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Definitely on of the more powerful weapons in a kickboxers arsenal is his shin kick. The power is generated from the hips as it drives through the target.
This kicking technique is useful when chopping down the legs of your opponents, by attacking their thighs. As your opponent starts to drop his guard, go high with your shin kick as Gabriel Gonzaga demonstrated during his UFC fight against Mirco Crocop
Just take a look at how devastating a shin kick can be. Well known K1 kickboxer and Pride Fighter Mirco Crocop is known worldwide for his devastating leg kicks, who knew that he’d be on the receiving end of this head high shin kick. That’s gonna hurt big time.
The round kick ( front and back variations) is fairly simple and very easy to control. One of the advantages of the round kick is that the round kick is executed, your able to maintain balance to defend a strike from your opponent.
When done correctly, you can inflict lighting fast damage and be ready to counter an attack.
When preformed properly the front kick can be used effectively and efficiently like a boxers jab, keeping the opponent at a distance and setting up follow-up punch-kick combinations.
The front kick has several variations using lead leg front kick, back leg front kick. The following video is a basic overview the back leg front kick.