Muay Thai

[Ferox13]

I'm sure you've all seen the video of fight, and one guys does this low kick into the otherguys shin, and snaps it, and the guy falls, while his shin folds in on itself?

Actually, it was the other way around. The guy throwing the kick had his leg snapp. The other guy checked it (lift the knee and turn the shin out) but in the end u are right the power of the guys kick snapped his own shin bone.

Both Muai Thai and Kyokushin Karate are infamous for their low kicks. They are devastating - in my opinion its these that make it a far different game from American Kick Boxing and no the use of Elbows/Clinch/knees. Its very hard to defend against them if you.ve never done so before.

Being knocked out by them is the most painful thing to watch too - they stiffed the leg making it harder to check future kicks - they slow your movement and abilty to twist your body to punch and kick.

What happens alot is that the person being leg kicked tends to drop the hands to protect the leg - at that stage the atatcker often switches levels and goes for the head. So low kicks are are a great way to set up head shots.

They can be pretty effective in MMA too - The Ruas/Varleans fight is always the one that springs to mind and most recently Forrest fucked up Ramages lead leg with low kicks..