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(More customer reviews)In my opinion the two most useful kicks are the side kick and the front kick. Both are simple, fast techniques. Both can be learned in a short time and used effectively. In military hand-to-hand combat training these are the two kicks most often trained--though the side kick is usually taught as a low kick (below the waist) by military instructors.
Shawn's "Side Kick: Achieving Kicking Excellence Vol. 10" covers everything you need to know about mastering this technique: striking surface of your foot, targets on your opponent, the muscle groups involved and a comprehensive training program that will give you a powerful tool that will come 'naturally' after several hundred hours of training and conditoning. As I said, the two most useful kicks for me are the front kick and the side kick. This is a book on technique, not application--you will achieve master-level technical proficiency and be able to deliver a side kick with either foot from a number of positions through several arcs. Unlike the 'kiss and a promise' military hand-to-hand combat training, Shawn's master-level training program will enable you to kick a taller opponent anywhere on the body from ankle to crown with speed and surprise.
Shawn is working on the applications book. Side Kick, Volume 10 is technique, and you must work on technique before you can apply it. This is the best training program for mastering the side kick. Buy this book, get a large mirror and a video camera and two or three training partners (and a heavy bag and a practice pell) and put in the time. Shawn lists the training aids you need--I forgot the focus pad?
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Side Kick is the tenth volume in the extremely well written and fully illustrated, Achieving Kicking Excellence series of martial arts related books. Side Kick, along with the other nine volumes in the Achieving Kicking Excellence series, goes into intricate detail over all aspects of executing the primary kick, which in this case is the Back Leg Side Kick, and several of its main variations. Starting with a basic anatomical analysis of this kick, you quickly progress to the basic principles associated with the Side Kick, and then you dive right into learning the proper execution of the primary kick, Back Leg Side Kick. Once you have finished with this section, you are taken to the variations chapter which builds upon the primary kick, Back Leg Side Kick, by teaching you 10 of its main variations. From here you are taken to the Training and Practice Methods chapter for a look at some very simple, yet effective methods for adding speed and power to your kicks. Your next chapter takes a question and answer approach to some of the most common problems people have executing the Side Kick and the solutions to correct them. The next chapter in this book deals with a very brief and basic application section for the Side Kick and each of the variations previously detailed in this book.NOTE:The combat/self-defense applications of the Side Kick are discussed and demonstrated in much greater detail in the companion book to this book, Side Kick: Achieving Kicking Excellence; Volume 10, which is Side Kick: Applications in Combat: Achieving Kicking Excellence; Volume 20. This book goes into intricate detail over all aspects of applying the primary kick, which in this case is the Side Kick, and several of its main variations, against twelve of the most common attacks that you are most likely to face in an actual unarmed self-defense/combat situation.At the conclusion of this book you are given a sneak preview of the next ten volumes in the Achieving Kicking Excellence series, which are the Applications in Combat volumes.
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