People saying this is unpractical: 1. It's not meant to be practical. 2. It's a great skill and it shows that the martial artist is well trained. 3. If you can aim at someone with this kick, who is to say that you can't aim at someone with a basic hook kick? 4. How will you ever improve your other "practical" kicks without advancing in them.

This guy graduated Kyung Hee University and was one of the best kickers, they have 2 teams for competition and demonstration, he belonged to the second.

i love how when he shows how NOT to do it, he still does it very nicely

This is one of the two videos that made me fall in love with Taekwondo

i thought u were full of it, then i looked at ur page, holy shit. i can do that stuff too, but its all on Tekkan.

Just Perfect !!!!

it depends on which one makes you more comfortable, although it would be great to master it with both legs

i love the slow motion and angle u have there :) thx..

THANK YOU!!! I learned this kick because of this video! It took me almost 1 month though.

Beautiful kick!

best 540 tutorial i've ever seen

my best feet is the right one.... but when i watched this, my left has improved.... it can kick asses better than usual.... tnnx for d vid!

This is very elegant kick. I like

best tutorial i've seen

hook kicks are just about one of the most powerful kicks a martial artist has in his or her arsenal..those who think it is not practical can go observe a martial arts class to see this

I never said it wasn't absolute Hell attempting to perform the kick. And, sir, YOU have no business telling me what I can and cannot do. When someone is truly dedicated to performing something, they will try and train until they can perform it. It's been a good nine months, and I've got that spin hook down. You may have many more years of experience than me, so I have no doubt that you could wipe the floor with me, but you have no business judging my capabilities when you haven't seen them.

Straight up people.. Ufc, wec, etc... All got skills frum tae kwon, karate, and etc... So yeah im a martial artist too.. Nice video kick n video man.. Im a blue belt in tae kwon do and i try to learn this kick..

Nice kick^^ Thank you for the slowmotion^^

@harryjpepper its a marital ART. not everything has to be about fighting. kicks like these are meant to be shown in demonstrations and ppl do them for fun.

i love hook kicks! i'm my taekwondo class i always get my friend wit ha reverse hook kick XD he says im too fast and never sees it coming lol.

u make it look so easy tht was amazing! im a second degree blackbelt mastered all the kicks execpt that one tips for left legged person

HACKS THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE. Nah, I'm just Joking. I want to learn how to do this kick, as it's always been of interest to me. I've only been training in Martial Arts for about 4 Months, But I've had about three years of Stamina and Conditioning, so I learned plenty of Techniques pretty quick. I mastered the Tornado Kick in under a week. I'm still not going to try this, though. Hell, I can barely do a 360 Spin Hook, So I am sure I would break my spine if I tried this now. Keep it up!

@danielTrikz in any case we broke roamed the context, the discussion was the name of the kick, and both are correct, because in taekwondo not have the money to be made ​​in the soil and Trickz if available, but the end is the kick it, both names are well within the context of their discipline, the difference is 180 degrees, so as to you call 360, we call 540.

Beautiful... Spectacular...

So tired of everyone hating on taekwondo's flashy kicks. They're obviously not gunna be used in an actual fight but they still show your control and your skill as an martial artist. Taekwondo isn't just fancy impractical kicks so I'd appreciate it if people actually looked into it a bit more before making idiotic assumptions.

I love this kick, wish i could do it!

@poolcueman502 ur right that kicks like these really shouldnt be used in sparring competition. but if u wanted to create an xma form, this kick would serve u well.

thats cool man I respect that and it's a valid answer.

soo... graceful...

glad to see the MMA world have grown so BIG!

damn perfect kicking ... i lurve it !!!

All I can say is WOW,This is TKD

@PatrickTheMOCR quick and simple techniqes are the best

fly kicks is a trademark of tkd d: lol comments

woww so clean! o_O

Well put man!

@sebastianguis who said it must work in real combat, Taekwondo is a revolution of kicking and about flexibility.

Really good kick! It is done nearly perfect! I would give 99 out of 100 points;)

So nice!

@gaffelnskje to answer your last and only question: i do not know how i will set up a kick like this, my body just performs it, because of repeated conditioning i no longer think, my body thinks for itself, so if i throw this kick its because IT WILL hit him because i've been practicing for so long that my body just throws the kicks that it should

@demodome In real fight you can do this kick only before the opponent come to close, so you can use it to do a "one hit ko fight" (with the speed and the power the kick has, if you touch the head of the opponent, he is ko).

maaaan thats pretty awesome

this is the only kick i have to learn that doesn't envolve having to have split flexibility!!! yey!! kung fu master here i come !

@DunkableDave well yes in certain circumstances it has a chance to kill but more often it wouldnt be because it stops the heart but because it breaks ribs that puncture the organs

i just started taekwondo and i can do some impressive kicks like 360 roundhouse and 360 back hook kick but how long will it take for me to be able to do this. im currently a yellow belt

i think that tae kwon do is the most beautiful martial art.

@ssjanime250 fair comment mate, personally i feel the art should still be one of fighting or combat when that element is removed it feels hollow and more like tricks, its like in between parkour and kung fu sounds awsome but in reality it just seems impractical but still i understand safe.

muito show vou treinar esse.

