Stop hit/kick?

[keeshen1]

Anyone ever tried to stop kick your opponent attack? Similar to the Jeet Kune Do stop hit theory. For example, I sparred with a guy last night and he roundhouse kick me. I push kicked the thigh of his kicking leg with my front leg before he can land the kick on me.

It worked pretty good for me. Anyone ever tried it?

 

[Sweet Lew]

Damn it I watched a UFC fight just the other day where I think Rich Franklin fought a Japanese guy who tried to block punches with punches.

Needless to say this only earned him the glory of getting knocked the fuck out.

 

[Endo]

I think it can work to an extent. I still wouldn't recommend trying to block every strike like that. I think it would be just as, if not more, effective to kick the opposite leg that is supporting their weight. Leg under stress + more stress = fucked up leg.

 

[DrBdan]

At my gym we practice that same move, push-kicking their thigh when they start to kick. You have to be quick but it's fairly effective.

 

[panamaican]

If you're faster than he is or have his tells down, it's a solid technique. If you start relying on it too much, expect your opponent to vary his timing and/or include more feints to draw you out.

 

[dr.feelgood]

At my gym we practice that same move, push-kicking their thigh when they start to kick. You have to be quick but it's fairly effective.

We do this too. If you hit it in the right spot at the right time it is devastating. You can fuck up someone's hip extenders(or whatever the fuck they're called) really bad with that.

 

[spartanMMAn]

i used to like this move but never to the kicking leg always to the supporting leg or body or very rarley to the head.

 

[bjjaz]

It is tough to time correctly I think.

 

[thirteen]

I don't push kick the thigh of the kicking leg.
I push kick the upper-inside of the support leg.

 

[ambertch]

The problem with this technique is that it's hard to do in practice against a skilled/experienced person. Nobody skilled is going to attack you unless he senses you are not going to counter.

If he sees you are ready for him, he's only going to attack based on timing. For example say you check his thigh, or check a kick with your lead leg. Your skilled opponent will watch your footwork and see when you put weight on your lead leg (for example when you take a step. At this point he knows you will not be able to lift that leg up in time if he attacks.

THAT's what skilled fighting is about.


This is why in the real world of world class boxing and muay thai, you never see trapping, or this stop hitting taking place. It just doesn't work when two opponents of similar skill levels meet eachother and are constantly thinking in their brain about how the other person is going to react. This is one of those "work on people not as good as you" techniques.


I'm not discrediting the technique for self defense or JKD of course, I'm sure in self defense scenarios there are plenty of times a martial artist will face a less skilled opponent, and can pull moves like this off.

 

[CFMC04]

Stop kicks are seldom used but if used properly they are very effective. You just don't want to over use them because as has been said, you opponant will eventually time you and set you up with feints.

 

[keeshen1]

I'm not saying use it ALL the time. But if you use it just once or twice before your opponent kicks you, you can really fuck up their leg that way.