woaw....mind blowing !!!
my english is sure not as good as yours but let me back this up for u.
first of all, i'm don't want to downplay aldo's greatness and acomplishments. he has very very good lowkicks....but only by mma standards .
1-this gif alone summarizes it all.
bad timing, doesn't always judge the distance well, no hips movement, chin up in the air not protecting it with his arms therefore getting countered in the process AND losing power...
these are basics.
i know he can do a lot better with other leg kicking moves. but the thing is he has a few good move, but often relies more on his power, speed and athletic abilities than correct techniques.
these are incomplete technique in my book.
2-in order to have power in your lowkick technique you need to shoot and back your leg as quick as possible. once again a very basic fundamental that aldo doesn't always respect, as i said, by relying too much on his power rather than correct technique.
in this gif he may looks perfect in your eyes but not in my book, here is a perfect exemple
here, a perfect shoot & "back quick"
even cerronne does it better despise the fact he has a lot less power
but to be fair, what works... works !!!
once again aldo has very good kicks but he often has flaws when executing them. i'm not making this up, these are things you see when you know about fundamentals and basics. and that doesn't make aldo less of a great mma kicker but, who still has flaws too when it comes to basics. which is still impressive for a guy who started his mma career with a bjj black belt in his bag.
i remember the times in early 2000's when mma expert were breakingdown wanderlei's "perfect" middlekicks...lol
"Which is exactly what I said...literally exactly what went from my brain to my fingers to my keyboard to this forum. So nice try at trying to be "witty"..next time do better, though."
no you didn't, you were the one implying playing football was one of the reason why he had powerful legkicks. rogan said it first back in the days, since then all american noobs took rogan's hyperbole for granted...shooting a ball and shooting someone's leg are 2 radically differents techniques, not even close .
give me some more of your obvious insightful knowledge of kickboxing, i enjoy it