Side Kick Go Myroom

Since we focused on the side heel pretty extensively during the last week before break, I’ve been focusing on it and workshopping it a lot during break week. As far as kicks go, this is probably my least used of the primary three, so I think it’s important for me to really focus on it this way. 

One of my biggest “developments” in my side heel over the last decade, in my opinion, was the reduction of “phases” experienced in the side heel from 7 to 5. Initially, when walking through it step-by-step, I would go bow-crane-chamber-kick-chamber-crane-bow. At this point, the chamber was its own phase in the kick and took a lot of time to execute (relatively speaking). 

Now, I’ve mananged to turn the chamber into sort of a transition? I think? As in, instead of aiming to directly execute the chamber as a phase, I implement right at the start of the actual kick, so it sort of exists in-between phases. That was sort of just happening, and then I realized “what am I thinking when I do this?”. 

You know when you push reaaaaally hard on a skittle, and it shoots out and goes mrryoooooom across the room? I think that’s what’s happening. From my crane stance, the opening of my hips allows me to drive my kicking hip/knee down, and my foot goes mryooom. And ta-da! That’s my side heel. 

I think this has allowed me to focus on more of my harmonies, instead of tunnelvisioning on my foot. Like, initially, I was focusing simply on getting the kick out by going through the multitude of steps and it didn’t matter HOW I did it, all that mattered was the heel was out and the toes were down and the bag was rockin. Focusing on the mechanics behind the mryoom has let me see the slightly bigger picture. 

Numbers (per last 7)

Pushups 

40-200-20-100-80-144-80

Sit-ups

60-160-40-100-100-140-60

AOK

5 daily

KM (total last 7)

18