Olympic Taekwondo Spinning Hook Kick

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Jonathan Reff is personal training director at Somafit, an upscale fitness studio and spa, as well as owner of Jonathan Reff Personal Training. Through Jonathan Reff Personal Training, Jonathan brings personal training and gym design to your home.

Jonathan has been personal training in New York and the Washington D.C. area for over ten years. Jonathan holds certificatons from N.A.S.M. (National Academy of Sports Medicine) as well as A.C.E. (American Council on Exercise). In addition, Jonathan holds a second degree black belt in Olympic Taekwondo, a martial art in which he was nationally ranked at one point. Jonathan has worked with elite level to novice in both fitness and Olympic Taekwondo.

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Olympic Taekwondo Spinning Hook Kick

In this video Taekwondo expert Jonathan Reff demonstrates the basics of Taekwondo including several kicks, blocks and punches.

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Jonathan Reff: Hi! Jonathan again; we are here at Somafit learning about Olympic Taekwondo. The next technique we are going over the Spinning Hook Kick. The spinning hook kick, again, I am going to start with in fighting stance with my right leg behind me. My target here for the most part is the upper body being the collarbone and the head in. The target area on the head could be the temple or the chin. Again, this is a knockout kick or knockout technique. So, I am facing my opponent; I am going to then very quickly rotate on the balls of my feet. Now, the Spinning Hook Kick, being that it's named spinning, is a circular kick. So as I rotate on the balls of my feet, I am thinking about rotating in a small circle, but again a very tight one, so that my legs stay close to the body, which I have gone over before as being characteristic of Olympic Taekwondo and that's what makes these kicks so powerful and deceptive.

So I am rotating; as I am rotating, I am going to use a momentum of my, in this case, right elbow to pull me all the way around as my knee is raised of my right leg again because I am kicking with my right leg. I am going to then shoot my leg out, come around, hit the target and spin again a 180 to start from where I began from. That's the Spinning Hook Kick. Coming up next will be punching techniques and blocks.

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