Billingham - Spinning Kicks for Beginners: The Kicking Series PT2 – Martial Arts for Beginners

Martial Arts for Beginners

The Kicking Series

Part 2 -- The Spinning Kicks

By Justyn Billingham

Dedicated to all my students

Copyright 2015 Justyn Billingham

All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical without permission in writing from the author.

Disclaimer

Please note that the author of this book is not responsible in any manner whatsoever for any damage or injury of any kind that may result from practicing, or applying , the principles, ideas, techniques and/or following the instructions/information described in this book. Since the physical activities in this book may be to strenuous in nature for some readers to engage in safely, it is essential that a doctor be consulted before undertaking training

Contents

Introduction

Spinning kicks in brief

A (quick) word on stretching

How to use this book

Seeking out professional services

The Spinning Kicks

Training Drills

Final word

Introduction

Id like to welcome you to my third eBook in the How to get even better at doing Martial Arts series.

Admittedly thats not actually the official title, although that is essentially what the series is.

If youve already read my previous two eBooks available on Amazon:

1. How to Develop the BOX splits

And

1. Martial Arts for Beginners -- the Kicking Series PT 1 -- the Basic Kicks (yes I know, quite a long title).

Then THANK YOU for purchasing this one as well.

If you havent, then dont rule them out.

They contain thirty years of martial arts knowledge, training and experience from someone that actually knows what theyre talking about and can prove this by actually showing you (thats me on the front cover of my How To Develop the BOX Splits book and also The Basic Kicks book as well) and all for the bargain price of less than a pint of beer.

So, on to Spinning Kicks .

In my opinion the spinning kick is by far the most impressive of all the martial art techniques.

Its the kick that always gets a great reaction from the crowd in any competitive martial arts style fight.

Especially if it lands.

And even more so if it knocks someone out!

Its the kick that is used the most in pretty much all the action movies.

Often with a jump attached (although that of course technically makes it a jumping spinning kick).

And it is one of the most difficult kicks to master.

Which I like.

A lot!

I like it because you cant just inject yourself with some illegal performance enhancing substance, or pop a few pills and in a very short space of time be able to pull off a spinning kick like a true ninja warrior.

No, in order to be able to perform a spinning kick of a high enough calibre that you can join all the other martial artists, gymnasts and ballerinas (with their silhouetted splits jumps) on the beach once the sun goes down and instantly gain their respect as someone that actually knows (and looks like they know) what they are doing, you have to invest A LOT of time and effort.

THATS what I like.

Theres NO fast track route to being good at martial arts.

Its quite simply a case of time served.

Let me repeat that.

Its quite simply a case of time served .

Oh, and a shed load of perseverance.

Plus a NEVER give up or quit attitude.

But please dont let that put you off.

You see, one of my other eBooks (I wont tell you which one in case its YOU that wrote the review) attracted quite a lot of reviews. The vast majority were positive but there was one negative.

As youd expect.

Now I dont really worry to much about the odd negative review as you only have to look at Trip Advisor or even the App stores to very quickly realise that some people have nothing good to say about anything -- regardless of how good it is but anyway, someone purchased one of my other eBooks and then left a negative review.

Now Ill admit I write a lot.

For example, I write for the number one Martial Arts magazine in the UK and have done for the past ten years (little bit of a self credibility boost there so you may now have a little more confidence in the fact that I may perhaps know what Im talking about and your 1.99 hasnt been wasted).

I have also written several paperback books on Martial Arts (priced at 16.99 plus) and in one of those books I just happened to touch on the same subject that I then went on to write a scaled down version of in an eBook.

In fact if youre reading this bit now using the Amazon Look Inside feature, know that if you already own my paperback book Kickboxing from Beginner to Black Belt , what youre about to read also features in that.

So DONT buy this!

Anyway the scaled down version wasnt actually a diluted version of what Id written about in the book.

In fact if anything, due to the fact that I was re-creating a new book entirely based on this subject matter I actually padded it out more.

In fact what I did was take that one subject out of the main book, focus on it, and leave the rest of the subjects still in the book.

That way, if someone didnt want to part with 16.99 but still wanted to learn how to do this one specific thing, they could, and for a lot less money.

Anyway someone having bought the paperback, full on, extended (and more expensive) version also bought the scaled down eBook version of the exact same subject, read it and then wrote a negative review about the eBook they had just bought and stated that it was pretty much the same as the (much more expensive) paperback version.

Of course it was.

There was nothing new about the subject matter.

No newly discovered technique that all of a sudden made it much more effective or even easier to do.

If I wanted to learn how to boil the perfect egg, Id buy a book on how to boil the perfect egg.

And once Id discovered how to boil the perfect egg, I wouldnt then go on to buy a second book on how to also boil the perfect egg (and I especially wouldnt do it if it was by the exact same author).

Id have the secret to boiling the perfect egg from the first book so Id just get started on boiling the perfect egg.

So.

And heres my rhetorical question.

If you already had the information.

The EXACT same information that told you how to achieve something.

And thats not me making the particular subject matter up by the way.

Thats me designing it and using myself and my thirty years in martial arts as the guinea pig to prove that what Im saying actually works with photos of me doing it and showing that it works.

Why then spend even more money on yet another book that simply tells you the exact same thing?

And expecting it to be different?

Whats that saying. The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time?

Something like that.

Well Ill tell you why someone would buy the eBook as well as the original paperback book (and yes, I appreciate that was a rhetorical question but Im still going to tell you the answer).

Its because sometimes, some people think that by simply buying something that promises to somehow change your life, or even make you better at something, is enough.

Or worse, buying something that promises to make your life even better and hoping to open it up and discover some magical formula that will make you instantly better over night.

Lifes just not that simple.

However, I am happy to tell you that I have discovered the magic formula .

And Im happy to share it with you now.

And its actually VERY simple.

It is

Bloody hard work and a NEVER quit attitude!

Thats it.