Would leg weights be useful when practicing kicks?
I don't mean fully throwing kicks with weights on, i'd prefer to keep my knees, but putting them on when doing slow motion kick routines.
Leg weights for kicks
Dominic Gonzalez
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Connor Gutierrez
Pracitice kicks for what? If you want better kicks, become more flexible and loose.
Mason Butler
They are only useful for slow motion high kicks to train actively flexibility. For kicks to the midsection and lower this slow motion routine is useless and thus so are the weights.
Eli Reyes
It's a great way to fuck your knees
Cooper Phillips
>putting them on when doing slow motion kick routines
The "pros" e.g. beijing wushu team doesnt even do this, so I would say you're kind of wasting your time. Unweighted kicks are plenty difficult already
Blake Green
You mean pro dancers right?
Jaxson Lee
Not sure what you're point is, yeah modern wushu is basically a form of dance
Daniel Carter
No, the best way to get stronger kicks is to kick more
Xavier Butler
You fags say that about everything that isn't barbell back squats, and yet most injuries are from squatting...... Hmmmm
Mason Anderson
I say that as an ex-tkdfag with a friend who insisted on training with leg weights and ended up getting knee surgery as a result.
Henry Moore
For mimicking slow kicking I'd imagine that is similar to adding a weight belt to pull ups.
I'm thinking drills like these
youtu.be
You'd probably get better answers on a TKD subreddit
Jacob Ramirez
I used them for acrobatic stuff.
>Put them on, attempt the kick for a week.
>Take them off, holy shit, I can lift my legs now.
For a beginner learning new moves they seem okay. I don't see experienced guys using them, at all.
Austin Cook
fuck, I forgot how grueling tkd is
what an incredible sport
Zachary Taylor
The only acceptables weights!!
GUY SENSEI!!! (Comes running and crying)
Blake Johnson
Is the guy in OP’s pic even wearing them? They look like they were just dragged on top.
Brandon Lopez
first image on google images and from aliexpress, so no.
Hudson James
My legs hurt watching this.
Gavin James
anyone ever see an idiot shadowbox holding dumbbells?
Nicholas Wilson
For the slow exercises in video, they would be great, if you're already decently advanced. It really depends so much on what you're doing. Overall yes they can be useful in a lot of ways but can be very detrimental in others.
Sure but the weight there isn't adding resistance to the actual punching motion it's just putting resistance on the shoulder. It's not the same as a lot of tkd kicks as the ankle weights directly add resistance to the direction that you want to be doing anyway for these kicks
Zachary Hall
there's this guy at the gym who wears those for deadlifts
can anybody explain? he's a strong guy, but the what fuck for
Josiah Myers
protection?