Hi all friends in the Old Tappan, Norwood, and Oradell area-welcome to my blog post. Today’s post is regarding a very underused kick in Mixed Martial Arts Competition: the Side kick. A lot of folks don’t teach this basic but powerful kick for a lot of reasons. It’s to telegraphed-leaves you off balance for a takedown-not as verastile as the round kick-the same thing can be accoplished with less risk with a push kick. The Chinese full-contact martial art of San Shou relies heavily on the side kick and those who have mastered it’s fundamentals have employed it very successfuly in full contact competition. Before judging a technique as inefficient, give an earnest effort to learn how to the fundamentals of a technique and you’ll add another useful powerful technique to your arsenal. Here is a good video of Cung Le employing the sidekick to good effect in MMA competition:

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