UFC 126 Video: Steven Seagal Talks About Teaching Anderson Silva That Front Kick
by Anton Tabuena on Feb 6, 2011 10:30 AM EST
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Martial artist, movie star, and guest MMA trainer, Steven Seagal, talked to Ariel Helwani about "teaching" Anderson Silva that front kick that he used to stop Vitor Belfort on their UFC 126 match up:
I've learned sort of a variation of that [Front Kick] in Japan, probably 30, 40 years ago, and I've been perfecting it all these years. It's not exactly cut out there, it's just something that I created that's a little bit different. I thought Anderson could learn well because he's sort-of a natural born athlete, has very quick hands and feet, and his kicks are good to begin with. So I started teaching him kicks that I thought he could really hurt people with.
In practice, he was knocking other people out with body shots, and at that point I knew he was going to start making these kicks work.
If you were amazed in seeing a front kick KO for the first time, Seagal says it's because he hasn't taught it to a lot of people yet:
...Nobody knows the kick. I'm teaching it to Machida, Anderson, and a few other Brazilians, but we haven't really used it much yet. I haven't shown it to many people yet.
At the press conference Silva credited Seagal with teaching him the kick. As translated by Silva's manager Ed Soares:
"Steven Seagal helped me perfect that kick. That was a kick we were working on before I stepped in. This was a kick that I trained a lot."
Watch the full video after the jump.
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I started a thread about this 5 mins ago
I would be interested to know from any practicing martial artists besides Steven himself what the actual difference between this and a regular front kick is?
(eg is it because feinted low and went straight up like an uppercut)
This kick is very similar to the front kick we use in Kyokushin. From the way the kicking leg is brought up as the hips are rocked backward to the pulling the toes back and landing with the ball of the foot at the same time as you are exploding “outward” with your leg. It usually is aimed at the abdominal or chest region because it’s a larger, more stationary target than the head.
by disinferno06 on Feb 6, 2011 10:09 AM EST up reply actions
cool thanks for the response
Is there anything specifically different about how Anderson delivers it that you can identify?
I noticed he sort of throws his hands in a downward direction, having no idea about this I assumed it is a feint of some sort but for all I know it might help generation of leverage or force.
It's a basic
Jodan migeri. Front kicks are pretty much the only kick you learn in the first year training in Shotokan karate.
Although Anderson is very effective in this instance, there is some flaws with the way he threw it. For example, the reason he throws his arms down is simple balance. This kick should be thrown while the heel of the rear foot remains planted. Anderson’s heel comes off the ground making him more likey to slip. His hands coming down is just his body’s reaction to stay balanced as he thrusts his hips forward to power the kick.
That's not how I learned it at all, in fact quite the opposite
I learned, as you come forward with the kicking foot you shift the balance/weight from the heel to, the ball, of your planted foot. That way if you miss, you are still readily able to move. If you kick while your weight is planted on your anchored heel and you miss, your hips are left wide open and as you come down with super wide legs you are left off balance. And I was also taught that as you lean back with your hips and thrust with your leg, the hands are brought down like that to generate more power. I’ve always done it that way, though I tend to keep one hand with my wrist in front of my chest, instead of bringing both hands down like that. Hopefully that explanation wasn’t too crazy
by disinferno06 on Feb 6, 2011 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
Not sure what style you've trained in but
from a Shotokan karate standpoint most, if not all, techniques are thrown with your rear heel planted….or at least that’s how they are practiced in the humdrum repetetive training style that karate employs.
In the spirit of semantics, yes, ‘Front Snap Kick’ is what I meant or in classic Japanese terminology ‘Jodan Migeri’ ; )
I train in Kyokushin. And ago jodan geri is how I think of front snap kick, specifically to the face. Jodan migeri is just a front kick. As for the way to throw, we usually throw from the ball of the foot, there are some that are thrown planted on the heel but if I do those I sometimes modify them by shifting the foot outward. From the 12-6 position to the 10-4.
Actually....
Jodan – Head
Geri – kick
Keage – snap
‘Jodan geri’ could refer to any number of kicks to the head including mawashi geri, yoko kekomi geri or yoko keage geri.
Oh I see the diff here.
