Topic: 540 kick

[Thomas Edwards]

okay, i'm trying to learn this trick, and i can't get past the tornado kick.  (540 kick landed on the non-kicking leg, so a short version)

i just can't get around before my non-kicking leg hits the ground.  anybody have any good tips for landing this move?

[Unique]

Pull your non-kicking leg back you can tell if you did it right when you feel a slight pain in your groin area but you'll get used to that!

[Thomas Edwards]

Pull your non-kicking leg back you can tell if you did it right when you feel a slight pain in your groin area but you'll get used to that!

GOT IT! and you're right...after doing nearly 20 of them i do have a pain in that area....weak sauce

[JumpOff]

Oh yeah....youll feel that pain for a few weeks....its a muscle not commonly used, until you start doing kicks like the 540....

rest where needed, and practice when you can.

Remember that you can do a 540 both as an outside crecent, or as a roundhouse.

The difference is that with a outside crecent, the kick(with the kick leg) is more floaty, making a crecent shape as you kick around...meaning that your leg stays straight, and you use it sort of as a dead weight to bring yourself around.

The roundhouse is where you chamber your kicking leg, to 'kick' yourself around.

[Thomas Edwards]

the difference between those two kicks that i'd learned in martial arts was that a roundhouse comes more straight, while the crescent chambers, then circles around in a crescent...

my sifu wants me to learn a 540 but kicking with both legs...so there would be two kicks in mid-air.  i asked him why (we normally don't do any tricking/wushu).  he said, "for fun" 

[JumpOff]

You mean a double leg?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNSS13mXk-Q

[Thomas Edwards]

no...a double leg the legs come in one slice i think (that's what i saw in the vid...)

what i'm talking about is on the takeoff when you're rotating backwards, you throw the left leg out instead of just keeping it tucked (as you take off), and then do the rest of the 540 kick...the kicks would be separate.

[JumpOff]

Well, in that case, it would just be a straight leg 540...not to much special other than the 540...

now if you threw an extra hok at the end of the 540, it would be a jacknife