Why Spinning Kicks Are Too Risky For Real Fight

Reason why Spinning kicks are too risky / too dangerous for real fight situation is: Your opponent can intercept it while you turning your body.

Compared with normal strikes, spinning strikes are too slow in real fight because they need more time for the turning motion. Your opponent can intercept it anytime they want.

See? The opponent can hit your back bone or your back brain, very dangerous.

Seriously, injury at your back brain or your back bone are not fun, that’s hurt you know?

They also can grab your leg or choking your neck from behind like this:

The fact is: Spinning kicks are created for martial dance art, for aesthetic purpose like in Freestyle Capoeira or Wushu Taolu martial dance competition.

Even real high quality Freestyle Capoeira & Wushu Taolu clubs are never promote their club as "Fighting Sport" like Muay Thai or Boxing. Honest in bussiness is the key of success, people will respect and trust you.

How To Kicking In Limited Space Like Narrow Alley

Street thugs or robbers are often attacking their victim at limited space like narrow alley. How we kick them in small place where we can’t swinging our leg properly as we want?

For punching style martial artists like Boxing, Kuntao or Panantukan fighters, that’s not problem because their close range fighting styles are created for that. How about with kicking style martial artists like Taekwondo, Taekkyon or Savate fighters who are more focus on long range fighting?

 

Long range / kicking style fighters are still able to kick their opponent, but only with linear kicks. Like Front Kick, Side Kick, Front Knee, Leg Stomp and Groin Kick.

For semi circular kicks like Round Kick, Sweep and Round Knee, you can still use them as long as there have enough space. To measure the space, you can place your hands on hip like this, if you can’t do it there then the space is too limited.

Full circular kicks like Outside Crescent and Inside Crescent are impossible, because you need more space to swing your kick. Don’t use it for this situation.

How To Kicking Opponent's Leg Without Breaking Our Own Shin

*Warning!! Photos in this article are horrifying for sensitive readers!!*

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Why there are so many fighters who broke their own shin when they kicking the opponent’s leg in fighting tournaments?

The reason is: Those fighters who broke their own shin are smashing their own weak bone wrongly to opponent’s strong body part.

Some instructors are often teaching their students to aiming the Round Kick to opponent's thigh like these:

The fact is: Kicking the opponent’s thigh using Round Kick is ineffective technique because thigh have strong and thick muscle. 

And if the opponent blocking our kick using a Leg Check, our shin will crashing their strong knee part and we will break our own shin. Thin bone meet with thick bone, that's will be very hurt.

Round Kick is only effective to kicking opponent’s soft and weak areas. Like side chin, ribs or calf.

 

Even if the opponent blocking our kick using Leg Check, we will not breaking our own shin because our shin is not crashing the opponent's strong knee part. Thin bone meet with Thin bone so it won't break.

Sometimes the opponent's hanging leg will be carried along with our kick, so it won't feel hard to out shin.

One interesting question is: When we aiming our Round Kick to opponent's ribs, they often doing Leg Check and our shin hit their knee too. But why our shin is not break here?

Because when the opponent doing Leg Check too high to blocking our high Round Kick, their balance is unstable, their body mass become weak. Sometimes the opponent also will fall when trying to Leg Check-ing our high kick like these:

The impact on the our shin is not too hard, sometimes there is no impact. That why our shin will not break here (based on my personal experience).