The concept of "Riding the Hip," was introduced to me at Camp Shotokan this past summer in Carlsbad, CA, by Sensei Nathan Scarano, 6th Dan of the American JKA Karate Association - International (AJKA-I). The idea is to use the forward momentum and direction of the hip thrusting in mae-geri to generate a powerful attack; either follow-through with the mae-geri or as a set up for another technique, typically oi-tsuki.
I've been taking the time since camp to make this technique work for me, and the other day it finally happened! Two effective mae-geri, both times knocking my opponent down. The amount of stopping force created is incredible.
The idea is that when you drive the hip forward at the beginning of the mae-geri, you continue driving off of the back leg past the point of execution, and use the initial momentum generated to initiate forward movement, and the thrust from the back leg to create additional power. The closest comparison is adding a front-leg blitz to a mae-geri. The two videos below will illustrate my point fully.
The first shows Scarano Sensei demonstrating at a training camp in Hungary, this shows how Riding the Hip can be used to create a broken rhythm and set up for a secondary attack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDxokTwsyhM&feature=channel_video_title
This next video, shows the effective use of Riding the Hip when applied strictly to a mae-geri attack. The karate-ka performing the kick is Russell Adderson Senpai, also of the AJKA-I:
Now that I've made it work for me once...time to make it function in competition and everywhere else!
Wish me luck!
I've been taking the time since camp to make this technique work for me, and the other day it finally happened! Two effective mae-geri, both times knocking my opponent down. The amount of stopping force created is incredible.
The idea is that when you drive the hip forward at the beginning of the mae-geri, you continue driving off of the back leg past the point of execution, and use the initial momentum generated to initiate forward movement, and the thrust from the back leg to create additional power. The closest comparison is adding a front-leg blitz to a mae-geri. The two videos below will illustrate my point fully.
The first shows Scarano Sensei demonstrating at a training camp in Hungary, this shows how Riding the Hip can be used to create a broken rhythm and set up for a secondary attack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDxokTwsyhM&feature=channel_video_title
This next video, shows the effective use of Riding the Hip when applied strictly to a mae-geri attack. The karate-ka performing the kick is Russell Adderson Senpai, also of the AJKA-I:
Now that I've made it work for me once...time to make it function in competition and everywhere else!
Wish me luck!
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