Jon Jones vs. leg kicks

[Steve08]

Is there a certain way to check leg kicks (foot or shin)?

The best way to not get kicked is to merely step backward or to the side as your opponent comes in on you, but yes, the most common way to check kicks is to simply raise your leg and make their kick connect with your shin. This is a kickboxing technique not often seen in MMA, which is weird because if a guy kicks hard and connects with your shin badly, he will break his foot... which is exactly what happened to Aldo in his fight against the Korean Zombie, in fact.

However, you can also raise it very slightly so that they kick the point of your knee, which allowed the always wily Ernesto Hoost to break Ray Sefo's shin and claim his fourth K-1 Grand Prix belt :icon_twis

It should be noted that becoming overly enthusiastic towards defending low kicks can leave one vulnerable though, as you have to stand on one leg and temporarily be incapable of doing anything other than defend. As an example, K-1 legend Jerome Le Banner once used the threat of his right low kick (which he established throughout their bout) to draw kyokushin karate master Francisco Filho into checking, with a feint... only to then bomb him into unconsciousness with a MASSIVE straight left hand.

 

[OldManGrip]

yeah that's what shogun was supposed to do

kick jones' chicken legs

turned out great

shogun can't throw leg kicks anymore after lyoto2. He snapped his acl/knee worse than any of of his previous injuries, so now both legs are duds. If he had the same leg kicks as he did against machida, i could see him doing damage

 

[OldManGrip]

Pat Barry is like 5'10 lol.

what does that have to do with powerful leg kicks lol, you could be 5'7 and have powerful leg kicks... aldo.. Are you trying to tell me melvin manhoef at 5'8 has weak leg kicks bc of his height smh.

 

[Dart Feld]

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Is there a certain way to check leg kicks (foot or shin)?

Shin of course.

 

[flanellograf]

The best way to not get kicked is to merely step backward or to the side as your opponent comes in on you, but yes, the most common way to check kicks is to simply raise your leg and make their kick connect with your shin. This is a kickboxing technique not often seen in MMA, which is weird because if a guy kicks hard and connects with your shin badly, he will break his foot... which is exactly what happened to Aldo in his fight against the Korean Zombie, in fact.

However, you can also raise it very slightly so that they kick the point of your knee, which allowed the always wily Ernesto Hoost to break Ray Sefo's shin and claim his fourth K-1 Grand Prix belt :icon_twis

It should be noted that becoming overly enthusiastic towards defending low kicks can leave one vulnerable though, as you have to stand on one leg and temporarily be incapable of doing anything other than defend. As an example, K-1 legend Jerome Le Banner once used the threat of his right low kick (which he established throughout their bout) to draw kyokushin karate master Francisco Filho into checking, with a feint... only to then bomb him into unconsciousness with a MASSIVE straight left hand.

Exactly, you want the guy to connect to the high part of your shin or even knee, with your thigh almost perpendicular to his shin. Then he is basically kicking concrete, and is likely to break his foot/shin. If he connects to the same part of your shin that he is kicking with, it's still going to hurt him, but it's going to hurt you almost as much.
It's obviously more problematic in mma, since it sacrifices your mobility and balance.

 

[mihailovich]

Korean Zombie checked one Aldo leg kick and it hurt his foot... It's not that simple

And when Rich got sloppy against Cung...

Damn, son. Made me realize how much I wanna see Cung fight again.

 

[flanellograf]

The problem there is mainly that they didn't set the kick up. It should have come after a combo so that Jones arms weren't in a position to grab the leg.
Still, obviously risky to do against Mr Fantastic.

 

[JoseAldoKillaBe]

Even Rampage threw him out of balance with a leg kick. Too bad he was too slow to follow it up with anything.

 

[thatone**]

Jones has faced the best strikers in the world, he doesnt get leg kicked often because it aint that easy to do so and not get your ass kicked.

 

[thatone**]

Yup!

Jones HATES inside leg kicks, and Rampage was the first to uncover that, but just stood in front of him afterward even though he'd literally punted Jones's leg completely out of stance. What a strange world this is...

For those who are unaware, while there's nothing quite as beautiful as a crisp, chopping outside leg kick, inside leg kicks are much harder to catch, and will usually force an opponent to halt in his tracks and reset himself as they break one's stance since because they move the leg outward, especially if you stand as heavy on your front leg as Jones did when he fought Rampage (though he has adopted a more upright, kicking-centric one in recent times).

you dont know WTF are talking about, but you will fool the kiddies.