In Shotokan, the Front snap kick to the head is called actually ‘jodan maegeri’. We actually don’t use front kekomi (thrust/push kicks) very often. I didn’t know that the corresponding front snap kick in Kyokushin is called ‘ago jodan geri’.
Nice to talk with a fellow karate guy though.
Cheers.
Also just to add further clarification
It’s a front snap kick, not a front kick. Two different things
by disinferno06 on Feb 6, 2011 12:50 PM EST up reply actions
I'll add my TKD view
The reason it looked a little bit tricky was the shoulders. Usually when you go high, you lean the shoulders back a good deal to allow your hips to punch forward. He held the hips back until right at the end, left his shoulders more forward than a normal head kick. He made up the balance by dropping his hand, but if Vitor’s eyes were high, he would just see shoulders dip back slightly, meaning body kick (probably teep-style). The Anderson whipped the hips forward, snapped high, and landed exactly on the button. It is surprisingly hard to lad a kick like that with amazing accuracy against a mobile opponent.
why is he only teaching it to brazilians?
America makes this guy rich n famous but for some reason he only wants to teach his “secret” kick to people from other countries. Nice. I’ll never understand why its so “cool” to dislike your own country in america
Where does he say he doesn’t like his own country? He’s probably not working with Americans because they don’t take him seriously (and i don’t blame them).
Ps Seagul is seriously weird.
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by chasethegoose on Feb 6, 2011 8:43 AM EST up reply actions
i must have missed the part where he said he disliked america
Two things:
1) he can train whoever he wants without it being some attack on one country or another
2) he can only train people who invite him to come to their camps
C'mon...
Not only did he not say he’s ONLY teaching it to Brazilians, but he’s an actual police officer. I think he loves his country enough.
by E_liminatorjr on Feb 6, 2011 11:16 AM EST up reply actions
ok Seagal
I call Bullshit. I highly doubt he “taught” Anderson that. Seems like he’s just trying to put himself over
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by Submit24 on Feb 6, 2011 8:41 AM EST via mobile reply actions 3 recs
LOL & rec'd
"I am very confident this fight can go either way"
by SpL on Feb 6, 2011 8:47 AM EST up reply actions
I’m highly skeptical of anything Anderson says because he seems like a guy who would make up the story for fun… But despite the fact that Seagal is a weird dude, I honestly don’t think he’d lie about this just for shits and giggles… he takes his ninja code pretty serious.
Getting bent out of shape over a fight promoter lying is like getting upset that a hooker won't kiss you. It betrays a deep lack of understanding of the nature of the profession.
Anderson didn't say it anyway
It was Seagal, there is an error in the comment under the photograph in the original post
Anderson DID say it on the post-fight presser:
"Steven Seagal helped me perfect that kick. That was a kick we were working on before I stepped in. This was a kick that I trained a lot."
by Anton Tabuena on Feb 6, 2011 9:20 AM EST up reply actions
Sweet thanks for clearing it up
You should put that in the main article too
The way Silva jabs with his hips and lands with the ball of his foot is more reminiscent of a Muay Thai teep
by TheConcreteKid on Feb 6, 2011 12:43 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
yeah, but the teep has an outward pushing motion...
Anderson’s front kick had an upwards motion to it at the end. The teep makes contact with the knee bent and it straightens out after contact to push, while anderson made contact with a straight leg.
BTW- Seagal is so full of shit- that’s a standard kick taught in a multitude of martial arts- I learned it in Tae Kwon Do. Anderson claimed that Seagal helped him perfect it, but Seagal just started running with it. Also, Anderson seems very A-Rod-esque to me- like he’s giving the answers that in his mind, the public wants to hear. Comes off as phony, BUT, none of this discounts any of his greatness as a fighter.
by John Danaher's Hair on Feb 6, 2011 1:30 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
That's hugely disrespectful
To a fantastic martial art.
It isn’t effective for fights, but that isn’t really its purpose.
However, I have no contention to your statement that Seagal is full of shit.
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by Drunken cutman on Feb 7, 2011 5:38 PM EST up reply actions
I do actually respect Aikido and I think so of its techinques work and it does good things for people, but...
it seems to have an inordinate amount of instructors that try to sell it has a highly effective self-defense art and try to pass off its demonstrations as actual sparing.
Yeah, watch it again
Silva’s kick had much more of a crescent motion to it, it didn’t have that strong forward momentum that the teep does.
