Fitness, Gym and Exercise

Hi everyone, I’m taking taekwondo and had a new instructor today. He said i keep pointing my toes up to kick?

Everytime I try to put it down and concentrate he would tell me to hurry up and then when i did he would say they’re up again. How do I keep my toes down so i don’t break them?

That depends on the kick. If you are trying to front kick using the crown of your foot (the shoe lace part) than point your toes away from yourself. We like to call this kick shoe lacing someone. This kick is for striking the groin area or a horizontal target. Think of a ballet dancer. When striking a vertical target with the front kick pull your toes back and strike with the ball of your foot. Your foot should than be in the shape as if you were standing on your toes. The ball of the foot is the area behind your toes on the bottom of your foot. This is used for board breaking. Of course if you strike a board with your toes they will be mighty sore if not broken.
When doing your stretches extend your toes out , point them away from you as hard as you can and than bring them back and grab your toes over the top and pull. The leg posture of toes extended away from you in this stretch is what your looking fore when Shoe lacing. When striking with the ball of your foot the toes pulled back is the posture for striking vertical target with front kicks. Practice this every chance you get. Some one suggested praticin on a heavy bag. I have all my students do these kicks in slow motion checking detail carefully on the heavy bags untill it is second nature. These are the most relied on kicks in self defence and sparring. Got to get it right.

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