say no to leg weights, but kicking in water is good if done correctly. You can be ankle deep or waist deep, just focus on the initial explosion

Always practice technique

 

[Anarax]

What's the best way to develop FAST front kicks? Just wear ankle weights?

I would Suggest checking out Bill Wallace's kick training videos on YouTube. He's a world renowned Martial Artist/Kicker.

 

[Buka]

I would Suggest checking out Bill Wallace's kick training videos on YouTube. He's a world renowned Martial Artist/Kicker.

He also has a bachelor's degree in Phys Ed and a Master's degree in kinesiology.

 

[Punchy]

 

[Anarax]

He also has a bachelor's degree in Phys Ed and a Master's degree in kinesiology.

That's right, he's an educated man. Bill is very intelligent and approaches his conditioning scientifically.

 

[Jaeimseu]

I use this exercise to develop rhythm and increase speed, especially for combination kicking.


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[Punchy]

I use this exercise to develop rhythm and increase speed, especially for combination kicking.


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And the cool thing is you could practice while walking down the street and people would be none the wiser.

 

[Buka]

The best exercise I’ve found to increase speed in kicking is sprinting. Short distance sprinting.

And obviously, at least I hope it’s obvious, being fit.

 

[axelb]

Increased hip flexor strength for chamber, quad strength for kick extension.

Plyometrics after enough strength is built up.

Flexibility, with increased range in ham strings and hip flexor, the kick can be executed with less resistance.

 

[marques]

What's the best way to develop FAST front kicks? Just wear ankle weights?

Up to the other options surely valid, I have made it look fast being slow. As most of my training was under the rule 'do it slow', I was forced to hide kicks in footwork, fakes, feints and in combinations with hands. Pure speed was just not an option in regular training. Of course, if I can had speed to my other skills, it is a nightmare for the opponent (I said if I can; or you).