Vitor felt his face go more “up” than “back.”
by Shaun32887 on Feb 6, 2011 4:06 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
agreed, BS
a teep or front kick to the face has been part of Muay Thai, Karate and American Kickboxing FOREVER. Its considered a deep insult in Thailand to teep to the face.
Seagal claims to have invented the kick, so did he train this guy too?
Wiki says
“Front kicks are typically aimed at targets below the chest: abdomen, thighs, knees or lower. Highly skilled martial artists are often capable of striking head-level targets with front kick.”
So it is possible that this is just a regular front kick. Hopefully somebody can mini-chop it and tell us all the subtle differences between a regular front kick employed by a highly skilled martial artist and Steven Seaguls Japanese variation version
Steve Seagal. What a pretentious, fake charlatan. He’s so hungry for any kind of validation that his twisted ego allows him to take credit for another person’s hard work. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Hollywood personified.
by Rug Rug on Feb 6, 2011 8:46 AM EST reply actions 9 recs
for real
After listening to that interview, I feel like I have to bathe myself in turpentine.
by John Danaher's Hair on Feb 6, 2011 1:40 PM EST up reply actions
at 4:40 of the video,
Seagal and Silva work on front kicks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEEd8jVfycg&feature=player_embedded
I don't care what video there is
The front kick is one of the staples in karate. Seagan didn’t invent it….millions practice it everyday including Machida who has probably practiced it since he was 2.
It’s just one of those things in MMA that don’t get used all the time because it could put you at a positional disadvantage .Front kicks (to the body or head) are easier to catch than leg kicks or roundhouse kicks.
by Daveyboy on Feb 6, 2011 11:19 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I actually like Seagal
So I’m definitely not ‘HATIN’.
Front kicks are way harder to catch than round kicks
That’s why they’re thrown defensively most of the time.
The front kick has so much less area to catch and it pushes, so catching it wouldn’t really stop it.
Round kicks are easier to catch for some many reasons, one being that there is more area to grab a hold of. Two, its much easier to tract the trajectory.
"I'll rock your body with big nasty hooks!"
Eeeewwww. Fagan gone down stepped in some bullshit.
I bet you silva’s son would kick the shit out of seagal,………. And myself :-/.
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by F.U.B.A.R on Feb 6, 2011 8:48 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Second thoughts
I’ve considered Seagal’s involvement with Silva to be some kind of weird joke. I have no respect for the man as role model or trainer in the sport of MMA. But after watching this video, I felt obliged to log in and comment that in that in this interview he comes across as a thoughtful and (somewhat) insightful man. Rather surprising.
why the Seagal hate?
When he did train martial arts seriously, he was freaking legit.
He sure was.
The man is a legend in martial arts circles.
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by Brand New Hero on Feb 6, 2011 9:48 AM EST up reply actions
I'm with the guy above me
He’s a legend in Aikido. The first foreigner allowed to open his own dojo in Japan. He actually is totally legit for that stuff. I would not trust his kicks in the least. I’m sure he’s seen some real masters showing off their kicking ability. He is not one of those masters.
If you watch him train
he throws great kicks and he’s still really fast.
"I'll rock your body with big nasty hooks!"
Steven Segal is a class A bullshitter. Nothing he says about martial arts or his own involvement in cool stuff should be taken seriously (for example his stories about fighting Yakuza, actually being an Akido master, and being in the special forces are all totally made up.)
by WanderleiNoooooo! on Feb 6, 2011 9:16 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Sigh
No, he is actually an Aikido master.
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by Drunken cutman on Feb 7, 2011 5:42 PM EST up reply actions
Except, Silva used that kick back in 08’
"...good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now."
Not to mention that it’s a common technique in many MA
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by dancingChicken on Feb 6, 2011 9:23 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm wondering when the novelty will wear off and Anderson moves on to the next person he can keep around for his own personal amusement
I almost threw up when Joe Rogan described Seagal as a Mixed Martial Artist last night. Either the weed is finally attacking the part of Joe’s brain responsible for ‘reason’, or he’s becoming even more of a company shill.
Maybe Anderson can keep Seagal around long enough to learn how to wet himself after being choked out.
by KJ Gould on Feb 6, 2011 9:29 AM EST reply actions 4 recs
GSP should bring Judo Gene to walk him out to the cage.
