Spinning Kick Defense & Counters | Full Contact Karate

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saikounanoda/ Looking around the internet, there's a lot of martial artists who are inexperienced at dealing with spinning techniques. Many styles don't practice them a lot, which leads to practitioners making incorrect speculations on how they would effectively counter or defend these kicks. One of the most common things you see is "just close the distance", which is - in fact - one of the worst strategies you can use against somebody who is proficient at spinning kicks. In Kyokushin Karate, these kicks are used a lot, and there is an established method for dealing with them, which we show in this video. This will be effective in a variety of other scenarios as well, including Kickboxing, Muay Thai, MMA. We also explain WHY the other commonly thought methods are bad. If you liked it, please subscribe!