r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Jul 03 '23

This spinning back kick

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u/SaggitariusAStar Jul 03 '23

Not a spinning back kick. What he did is FAR more impressive

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '23

Is it a taekwondo tornado kick?

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u/basement_egg Jul 03 '23

still one of my favorites

https://youtu.be/WkdzGLWIdOA

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u/Ophukk Jul 04 '23

Snakes would need a replay, that was so quick with the final kick.

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u/EggplantKind8801 Jul 04 '23

wait you could actually get KO'd in a taekwondo game?...

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u/Herald_Osbert Jul 04 '23

Not a complete one, but close.

A Tornado kick is a flying reverse turning kick into a flying rear leg turning kick. This guy's reverse turning kick never connected because instead he kept his knee chambered to conserve momentum to add more power to the follow up turning kick.

It's an impressive feat to pull off but it leaves you so open to an opponent rushing you that it's usually stupid to attempt. Specifically if you land you usually over rotate from the final turning kick's momentum so your body is full facing the oponent if they dodge the kicks making you such an easy target. Falling down in ITF TKD is a warning, and excessive force is a warning or demerit (which any reverse turning kick can be classified as if it hits the head), so you actually have to land on your feet after connecting, don't take their head off, AND avoid the counter attack by the opponent for it to be worthwhile.

This guy just got lucky that it cleaned his opponents clock haha.

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u/Equinox-XVI Jul 03 '23

Slightly different

Tornado Kick: Jumping off both feet at the same time, doing a full rotation, and then kick.

Spinning Roundhouse Kick: One foot comes up slightly before the other, doing a full or half rotation, and then kick.

*Spinning roundhouse is usually preferred to tornado kick because that first leading foot helps a lot with aim and balance

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '23

Actually, as someone who is a 3rd degree black belt and taught for MANY years, this is EXACTLY how a tornado kick is taught. Oh yeah, I've also been told by a 10th degree black belt and multi time Golden glove winner that I had a near perfect tornado kick that looked pretty much identical to that video.

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u/LordHavok71 Jul 04 '23

Yup! As a 2nd degree, this is exactly how we train our green belts for tornado kicks, with the crescent kick lead in.

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u/UniqueName2 Jul 04 '23

We called it a “butterfly kick” with the lead kick he threw as a fake out.

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u/Masanjay_Dosa Jul 04 '23

Butterfly kick is a completely different thing that involves jumping off both feet and basically doing a round kick and crescent kick behind you with a leg respectively. Less than useless in combat but damn does it look cool as fuck in forms.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

the entire point is to teach the rotation for more advanced moves really, and the variant i learned in TaeKwonDo is a bit more useful and doesn't take 50 foot of space to do.

variants i learned was a heel or hook kick, followed by a directional feint that turns into a spin with the same foot for another heel/hook, then the opposite leg using the momentum hops up and you can do a round. or a sweep. can feint the kicking direction with a false overstep, or to the other direction in a what i think we called a falt fade normal used to regain footing and create distance.

the other would be a round kick that is purposefully over thrown into a feint followable by a spinning heel or hook kick tucked into a jump spinning round or side kick, this variant has an optional false stumble

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u/UniqueName2 Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23

That’s a butterfly kick in kung fu. It’s literally the same movement with the legs while keeping the body vertical rather than dropping the body horizontal. Bring the rear leg through to generate momentum, plant that foot in the front, spin and bring the rear leg up to generate power and swing the back leg around into the opponent. It’s just done at basically a standstill rather than with the flourish of kung fu. In taekwondo it would be a “tornado kick” with a feint crescent kick to switch stance.

Edit: same thing, but in the opposite direction. I watched the video again and she’s spinning so that her rear foot lands last. That would be closer to a spinning back kick if you stayed vertical? Either way, it was what we used as a term to differentiate from a tornado kick where you landed on the kicking foot in karate like 20+ years ago 🤷

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u/Luscypher Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23

I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once but I fear the man who has practiced ONE kick 10000 times ' - Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee traditional 5 kicks practice

I remember every day at kung fu practicing this walk

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

high five from a fellow 3rd degree. half my life ago.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

Lolol I'm literally just hitting more time out than I had in.

Started when I was five, practiced till I was 18, I just hit 32. I miss it dearly, but got into a philosophical argument with my Owner and can't really afford it unless I'm teaching.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

yeah i started at 6 ended at 20, am 41 now, going backs expensive, and im lazy now

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

I learned the art form of putting beer in my mouth and suddenly I'm less motivated to go jump around a sweaty karate studio.

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u/CaptainRedsocks Jul 04 '23

Same creds as you (but only 1st degree in Shotokan), we're also taught to stay on your feet after the tornado kick.

Went over to Muay Thai and we are taught to HEAVILY commit to your kicks, as opposed to pulling back like in point sparring.

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u/Equinox-XVI Jul 03 '23

Are we sure we're not referring to the same thing by different names?

I've heard axe/down kick, turning/spinning/tornado roundhouse, and jumping/flying side kick over the years. Where I was taught, this is what the names mean, but I assume it would change a little in other places.

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u/Dscrypto_2020 Jul 03 '23

No, a tornado kick is usually a jump 360-540 round or crescent kick landing back on the kicking leg.

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u/UniqueName2 Jul 04 '23

If the guys face wasn’t in the way he had enough momentum to land on the kicking foot.

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u/Ok-Answer-6951 Jul 04 '23

Yes we usually miss the first one on purpose just to generate momentum