Krav Maga - Switch Kicks (Reason and Training Tips)

This video covers the following: 1. Reasons why Switch Kicks are taught in Krav Maga. 2. How Switch Kicks compare to similar movements with boxing or punching. 3. Training and sparring tips for Switch Kicks. Additional videos and information about our self defense, fighting, and fitness programs are available at http://www.kravmagatraining.com/ The videos on this YouTube channel are NOT a replacement for actual instruction. They do not teach techniques, but instead isolate and fix problems within the technique or its individual components. The videos are designed to help the student who has already learned the technique under the instruction of a qualified instructor. Important Note: These videos are specific to the techniques and curriculum taught to the students at our facility. Students from other Krav Maga schools and organizations are more than welcome to watch and use these videos and we hope they find them useful! However, variations may be taught that are different from the techniques taught at other Krav Maga locations. This doesn't mean one variation is wrong or the other is right. They are just variations...plain and simple. The most important question for any technique or defense should be this: Does it work for the individual who is performing it? As long as it does, then the technique or variation has merit, regardless of where it comes from! That's the number one principle that we emphasize at our school. Transcript: "This is Randall with KravMagaTraining.com. In this video we're going to cover some, a few tips to help you out with your switch kicks. Now before I actually get in to the tips, I want to explain why Krav Maga even does switch kicks in the first place. I'm sure that if you're not super familiar with Krav Maga, you see these switch kicks and you're probably thinking "What the hell! I thought Krav Maga was supposed to be a practical system based off of street fighting, you know. It's not supposed to be some flashy, crappy, jumping around type of stuff. So why the hell are you jumping around doing these double kicks and what not?". Alright, so let me address that first. First of all, switch kicks are in our Level 5 curriculum, which means Brown Belt and above material. So it's for students who've been training a long time. Who already know all the basic kicks: Front, side, round, and a few spin kicks and things like that. So we need to teach them something that's going to keep them challenged. So it's just really good to keep them challenged. Help them out with their coordination. It's also good for conditioning too. You start rattling off lots of switch kicks your heart rate goes up really high. So it's great for conditioning. To me, for those of you familiar with boxing, it's like the equivalent of doing a little shoeshine action. So if you guys don't know what that means, shoeshine is throwing a lot of uppercuts real close and maybe finishing with a hook. Well to me, this is like the equivalent of the shoeshine, but for the lower body. So it's mostly for advanced students just to keep them challenged. But it's also good for them to know how to do it in case they are sparring or fighting someone who has a previous martial arts background, such as say a Tae Kwon Do person, who does throw these kicks on them. If they're sparring them and they've never seen these kicks coming up at them, they're going "Whoa, what the hell is this guy doing?" Even though that might not be one of the kicks they like to use when they spar, at least they're familiar with it and they see someone using it on them they will be more apt to defend against it. So that's the reason why we teach switch kicks. And like I said, it's mostly for advanced students. Okay, anyways, now that we've covered that let me actually address a few tips that will help out..." Krav Maga Worldwide Official Training Center - Self Defense * Fighting * Fitness - Pompano Beach, FL (South Florida).