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by sBruce24 on Feb 6, 2011 11:35 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I've noticed that Rogan seems like more of a shill
when Silva is involved. I feel like he’s given up with Silva and just says what the boss tells him to. Otherwise it would just be something like “Silva is SO good… when he wants to be. Unfortunately he can often be something of a prick in the cage. which will we get tonight? Lets find out. I need a drink…”
I think Rogan meant ‘martial artist’ and the ‘mixed’ got thrown in by mistake.
Shit happens on live TV.
It is
He just also did a lot of silly films, and says daft things in interviews.
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by Drunken cutman on Feb 7, 2011 5:43 PM EST up reply actions
I’m sad to see Steven Seagal making an impact on MMA fighters. Don’t ask me why. It just makes me sad.
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Is it strictly a novelty thing though?
I mean these are some elite level fighters, I don’t know that they would need to waste their time hanging around with celebrity martial artists if they weren’t getting anything out of it?
Like Michael Jackson kept Macaulay Culkin around!
I get the skepticism about Anderson, but do people really think Machida is going along with it just to amuse himself?
Getting bent out of shape over a fight promoter lying is like getting upset that a hooker won't kiss you. It betrays a deep lack of understanding of the nature of the profession.
It’s probably more like he’s doing a favor for his buddy and entertaining Anderson’s pet. Like how Tom Cruise makes hollywood execs attend Scientology galas before he signs off on movies.
"A guy in Texas came up to me and told me ‘Frye you're not mixed martial arts, you're no holds barred’, and I said you're god damn right partner." ~ Don Frye
For trying to take credit for the most dramatic kick in UFC history, Seagal needs to be locked in a room with Gene LeBell.
to be fair
Anderson also said it was a kick Seagal had worked with him on.
That kick is not new to anyone who has practiced karate or muay thai in the past. He’s giving lip service to Seagal’s ego there.
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by sBruce24 on Feb 6, 2011 11:38 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Possible slight correction
Instead of “It’s not exactly cut out there”. I think he says “It’s not exactly Karate”. He just gives it that special pronunciation.
"There wasn't a man voting for it that didn't think that under a setup of this kind he'd muscle in on the profits of the men abler than himself...But while he was thinking that he'd get unearned benefits from the men above he forgot about the men below who'd get unearned benefits too. He forgot about all his inferiors that would rush to drain him just as he hoped to drain his superiors...That was our real motive when we voted. That was the truth of it. But we didn't like to think it. So the less we liked it the louder we yelled about our love for the common good."
Seagal nausea aside: it’s great to see elite MMA fighters integrating martial arts techniques beyond the standard Muay Thai/JiuJitsu/Wrestling/Boxing curriculum.
by tharv3 on Feb 6, 2011 10:10 AM EST reply actions 3 recs
Looks like a textbook front kick to me. When I was in Karate back in the day, people got kicked in the face all the time. It’s just new to MMA. Not only is Segal trying to take credit for coaching Anderson to victory, but now he’s going to try to take credit for “inventing” the front kick!?
by Cmad77 on Feb 6, 2011 10:11 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
My thoughts exactly. Doesn’t look any different from the front snapping ball kick I learned in Kenpo. It’s only distinction is that it is NOT a pushing Muay Thai tee kick, as we most commonly see in MMA. Hell, Royce was using those kicks in UFC 1, they just didn’t have Anderson Silva behind them.
Royce used that kick with his lead leg to create distance to shoot for the TD
this kick gets its full impact from the back leg thats why it can K people TFO
by MMA_Revolution on Feb 6, 2011 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
We have seen this kind of KO before, actually.
Cory Tait KOs Dino Gambetesa.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Feb 6, 2011 10:24 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
OMG
It’s the BLACK AND YELLOW SHORTS OF DOOM! That’s what makes it work!
No.
