Kicking

Sometime ago I stumbled across a secret or what I thought is a secret with regards to kicking. The result of this is that kicks are faster and not telegraphed but it assumes that you have a more face on stance like in Wing Chun which I prefer but more on that later. To do this kick you pick up your leg until the thigh is parallel to the ground or somewhat parallel and then from that position you launch whatever kick you intend, the side, front or roundhouse whatever tickles your fancy. The one thing is that you take a lot of the oomph from the kick but the speed and surprise advantage you get is tremendous! Try it, but it takes a lot to bring the rest of the body to bring such a kick into being especially with the side and roundhouse kicks.

With those kicks you have to swivel your supporting leg very quickly to counter-balance the effects of the rotation so as to not hurt your knee. Let me know if this helps.