Why is your elbow anywhere near your thigh when checking a low kick?
Do you prefer the elbow on the outside of the thigh or inside of the thigh?
It feels like if my thigh is high enough to touch my elbow then a low kick would fly right under my leg. Also it would mean their kick hits the lower part of my shin rather than the top (if it makes contact at all)Because it's the proper way to check when you are not sure it's a low or middle
Elbow always outside of thigh/knee. If it turns out to be a middle kick, the thigh will help the arm absorb the impact. There is nothing to gain from having it the other way around.
But again, it's for when you are not really sure how high the kick will go, and you raise the check above what you would usually for a low.
I'm certainly not raising my check high enough to touch my elbow for a low kick.
Idk man, sounds like a really easy way to get set up if you're raising your check that high just because you're not sure what's coming.
Ok... so then what do you do? What do you guys teach/are taught to do when a low/mid kick is coming that you are not sure about?
it’s pretty rare that I can’t read someone’s posture and set up to know if they’re throwing a body kick or a leg kick. On the rare chance when you can’t tell/read which one it is then a high check makes sense but doing it for every low kick is suicideOk... so then what do you do? What do you guys teach/are taught to do when a low/mid kick is coming that you are not sure about?
Ok... so then what do you do? What do you guys teach/are taught to do when a low/mid kick is coming that you are not sure about?
On the rare chance when you can’t tell/read which one it is then a high check makes sense but doing it for every low kick is suicide
Block low, catch & sweep if it goes mid.
my guys all have good reads before they spar hard enough for it to matter because we drill vs. low kicks exclusively, then against body kicks exclusively, then have their partner mix them up. We train the eyes along with the body. Once they look good enough in drills they can do timing sparring which further trains their distance and reads.That's all I am saying. Never said to high check the low kicks. Just that some times, it happens to "over react" to a low kick because of reasons, and in that case, it's better to have the elbow outside.
And I know you know, that beginners have no fucking clue what kind of kick is coming. So i prefer to tell them to shell up that side instead of eating it raw to the arm or the ribs.
And it's not just beginners, you can often see top players getting mid kicked while they just "low checked", or even getting KOed with a head kick because they thought it was a mid one coming.
It doesn't happen 10 times in a round, but it does happen...
So i am a bit surprise that you guys here can always predict the kicks... I know i can't but what do I know?
Ideally yes, but often it's a lot easier/faster to just raise your check a bit more than to go for the catch when you are not sure.
maybe this can help clear up confusion in the fusion, but when someone is asking a fairly general question giving answers for specific instances should be clearly stated as for specific instances and not a general answer.That's all I am saying. Never said to high check the low kicks. Just that some times, it happens to "over react" to a low kick because of reasons, and in that case, it's better to have the elbow outside.
And I know you know, that beginners have no fucking clue what kind of kick is coming. So i prefer to tell them to shell up that side instead of eating it raw to the arm or the ribs.
And it's not just beginners, you can often see top players getting mid kicked while they just "low checked", or even getting KOed with a head kick because they thought it was a mid one coming.
It doesn't happen 10 times in a round, but it does happen...
So i am a bit surprise that you guys here can always predict the kicks... I know i can't but what do I know?
Ideally yes, but often it's a lot easier/faster to just raise your check a bit more than to go for the catch when you are not sure.