How to Destroy Your Opponent's Legs Using Low Kicks

The Muay Thai low kick can literally shut down your opponent's legs. Ever get a "dead leg" in high school? Imagine that x100. It shuts down mobility, takes away power in strikes, and can be used to sweep people onto their backs.

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[jonathannguyen]

more like how to destroy your opponents ears with this intro

[paulbadman]

Low kicks for life! Like my coach says, if you wanna cut down the tree, you don't start from the top.

[MISTERPERFECT]

'No single kicks'. God that cannot be stressed enough.

[MatheusLB]

"5 Low Kicks Muay Thai academies don't want you to know. YOU WON'T BELIEVE NUMBER 3"

[Daniel-dcmr]

can you film yourself sparring then analyze the footage? What you were thinking, what you did wrong, what you did good?it would be very informative

[zalamael]

It doesn't take a lot of pressure to hurt the nerves if you aim correctly, so learning the position of the nerves is crucial. Also, prioritising speed over power is usually a better option if you want to hurt the nerves without having your kicks blocked (plus a blocked power kick will hurt you more than it hurts them). And as always, high focus should always be given to turning your hips into the kick for maximum power.

[frybread_]

I stopped watching Top 10 Porn Stars turned Movie Actresses just to watch this!

[MeshaMichaelSavio]

Always incorporated muy-thai when I used to do MMA, it's such a huge advantage to learn all these different arrays of kicks to use in different situations.

[Pahuyuth]

Nice Video. Very clear and understandable! What I have been missing is what actually "destroys" the opponents leg, when using a Low Kick. Such as strikes to the space between the leg muscles, or hitting the muscle attachments and the backside of the knee. Nonetheless I really enjoyed this vid!

[harry]

Connor mcgregor saw this video before ufc202

[bobiewazabi]

Finally a muay thai video!!! Thanks shane, awesome video

[jkdlouisiana]

You're kicking is good, but I noticed at about 0:32 you're hands are positioned wrong. This is crucial to your kicking. You don't want to be side stepped then punched to the ground. When doing the round kick your lead hand (in this case your left) should be cuffed with palm out to cover your face is you turn for the kick. You shouldn't wait till you have already delivered the kick to cover.

[NakMuayify]

Damn the improvements in your technique and teaching are hugely noticeable.

[penatrationgaming]

HOLY SHIT!! the last move looked like some straight up ninja shit

[rusharnmal]

For sports fighting kicks are safer because a lot of the moves that take advantage of a caught leg are illegal to perform.

From my experience, kicks in a street fight are extremely risky especially against aggressive opponents that keep moving in on you. I have more then once intercepted and caught a kick. When that happened it was over for my opponent. Elbow drops on the caught leg can hyper extend or break the leg, or a kick to the inside of the supporting leg can break ankles or hyper extend knees. You can sweep the supporting leg and if you can get your hand under their chin power drive their skull into the concrete. There seems no end to the badness that can be done in that situation.

Once an opponent has your leg to my knowledge there is not a lot you can do. More so being a south paw, I would start fighting as if I was a right handed fighter and switch my stance in my first combo. This usually put my opponent off balance. While rare, it is something you have to watch for because south paws are faster and stronger on that side then you would normally expect increasing the chance that they can catch your kick. Also if your opponent recognizes your fighting style to include a lot of kicks they will be watching for them. In my neighborhood the were muay thai and Karate training facilities so I got very good a reading for an incoming kick, sometimes even opening up to invite the kick so I could catch it.

My advice from several years of on the street, gang fights is don't kick or if you do, keep it low. Strike for the ankles, or the top of the feet, where you can do it very fast at minimal risk of being caught and can be following with a combo, grapple, or body check. Also if you are fighting a south paw watch out for him stepping on you foot. Often when I go in I will step on my opponents foot, surprising and throwing them off balance when they try shuffle or back step. Often it caused opponents to sprain or twist their ankles.

Shane, you have a lot of good advice and examples. Could you go through the risks of having a kick caught and show maneuvers of how to escape or counter when an opponent has successfully grabbed your leg. Street fighters that had their kick get caught were the ones I saw get it the worse in street fights I have witnessed and been part of, and I am wondering how or if they could have avoided what happened to them.

[twoblink]

I can hear Joe Rogan yelling oblique kick!! Slick moves. Thanks for the vid.

[diosdadoapias]

The Muay Thai round kick depend upon the shin bone area as impact point. So the concept is smash your shin bone like a base ball bat. So its impact is very strong. this is also the way of doing roundhouse kick by other martial art style. Muay Thai and other style also uses the back of the foot as impact point and you can see this when they kick on the head. In Karate, the ball of the foot is the impact point for round kick on the head and on the body. This is like smashing the protruding part of a hammer head on the target instead of the flat part (back of the foot) and handle(shin bone area). if you compare this styles, the smashing shin bone and back of the foot appears very strong on impact while the impact of the ball of the foot is weak but truly the force is driven on a small, area the protruding ball of the foot like the protruding hammer head.

[WrightFightConcepts]

This is some REALLY SLICK STUFF! I enjoyed this video.

[kungtony]

Great tips! I remember my kung fu instructore used to say a block is merely another strike. I see your opponent blocking the kick. They could simultaneously block and go for a push kick!

[badjaeaux]

well made vid .. i'll hate another day