What is a Gainer?

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Summary: Watch an expert martial artist explain and perform a gainer in this free video clip.

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Alfred Hsing Alfred Hsing is a UCLA grad that has trained martial arts for over 9 years. He has competed at tournaments nationally and internationally. Currently a member ... read more

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What is a Gainer?

OK so today we're going to be focusing and learning how to do a gainer. Let's just go into basically an introduction of the gainer. The description of it would be a couple of steps running and jumping, going backwards while kicking out one leg and the other leg following it and landing on either one or both feet. The reason it's called a gainer is because you're moving forward while still going backwards at the same time, so you're gaining or therefore the move is called a gainer. Also, if you're able to do a gainer pretty well from a standing, some people call that maybe a flash kick. So let's take a look at a gainer from this side. I'm going to cheat it a little bit by giving a little extra step but let's just take a look. So notice how it was going backwards, yet still moving in a forwards direction. People can also do a gainer by running straight forward and going back and landing into the gainer. Today though for the sake of this instructional video we're basically going to go over a gainer by running in a circle, because that helps your momentum and is a little bit easier to focus on for today as we learn the gainer. And then we can also focus on some additional steps and variations of the gainer.