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With a good Taekwondo turning kick, you can break boards with power. You can show great control and you can score lightning fast points in sparring. It really is the most versatile of the Taekwondo kicks. Your kicking foot comes round in a horizontal arc, so the impact on the target is sideways. Not up or down.

To allow this to happen your top hip has to rotate up and over your bottom hip. And then extend forwards towards the target as your standing foot has to turn.

Your hip flexibility is important if you want to improve your Taekwondo roundhouse kick.

You need flexible muscles around your hip joint. And the hip joint itself needs to be flexible.

Don’t worry about it too much at the beginning. Merely training each week will improve your flexibility.

As your martial arts skills improve and you want to push yourself more,  you can consider hip stretching outside of class to help you to move forwards.

If you don’t turn your standing foot your knee will rotate – something it’s not designed to do…Ouch!

Source:  http://www.taekwondo-information.org/roundhouse-kick.html

Taekwondo

Taekwondo (English pronunciation /ˌtaɪˌkwɒnˈdoʊ/ or (thai-KWAN-doh): also transcribed as Taekwon-Do or Tae Kwon Do) is a Korean martial art with a heavy emphasis on kicks. Taekwondo was developed during the 1940s and 1950s by various Korean martial artists, as a blend of the indigenous Korean fighting styles of taekkyeon, gwonbeop, and subak, with influence from foreign martial arts, such as Karate and Chinese martial arts.

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