TMA'ers will love this!!

damo

This is a one in a million lucky headkick in my opinion but it looks cool!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQrfhzh90VA

Dragan

Not sure if i would call it lucky, he set the expectation for a low shot with a few low kicks before that ( the guy obviously thought it would go low as you could his hands dropping ) and he had him coming forward, so unlikely the guy would change directions in time and the point of guard would end up coming past the point her was aiming for, which was subsequently filled by the other guys head.

All in all, a good kick if you ask me.

mark.leonard

I agree with Dragan, there wasn't anything lucky about it tbh. He set it up with a low back kick right beforehand which they guy was expecting that time around - WRONG!

Tim_Murphy

sweet kick!

LAAngel

Great kick, you could see the power put behind it, and he set it up really well

Vegeta

dam youtube is banned from work

PiZaRR-0

Nothing lucky about that. He set it up perfectly. Also why was that such a big deal for TMA'ers? just because its "flashy"?

Ger Healy

Right on the button sweet

Boru.

Great Kick. Bill Superfoot Wallace taught this utilising the sidekick as a launching pad at one of his seminars tha I attended. He based it primarily on tagging four positions. front and back mid level, front and back head level. What he advised was to set up a cadence and rhythm that you opponent would follow. Then launch a real attack once the physcological tendancy to react as you wanted had been established. I fought him twice and on both occasions I went to block the mid level kick I was sure was coming as he moved in, only to wake up after. Great stuff.

Iss hogai

damo

Also why was that such a big deal for TMA'ers? just because its "flashy"?

Bingo!!

Only joking thats a sweet kick no matter what your background is.

Maybe im not best qualified to judge whether or not it was a lucky kick (my stand up experience is a mighty 2 weeks Muay Thai!!), but it is one in a million that a kick like that lands and ko's someone i reckon...

Baggio...

Very nice...
Credit where credit is due.

droc

The sweetest thing about the kick is the background. This was their second time fighting, the first time Leko KO'd Hari and spat on him after... Revenge is sweet!

GalwayorBust

It always helps when your opponent drops his hands right before his heal connects with the side of your head. Nice kick, crappy defense.:eek:

Miles Long

You're right, I do love that one... *licks finger chalks up one*:D

TapouT

damo wrote:

but it is one in a million that a kick like that lands and ko's someone i reckon...

Wrong again.

http://www.filecabi.net/video/kickme7.html

Musashi

Damo wrote:

This is a one in a million lucky headkick

And I bet the more he practised it the luckier he got with it!

Let's not forget the success Kurt has had in competition with the same kick

http://users.telenet.be/CAPOKURT/

RealJohn

TapouT wrote:

Wrong again.

http://www.filecabi.net/video/kickme7.html

In fairness to damo, I think he was referring more to fights where people actually guard themselves a little. I think we all know that kicks like that can theoretically knock people out but in something like kickboxing, K1 or MMA, it's a low percentage shot (though I imagine better than one in a million).

Regardless, it makes me want to go back to practicing spinning kicks.:D

Dragan

At the risk of seeming very pedantic, I imagine that if you take the ammount of times such a kick is thrown in a competitive fight versus other forms of striking then the ratio of a kick like that being thrown and ending a fight would be far higher than say, a left hook or right cross ending a fight.

RedRaven

damo wrote:

This is a one in a million lucky headkick in my opinion but it looks cool!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQrfhzh90VA

Thats not luck mate thats confidence in your abilities...I saw him (Hari) fight in K1 Oceania 2006 and you can see the confidence he has with his legs...but ironically he got caught with virtually the same kick from an aussie and got KO'D TO F*UCK!!!!

Vegeta

in fairness that was class, it looks so so painful, i'd hate to be on the end of one of those

i once caught a guy in training with an over zealous roundhouse kick(for training anyway), I was wearing foot pads and he was wearing a head guard but he still had to sit down for ages afterwards. I cant even imagine what it would be like with no protection what so ever

Roper

What the hell was "TMA" about that?

When you've got the base in the dark arts, you can add on the cool stuff like that and get your money shots!!!:D