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by The Lethal Haze on Feb 6, 2011 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
Not to be a dick but that is not a front kick
That’s a crescent kick of sorts. Watch very closely in the front on view of the kick, watch his hips. Instead of bringing his leg up and moving his hips back ( like a front kick); he brings his leg up-turns his hips inward slightly, then opens his hips up, allowing the kick to go from the inside to the outside. Crescent kick to the face
I think that's more a result of the kick being thrown so high
It’s really hard to chamber a front kick to attack a target that high in its normal linear, penetrating manner. I think if you were to have someone hold a target for you at chest level and they told you to throw a front kick, you would do it fine. If they slowly started to raise the target higher and higher, I think you’d naturally start throwing it with that crescent motion
Not necessarily. A front kick can go to the face quite easily, so where it landed isn’t a determination of what he threw. Also look at his hips. Look at the swivel. That is what makes it a crescent. If it was an off balance front kick his hips would stay straight, the might just move up and down, as it were. That was an inside crescent kick
I think I messed up
I was talking about the Silva kick, not the Tait kick.
I’m curious now, do you think the same thing applies to the Silva kick?
It could
But his kick started as, and ended as, a front kick
by disinferno06 on Feb 21, 2011 11:18 AM EST up reply actions
After seeing that
I’m convinced its a crescent kick.
Look how the foot moves inside then curves back out.
"I'll rock your body with big nasty hooks!"
Why does Segal always stand with his arms crossed like that
I thought for a sec If Ariel had asked him the wrong question he would have snapped him in half lol!
Seriously though we used to drill that front kick in shotokan all the time…I dont know whats so Special about it…I wouldnt say that to Segals face though.. : P
Front kick seem pretty normal to me
I love Silva. He’s the best! Segal seems like a fun guy and all that. But this kick is no secret. My style of karate, Toshindo, is an offshoot of Kyokushin and this front kick seems pretty basic to me. Silva nailed him with speed, power, perfect technique and perfect aim. When that happens and you hit that button, your opponent is going down. ESPECIALLY when Silva hits you with it!
I’m saying I can, or anyone can knock a man out with this…but put the weapon in the hip/leg/foot of the Master and we can see the result.
What is this shit.. Steven Seagal did NOT invent the front kick to the face! Despite what Joe Rogan is saying with his usual hyperbole and pot-induced bad memory, I have seen front kicks to the face many times in MMA, kickboxing, and muay thai. It is unusual that it has enough force to knock a man out, but even this I am sure I have seen before. It was a cool finish for sure, but let’s not act like they’ve invented some kind of secret new weapon here, it’s just that it’s seldom used and rarely manages to KO anybody.
I love Seagal's movies!
While Seagal may not be an MMA artist, he’s still a pretty deadly dude.
by SmittytheCutman on Feb 6, 2011 11:03 AM EST reply actions
How many ways can you kick man?
I mean according to James Toney, there is a side-kick, a back kick, and a side back kick, right? Steven has been watching too many movies. Silva should have given credit to Shawn Tompkins for telling him to kick Belfort in exactly that moment. Oh wait. That was a rumor too? But Franklin McNeil kind of talked about it like it was a fact. At least we had Kevin Iole talking about how Dana’s relationship with Anderson would be like if that kick did not land.
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hahahahaha
segal is hilarious, but im unsure if it is on purpose or not.
but if i had to choose id say that he is having a laugh
There's a lot of discussion about this kick...
..but surely it was ‘just’ a well timed, ‘Anderson Silva executed’™ front snap kick?
LOL
sure sure….a front push or snap kick to the face his is baby huh….
Its so stupid..
Seagal saying he thought the kick to Anderson. Its a front snap kick. Forrest was using it half an hour before against Franklin. its just Anderson managed to connect perfectly and KO’d Belfort. Griffin used the same kick against Tito in their last fight too. It was a spectacular moment but the kick is nothing new.
http://www.mma-core.com/gifs/_Anderson_Silva_Front_Kick_KOs_Vitor_Belfort_UFC_1?gid=10001723&tid=100
Similar obviously
But 1. Anderson doesn’t take a jab step and 2. Forrest is “pushing” more where Anderson is snapping the kick up into the chin. 3. I don’t think anyone is saying front kicks to the head are anything crazy, it’s the KO off of a front kick that is nuts.
