Curl Kick

I like to think of the curl kick as a distant cousin to the backfist.  The backfist is designed, in part, to sneak around a partner’s frontal guard – to get a strike to the side of the head when someone is doing a good job of keeping their hands up.  The curl kick is designed, in part, to sneak around a partner’s leg – to get in a strike to the groin when someone is doing a good job of closing the straight path of a groin kick.

My thoughts on the kick shouldn’t limit people’s experimenting with it though, I’ve seen it used to kick to the head, the knees and the ankle.

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