This is one of the most asked questions in MMA today and with good reasons a good high kick that is executed properly can easily cause a knock out to your opponent. This is one of the reasons why everyone wants to learn how to kick higher. It wont take long for you to see results if you put the work and effort in which to tell you the truth isn’t a lot it is mostly just being dedicated to practice everyday.
Get Hot
So the easiest way to stretch is when your hot and no I don’t mean the attractive kind of hot I mean the after you have just been for a run kind of hot. Now you don’t need to go for a run you could just do a quick sprint even in your backyard a couple of times.
Start off with some Stretches
Now to start off with the splits style stretch until you really start to feel it and you don’t want to go down anymore and hold that for roughly one minute. Then turn to the side and hold it for thirty seconds and turn to the other side and hold onto that for thirty seconds. Now go back to the splits style stretch and hold that for another minute or so this time you should be able to go lower. After this shake your legs out for thirty seconds or so.
Rising Kicks
Now it is time to start doing some rising kicks. Start out doing ten front rising kicks of one leg going as high as you can without injuring yourself then swap legs. Then after you have done that go onto side rising kicks doing ten off each leg then lastly go onto back rising kicks again doing ten off each leg.
Other Tips
Now it is a good idea to do some squats and some one legged squats as sometimes the only reason you can’t kick higher is because your supporting leg isn’t strong enough. Also it is a very good idea to do some core training especially if you want to get those turning kicks and side kicks a lot higher.
Although you will not be finding any sport quite like MMA for quite some time there are still many different Martial Arts that you can learn and you can also fight in usually well tournaments. This is a great way of getting started in MMA because as people always say you have to learn to crawl before you walk basically meaning that you should start out with an easier sport learn all the techniques and then learn and fight in MMA. I am not trying to say that you can not do MM before you have done any other sorts of Martial Arts but it is a very good idea as if you do not know what you are doing in MMA it can potentially be a brutally painful experience.
Tae Kwon Do
Now there are two different types of Tae Kwon Do WTF and ITF. WTF stands for World Tae Kwon Do Federation whereas ITF stands for International Tae Kwon Do Federation. ITF was the original of the two and then the Korean Government made WTF to overtake ITF. Although WTF focuses on foot techniques more than ITF it is considered more of a fitness thing more than a Martial Art. But ITF is considered more of a Martial Art then fitness training. But both are considered quite a weak Martial Art unless you are doing it for many years.
Kung Fu And Wushu
These both originate from China and are quite possibly the oldest Martial Arts ever but they are also the most powerful. They were invented in there early stages up to 4000 years ago for the Chinese army to use. Although there are hundreds of different styles they all branch out from the same tree and have just been changed a little bit along the way. But let me make this clear they are a very serious and strict Martial Art but if you ever get into a fight with someone and if you know Kung Fu or Wushu they better watch out as there will be little stopping you.
Karate
Right you knew it was coming Karate is quite possibly the most well known Martial Art in the world. It originates from Japan and incorporates a little bit of everything from punching, to knife hands (formally known as the Karate Chop), kicking and even thrusting techniques. It helped propel the use of Martial Arts in western films and nowadays it is hard to see a movie without a little bit of Karate included.