Introduces Tina Lindquist, ACE certified personal trainer and conditioning coach.
There are two primary jumping techniques used in martial arts tricking. Use this drill to help your students master these jumps and become better trickers.
Sport Karate | Tricking | Jumping | Plyometrics
Applying force into the ground on your non-kicking leg is essential to developing more power. Use this drill to develop the strength necessary to kick with this kind of power.
Fitness | Cardio | Plyometrics | Jumping | Power | Kicking
Use this progression to ease your students into depth jumps. The skills learned in this progression will help your student with fighting movement or aerial kicking.
Fitness | Cardio | Plyometrics | Jumping
Learn the correct way to box jump. This drill is great for developing the leg strength needed for advanced kicking skills.
The Juice Compound | Mobility | Flexibility | Strength | Conditioning | Warm Up | Power | Exercise | Safety | PlyoBox | Fitness
Before learning the box jump technique. it is important to understand several necessary safety measures.
The Juice Compound | Strength | Conditioning | Warm Up | Power | Exercise | PlyoBox | Fitness
This progression is great for developing more strength and lower body stability. The progression makes this drill much safer.
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | Fitness
The third level of this progression incorporates box jumping to maximize force. This drill is designed for a low number of reps.
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | PlyoBox | Fitness
The beginner level of the knee jump is a simple transition from both knees being on the ground, to what is called a "power position".
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | Fitness
The final level of this progression uses a bo staff to add a snatch to the knee jump. This motion creates a tremendous amount of violent hip power.
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | Fitness
The next level of the knee jump works power transfer and bounding. Simply add another jump immediately after reaching power position.
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | Fitness
This warm up increases leg mobility and strength by drawing figure 8 motions with their leg fully extended.
Warm Up | Conditioning | Strength | Bag Drill | Kicking | Partner Drill | Balance
The purpose of this drill is to help students stay on the balls of their feet while sparring, which is very important to explosive speed.
Sparring | Focus | Movement | Footwork | Conditioning
Linking arms while doing squats pushes each partner to stay at the same level as their classmate. This is great for any age group or in a family class.
Power | Team Work | Conditioning | Strength
Use this slow step-by-step drill to condition your student's leg muscles needed for round and side kicks.
Conditioning | Chamber | Kicking | Balance
This exercise focuses on the core and legs. The lunges will work the legs while the twisting at the end will strengthen the core.
Conditioning | Fitness | Lunge
This drill will help you maximize height when doing tricking forms or techniques. This drill is also great to incorporate into a functional fitness routine.
Fitness | Conditioning | Tricking | Jumping | Exercise