> What does checking the kick mean in ufc fights?

What does checking the kick mean in ufc fights?

Posted at: 2015-05-07 
Same thing it means in Muay Thai and kickboxing fights. A "check" involves raising the leg and using the shin to block an incoming kick. It's best utilized against kicks aimed at the legs, but can be used, if you're flexible enough, against kicks to the lower torso.



It is a way to reduce and spread the impact of low kicks.

Sometimes if you kick with your shins, your leg breaks.

Blocking an opponents leg kick with the knee or shin.

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its when a fighter knows that his opponent is going to leg kick them so they make them kick their knee rather than the thigh. doing this hurts the opponent and possibly injures them as you saw in the Weidman Silva fight.