Our board break this quarter is a choice of either a back kick or a spin hook kick. I've practiced the back kick enough that I can pretty easily break a board doing it. Admittedly, I take it slow to make sure I have the technique correct but I can still do it. In light of that, I've been trying to focus on my spin hook kick. Tonight, we got to practice it. Good thing my butt has a bit of padding.
I perform the kick with my right leg usually. My technique is basically to rotate clockwise to face backwards like I was going to do a back kick, pause and take a look over my right shoulder to eye the target, and then shoot my leg out similar to a back kick but to the opponent's right (my left) and rotate to do the kick. The problem I have is getting the rotation as I'm doing it while still maintaining my balance and control. I have a tendency to be high over the target. When I am high over the target, I get off balance and have my left foot slip out from under me. Because of the rotation, I land on my butt. This has happened more than once.
During board breaking, we usually have a couple of holders while we line up and take turns. When I was at the back of the line, I just kept practicing and practicing the kick itself. I figured out that if I just tried to keep the kick a little lower and not try for the height, I had a lot more control over the kick and my balance. I believe that if I just keep practicing the technique, the height to the kick will come as I get more comfortable with it.
The question is now whether or not I have the guts to do the spin hook kick during the test in a little over 2 weeks or if I will just fall back to the back kick which I'm very comfortable doing.
We also do a spin hook kick during 1 of our kicking combinations: back leg round house, spin hook kick, punch-punch, repeat in other direction. I have trouble with doing the kick with my left leg where I know I'm not getting anywhere near enough speed and height on it. It's something I have to spend extra practice time on before the test.
I did get that black recommended stripe tonight at least.
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Congrats on the stripe!
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