Snap Kick for Martial Arts Fitness

Snap Kick for Martial Arts Fitness
Hi! Next we're going to do the front snap kick, which is really easy. You can do it right in your own living room and practice to get better and get a good workout out of it. You're going to put your left leg in front and the right leg in the back. Have your back foot a little off to the side. You don't want to be like this and losing your balance. Have it right here off to the side and it's real simple. You lift your knee up, press your heel out, and come back. Now, the reason you lift your knee is if you don't, the kick will just come up straight somebody's body. The more you lift your knee and push it out, it goes into your opponent. Another thing is use your heel so you don't hurt your toes. If your toes are down you could break your toes. You're going to bend your front knee, lift your knee up, snap it, and bring it back. Now, the thing that people forget is they think they're done after they kick it out. No, you've got to pull your leg back fast so nobody grabs your leg. When you kick, the other half of the workout is pulling it back fast, and you'll feel it work the front of your legs a lot. At home, you can practice. After you've done the boxing workout, you can go into your kicks and get a whole workout at home and just drill by kicking and bringing it back. You can practice kicking to somebody’s knee as you still need to bring your knee up first and go down and bring it back, or the middle, or you can practice to the face and come back down. Then when you're done with that, of course, you want to do the other side and work evenly. Do your kicks if you can practice high if you're super flexible, but bring your knee up first and kick and bring it back. We just did the front snap kick. Another way to strengthen this kick and really get an intense workout is to bring your knee up, and you can hold something to balance as high as you can, and then extend your kick up. Then take your hand away and hold it and keep your back straight, and just hold it. Try to start with about 10 or 15 seconds and build up from there and then come down. Then of course, you want to do the other side, so bring your knee up as high as you can and then extend it straight up. Flex your foot and put the other hand like this and hold it up.