Front-Kick

The Front Kick ( jap: Mae - geri, kor: ap chagi ) is a push kick in karate, kickboxing, taekwondo and many other martial arts. It can firstly be converted to body or head of the opponent as an attack technique with the rear leg and the other as a defensive technique to keep an approaching enemy at a distance.

Movement

If you have a front kick as an attack technique, one first pulls up the knee of the back leg. The upper body remains straight or minimally moves in the direction of the knee. It is important that you stiffen the ankle with raising the knee and toes, tense, as if to touch the toes with the instep. Next, you press the attracted catapult-like leg forward and move the upper body backwards at the same in a slight supine position. In the Auftreffphase the kick instep and shin form a line contact point of the kicks is the ball of the foot. After running kick you pull the knee in the same way again in the direction of one's own breast, and sets the leg from controls. As a defensive technique with the anterior pillar of the movement is the same, except that the front kick can be entered with much less power now, what is taken for the benefit of a shorter path and overall faster execution in purchasing.

Risk of injury then carries the front - kick, when the ankle does not stiffen or toes are not tense. An uncontrolled dropping of the leg after the execution of kicks can cause you put coincides with the upper body in an attack of the enemy.

Learnability

Beginners learn the front kick mostly as a first step, as it move more easily to learn and use than, say, the Roundhouse Kick, Axe Kick or Side -Kick.