Land The Front Kick with Icy Mike
It can be hard to land the front kick, or teep, but Icy Mike shows us one of the ways he likes to make it stick
Icy Mike demonstrates how to attack by drawing to land the front kick. The teep is often used as a counter when your opponent is trying to land a shot of their own. Here, Mike gives us one of the many ways to land the push kick and make your opponent pay.
Attack by drawing is a concept from Jeet Kune Do where you get your opponent to make a move. Mike doesn’t like to see this as a counter attack, but as an attack on their mind.
One way to land the front kick through drawing is to have a lot of good head movement and defense so that your opponent throws fewer shots and waits for the moment he can pick a shot. In this case, if you make a jarring stop, he will take his shot when you want him to. As your opponent sends you his punch, that is the moment that you fire in the kick.
The second way, the offense way, is to attack him with punches and as you end your attack, your opponent should look to fill the empty space with his own attack. It is at that moment that you impale him on the front kick. You are looking for the space between the exchanges as the time when you draw your opponent to attack and then land the front kick with finesse and great timing.
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