Okay enough chat. When you want to kick high you need strength in your legs and flexibility not only in your legs but also in your hips. Yes I know you think that is absolutely stupid but who's the one who's a dancer.
My explanation is you need strength in your legs because you have just simply rely on flexible legs and hips to do the work, if you just rely on your flexibility because if you did all you do would be able to swing your legs high and not put power into it. Adding to that having flexibility in your legs and your hips can make you kick high, yes you would be able to but without enough strength in your legs you wouldn't be able to. Exercises I recommend are squats and lunges. Simple but effective, yes you could call it a sissy exercise but if you do a lot you will dieeeee.
Okay that's power in your legs covered. Moving on. Hip turnout is also important. The hip is the whole part that allows you to kick right up. It is the bit that controls your legs. If you have a stiff hip but strength and flexibility in your legs you wouldn't be able to kick high EVEN if you actually were able to you wouldn't be able to actually complete one. Exercises I recommend are frog stretch and to tell if your hips are flexible is to see if you can fully push your knees and legs to the ground if your legs and knees are even the slightest bit up in the air it means MORE work to do. Yes I'm going to keep it simple just doing the frog stretch will help infinitely and all you have to do is be able to push yourself slowly to the ground. Just an extra note but dancers have 180 degree hip turnouts that's why they can do splits :P
Lastly you need flexibility in your legs. No more needed to be said unless you don't have common sense. Exercises are just things like touching your toes etc. Mate just look this one up this is just easy.
So there you have it but most importantly you gotta stretch like crazy. One more thing that you MUST listen to is that you can push yourself hard when stretching you can stretch to a point of mild point of irritation but as soon as you feel PAIN you stop. But don't immediately cut off your stretch you could break something you slowly get out of your position and hope that you didn't break. :/
Good Luck!!! :)
Match your stretches to your goals! There are different ways of stretching and they give different results. I recommend Stretching Scientifically by Thomas Kurz as a very accessible introduction to this concept, and to different stretches for different goals.
Basically you can't rely solely on 'static' stetches like the splits to develop 'dynamic' flexibility. To kick higher... KICK higher!
- warm up properly before stretching
- use the specific motions you are trying to improve (legs swings and then actual kicking)
- do your static stretches AFTER exercise
- stretch every day if you want to see real results
By raising your leg higher.
Stretching is your friend.
stretch more and practice i'm gonna be starting my first taekwondo class soon on monday i am kinda scared and excited my first martial art the p;ace is www.blackbeltny.com if you wanna see its website
Put a few books under your feet.
Be more flexible...?
Look up for TKD stretches.
