Welcome to How to Do Stretch Kicking for Tang Soo Do. I'm Chris Rockhold at Rockhold Karate. Today I'm going to do a walkthrough of five stretch kick techniques. The first stretch kick will be front stretch kick. Second one will be back stretch kick. Third one will be side stretch kick. Fourth one will be inside-outside stretch kick. And the fifth one will be outside-inside stretch kick. With these five kicks, this should help loosen up your legs, your hip sockets, and all the muscles in the lower extremities. So let's get set up.
"How to" do Stretch Kicking for Tang Soo Do (Korean Karate). These low-impact stretch kicking techniques will help your flexibility and your regular kicking techniques. This is a transcript of the video below.
First one will be the front stretch kick. So I'm going to step back so my feet are apart. I'm in a fighting stance. Want to keep my legs straight. So as I'm doing this kick, I'm going to throw my left leg up. I'm going to keep it straight the whole time. So the idea is to get higher each kick I do. I don't want to overdo it and pull my hamstring. That would be terrible, and it's going to set you back quite a bit. So I'll just come up, pulling up, and bring it up high as you can. So I'm going to tilt this at an angle here so you can see. Come up. Try to keep the posture up. You want your shoulders to try to stay over your hips. Try not to lean in too much. That's something you just got to fight. Next one I'm going to do is the other side. So I'm going to step back the other way. My right foot's back now, and I'm going to bring it up. Do that a couple times. There you go. Tilt off to the side here so you can see this way. Try to keep your posture upright. Good. Okay. Pretty simple.
Next one we're going to do is the back stretch kick. So I'm going to turn this way so you can see how this is executed. Again, I'm just going to separate my feet. And from here I'm going to lift my back leg straight up. I want to keep my toes pointed down and the shoulders over my hips as much as possible, I am going to lean forward. That is normal. You just don't want to lay yourself flat. That's counterproductive. So here, I'm just going to lift. There you go. Okay. It's not going to go too high unless you're lucky to be one of the super flexible people. I am not. All right. So here again on the other side. I'm going to keep this leg straight, toes forward, and lift. Okay. So if you can't go real high, that's fine. You got to start somewhere. Build up slowly. Don't pull any muscles. The whole point of this is to not injure yourself.
So the next one is going to be side stretch kick. So I'm going to do it on the right side. So we'll just lift straight up. Again, I want to try to stay upright as much as possible. I also want to keep my toes pointed straight ahead. I don't want to let my toes roll out, otherwise you're doing basically like a front stretch again. So I'm going to be hitting the inside of my leg with this particular stretch, and other parts of my body as well. Hip socket. There you go. Let's get the other side. Go to the left. Keep the toes straight towards the front.
The next one is going to be an inside-outside stretch kick. So I'm going to go really wide, as much as I can, to really help loosen up that ball socket in your hip. So I'm going to come across. I'm going to angle my foot out a little bit to help me out with this. Open really big. I'm going to come up and out wide. Up and out wide. Switch to the other side. And out and up wide. Real big. Again, you want to stay upright as much as possible as you're doing these kicks.
The next one will be out to in. So I'm going to try to swing out as much as I can from the outside and come forward. So again, it's the exact opposite of what we just did. So I'm going to go big as I can. Okay. I'm going to switch feet and do the other side. Big. Come around. Big. Come all the way around.
And that is stretch kicking for Tang Soo Do. Today I covered five different stretch kicks. First one was front stretch kick. Second one was back stretch kick. Third one was side stretch kick. And then the other two bonus ones were inside-outside kick was the fourth, and outside-in was the fifth kick stretching wise. So just do those best you can. Start low. Work your way up slowly. Build up. Get that flexibility going. And don't pull anything. So work harder and smarter as you do these. Until the next video, keep sharpening your mind, your body, and your character. Take it easy.