Not afraid to nitpick
GSP was hit with this kick before
go to 5:30 to see GSP get hit
go to 1:35 to hear the weirdest sound effects ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmOO86SJEIA&feature=related
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this is why silva is so good too. He is open minded to other m arts. Most American fighters would just say if its not muay thai or boxing,it isnt effective. You rarely see wrestlers train anything other than boxin/muay thai
BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If anyone takes this seriously you have got to be stupid!!!!!! Its a freaking Muay Thai rear teep!!!!!!! Steven Seagal is an actor!!!! He paid Anderson to say that, it is SO OBVIOUS!!!!!!! What a joke!!!!!!
total BS
I don’t care if Anderson also credited him with, I’ve seen him use front kicks like that before he met Steven S., one look at that Machida video of him correcting Machidas punches just showed what a fraud this dude is.
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by cosmic fist technique on Feb 6, 2011 1:31 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Hahahahahaha
…Nobody knows the kick. I’m teaching it to Machida, Anderson, and a few other Brazilians, but we haven’t really used it much yet. I haven’t shown it to many people yet.
Yeah, no one.
Besides anyone who has ever been trained in any traditional martial art on Earth for the past thousands of years.
by jcbrewer on Feb 6, 2011 1:40 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
That KO kick is Anderson's high kick from UFC Undisputed 2009
someone gif that shit, same move. crazy
yeah
i was going to say, they actually made that kick Anderson’s signature head kick in both the 2009 and 2010 video games…
yeah, I remembered this exact moment when I saw the kick.
and remembered it again after Seagal made me LOLz.
by Anton Tabuena on Feb 6, 2011 10:39 PM EST up reply actions
EXACTLY!!!!
That is exactly what I have been tweeting in response to this ridiculous statement since it happened. Hendo caught it to the neck – only difference
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by CSC Memorabilia on Feb 7, 2011 1:08 AM EST up reply actions
In Seagal’s twisted mind, he is the big badass sensei and Machida is just an underling student. Hence the use of ‘-kun.’
by Flying Gogoplata on Feb 6, 2011 6:45 PM EST up reply actions
...Lets not get carried away
That was a straight forward front kick that I’ve been learning in McDojos since I was 5. The only difference is that is was throw so high, leading to it having a sweeping motion at the end, similar to a crescent kick.
Cole Escovedo knocked out Maeda with a similar kick last year at DREAM.13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW7ICZJtikg
Jump to 3:25, it’s not thrown as high, but it’s the same motion.
Last night, I thought that Silva had more of a penetrating, jabbing motion to it; watching it again this morning I take that back
WTF
I had joked with someone that Silva would win with a Steven Seagal front kick. Didn’t realize I was actually channeling my inner Miss Cleo and predicted the future.
No its not
The motion ain’t even similar.
Its a snapping motion, not a push. Its a crescent kick.
"I'll rock your body with big nasty hooks!"
thrust kick>
I just read somewhere that it was a thrust kick as it was from the rear leg?
To me it looks like a crescent kick, off the rear leg, to the face.
Nate did a great Judo Chop on Kikuno’s crescent kick combo
Its the snapping, upward motion that makes me want to call it that.
"I'll rock your body with big nasty hooks!"
I agree
I mentioned this exact same thing on a previous post, not that it was a Crescent Kick, but the way Silva brought the knee up first and THEN snapped the foot out. I thought it was quite deceptive because Vitor did react to the knee being raised (you can see his reaction on some of the slow-mo gifs), but had no clue that the foot was going to “spring” out the way that it did.
by SentientAndroid on Feb 7, 2011 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
The kick LOOKED NOTHING LIKE THIS! And Seagal was an Aikdo guy anyway, he didnt study Japanese karate.
Segal is a liar
I’m talking about the snapping motion.
The teep is a push.
"I'll rock your body with big nasty hooks!"
Hmmmm...
Both Vitor and Ben Henderson are avid Christians and they both recently fell to wicked, extraordinary kicks…interesting.
by SentientAndroid on Feb 7, 2011 11:23 AM EST reply actions
i'm sittin here lmao
at how much of u lot r offended that Anderson Silva may have been telling the truth that steven seagal taught him something he used to end his fight with Vitor.
absolutely brilliant. keep it up guys…
'if you don't have humility as a fighter, fighting will bring humility to you...'
Im lmao at this comment, anybody who thinks this crap works can come on in to OC Muay Thai in Seal Beach and give it a try, they will be happy to bust you “Aikido masters” up. You’ll have to sign the waiver of course. Seagal is a joke, hes an actor, not a marital artist.
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