@danielTrikz en todo caso nos salimos arto del contexto, la discusion era del nombre de la patada, y ambas estan correctas, debido que en taekwondo no cuentan el giro que se hace en el suelo y en el trickz si se cuenta, pero al final es la misma patada, ambos nombres estan bien dentro del contexto de su disciplina, la diferencia son 180 grados, asi como a la que ustedes llaman 360, nosotros la llamamos 540.

I think the basics are more important. If you cannot deliver a concrete kick or cannot make 360 jump perfectly, then even if you can do some flashy movement it's basically just for show. Flex and coordination are very important. One who can do good horse stance for 20 min and crane stance with eyes closed for 10 min can probably have the real kicks (or easily learn a real kick)

@demodome, this is true. I have done this kick successfully and paid the price in the finish up when the opponent delivered a roundhouse to my supporting leg causing me to flip 360 degrees to the ground. It was not pleasant to land on your side either. So, forewarning.

that's pretty cool

really pro^^ cool~ i wanna learn it too^^

that was great, thanks

Nice height on this kick!

@Sondrems94 Agree with you in the last sentence. But it is not sad, for me it can be mixed with some street fight moves and it becomes really offensive in any fight.

amazing!

thats why real fighters crosstrain! Also, a good TKD can TKO before it goes to the ground. Thats the nice thing about kicking; you get a shot at it first. Aikido would screw with that first-strike theory though, LOL.

Aghhhhhh So beautiful T_T

My instructor was a Muay Thai kickboxing champion, defended the title 29 times. (Name: Curt Doyle, google it) He thought the same about Capoeira (sp) until a cap fighter took him down.

that was sick.omg :O

Damn. The kick could possibly kill some flies

that could be useful in match, it has great surprise element on it

although unpractical, absolutely badass ;)

@gaffelnskje i take kick boxing too, but i disagree with you how do you know that hes going to throw THAT kick in the first place? you know, these guys break 2 - 4 louis ville sluggers at the same time with a single kick, dont think you might wanna block any kick that guy throws, unless youre surely strong as hell. do you know how much training (intensity also) that is required to obtain a black belt in korea? how to avoid the kick? (if you ever get the chance to predict it) evay it

A good black belt will avoid a fight but will fight if need be. And a black belt does mean something in some cases. In most martial arts today you earn your black belt but you don't deserve it. there are very few martial arts left were you only get your next belt when u deserve it. And I love how the one kid thinks because he is bigger he will beat his dad in a fight. Just because you are bigger than someone doesn't mean u will win a fight against them.

thanxx for the tutorial

That would be rad for fighting birds.

awesome...amazing...cool...nice..good...

@0XxSuzakuchanxX0 hahaha... what classes are you taking?

This is my mission ....i must do it until summer ends :: )

nice ..... CLean...... Clear...!

It may not be practical, but don't mistake that with possible. It can and does work if you train in sparring matches with it, check here on youtube for knockouts with some of the kicks you find impracticable.

its so amazingly fast, if you will do this in a TKD fight i think the other guy would be tottaly suprised by this,

"moltenthoughts" I agree with you as well I think maybe you could pull this kick off only "within the rules of teakondo ring sport" I also believe that every martial art is very nice and it teaches you a lot about your self & it also teaches you respect but there are martial arts that are more effective than other's

@Thydeepestfear You are right, they are only made for esthetic puroposes.

540s may not be practical but they are excellent for coordination, balance, timing and technique. and of course, they are just plain fun :D

they make it look so easy,,,,,,,,

totaly agree

Good video tutorial

yearh my mistake ... sorry.. do you have the link to that korean texted video..? i couldnt seem to find that link...pls.. thanks..:)

i agree with you as well elaborate taekwondo kicks are in very very few situations combat effective combat effective teakondo is cool but something like this is only ever effective within the rules of teakondo ring sport

you're god damn right it does

Too hard to learn it. Unbeliveable skill

i have the same problem with rotation the reason is because you haven't fallen over enough times to find the mid air balance, i haven't because i've got no where soft to train unless i travel to the beach man i really wanna nail this kick

thank you

It's only 180 more of a spin than a tornado kick, so I guess it's not so farfetched if one applies himself to reaching the goal. What I do wonder about is whether that first 180 step on the ground is really crucial for acquiring the necessary spin, cause fight-wise it's an empty move that gives away intention. I can do a tornado without that extra step and consider it bad practice to do otherwise. So I wonder if it's really needed here as well.

very good

@moussleouf Absolutely right. A lot of people seem to miss this. People keep saying to me, ok so you can kick six and a half feet in the air (i'm short btw), so what? That has no use. I say that if I can kick hard and accurate at that height than my kicks mid or low will be that much stronger, faster and all around better. Some theory applies to forms (Kata's) etc. One thing makes other things better.

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hells yeah!

looks flashy but is this kick really effective?

Awesome!! Thanks for sharing:) Grandma mary

sure lets go with that

nice

omg nice man

dammit thats a sexy kick...

he could knock out a giraffe with that kick damn xD

The idea is to mesmerize the opponent into stuidification who will say 'wow this guy is good' and surrender.

heyy thanks mate... I wana practice this shit out.. do some fancy stuffs.. :)