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Split Leg Form
For people with at least 5 years of experience: Have any of you developed bad habits in your kicks?
With great variance from right leg to left leg?
For example, I am right legged, but my left leg is way more flexible. I can do the splits on the left, and have about 10" to go on the right.
However, take a front leg hook kick to the face, my left side is faster, and this is one of my best kicks on the left, but technically speaking, I do not have the right body position on this hook and am technically performing it wrong.
On the right leg, I can do the front leg hook kick with perfect form, but in reality, I'd have no chance of landing it.
There are other examples and I've been this way for years.
Anyone else have the same problem? My current Master is trying to fix it, but it feels really awkward.
James
I have huge variance on my kicks.
Mind you my use of kicks isn't nearly as frequent, I use inside leg kicks, some body/liver kicks with my left leg, as a result (and the way I train and spar) my right leg sounds and hits like a mack truck on my kicks, while my left leg does just enough to hurt pretty bad.
There is a huge power variance between the two, as well as technique variance, (my left kicks do not look nearly as pretty).
However, as I do some work on technique with it, I am pretty happy because in reality I rarely use kicks other than leg kicks, some teeps, and body shots. I would rather concentrate on more functional for me techniques.
Ther eis always going to be somethings you use and that work for you, and somethings you don't.
Despite the fact that I train both right and left side in Judo, obviously my right handed techniques are going to be much better than my left hand techniques. I can throw any one of 8 or so throws incredibly well in a competetion level on my right. On my left I have about 3 that are money, others are just experimentation or improve.
In truth, I am more concerned with what works, then it's realm in the technical sense. While it may not be right technically it is working for you.
Watch the PGA, and see how many tour pros have "technically wrong" swings, yet are highly successful, watch the NBA, and see how many guys have technically wrong shooting, but yet manage to make basket after basket.
Watch football, see the incredible variance in release times, delivery, and technique by quarterbacks. Look at a guy like Phil Rivers who probably has one of the ugliest throwing motions out there, yet he is highly successful, and can get the ball to his receivers at the right time and makes millions for it.
The point is, because something might not be "technically" right, but it works for you, it doesn't mean that it is wrong. It works.
Trust me there have been people who have ruined swings, and careers for trying to change their unorthodox methods to something more "technically right" leading them to do something that is awkward and doesn't work for them.
To me this is why there is a HUGE difference between kata and actual technique.
It is very evident in Judo. As you learn the kata version first (standing, opponent going with the throw) and then have to use it in reality (moving, weight shifting, resisting opponent. You have to heavily modify a throw in order to get it work in reality, so while in form and technicality it isn't right, it actually is the most right version of the throw because it is what works in reality.
In the end, that is what matters. Not how well you do the kata, not how pretty the technique looks, but how well you can do it in reality.
Trust me, there are tons of forms champs who wouldn't win the first round of a shiai, or for that matter would last long in a real fight.
I train to be effective, while I think it is important to know the kata version, or technical version as it contains the fundamentals for teaching it. I would rather make my students be more effecient, so when they do something while may look technically correct, I can help them modify it to be more effective, or more devasting, which is more important to me.
I would rather win shiai, and have my students be more effective in a real situation, then I would have them do kata pretty. I think for grading they should be able to perform the kata correctly, since by the time they are grading for a belt they have shown they know how to use a the required techniques in a practical situation.
Sorry great question, and can start a good debate on kata vs. practical application.
