The first defense is always just to attack, with a kick or shift in and strike.
When someone is going to strike us, their intial step towards us will place them at kicking range. If we time our response properly, we will be attacking the kicking range point, just as they arrive there, but before they launch their kick. Think of this as a 'pre-emptive strike'. It is as if an attacking army arrives to invade our country, and as they mass at one point outside of our borders, to get organised, we bomb that particular spot before they actually attack.
Of course, being human, we often dont launch in time. We may just not realise the situation, we may be hesitant whether the attacker really has bad intentions, or we may just be slow in responding. In these cases we need a method to deal with the kicking attack itself.
We can kick their torso if their kick is not directly towards us, as in a round kick.
Or we can kick the incoming leg, preferably before it gets some speed and momentum.
In any case, the next, late option is that we are stepping or kicking our way in towards a closer range, when our leg makes contact with theirs. If we are stronger, or well past their borders, then we may still just kick them. But if we meet more to our own defensive area, we need to deflect the kick. If this kick is to the waist down area, we use our leg for defense, and usually make contact with our foot or shin area.
In the videos below, we show some of this methods.
pre-empt the kick
pre cursers for kick defenses ( leg sweep defenses)
yap gerk
bong gerk
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