This is the most incredible kick that nobody knows. It’s true, and I never see anybody else use this kick. Not in commercial school freestyle, not in tournaments, not even in the MMA.

This kick is as instantaneous as thought, but if I don’t pull it and land it softly, I’m going to break a bunch of my opponent’s ribs. To be truthful, this kick is probably the most powerful kick in all the martial arts. When I use it it always scores, and I mean big time.

The replacement spin side kick is what I call this kick–but I simply refer to it as the Pop Kick. When I use it I turn my back to my opponent, I can’t even see him. Yet, the kick shakes his ribcage every single time.

To make this kick work, you first have to be able to fight out of a horse stance. There is a weakness in this, but it is easily done. Obviously, your body is half closed, and you have turned your side.

So when I set fight out of a horse stance, I make it very temporary. I usually let myself be bullied into turning my body, and thus lulling the opponent. This undoubtedly helps the surprise of the kick when I deliver it.

You’ve got to learn how to switch feet effectively to make this kick work. To practice switching I drop into a horse stance and learn how topop the energy from my tan tien, I envision snapping the fingers in my mind–very important–the actual fact of switching the legs must be just like the snapping of fingers.

Take a stance next a wall, and, when switching the feet, relax, breath easily, and pop the foot so you spin to the rear and land it gently upon the wall. Be totally synchronous, and let one foot land on the wall, and the other foot land on the floor. The trick is to relax and see the kick in your mind–just let the thought of the kick pop.

Do you see what kind of magic we are creating here? By practicing kicking at the speed of thought the kick becomes virtually instantaneous, like the movement of a magicians fingers when he dazzles the crowd. I am helpless in a weak stance, the other fellow is convinced that he’s shutting my body to the side, and whamo jamo,the side kick pops in from the wrong side. The unexpectedness of it all, the instant coordination, the pure strength of the side kick, the sudden drop of the weight, they all combine to make a mofo kick that is a real heart stopper.

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