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Low kick is a leg technique used in certain boxes pieds-poings (Burmese boxing, kickboxing and Thai boxing Muay Thai) and certain martial arts. It consists in striking a blow with shinbone or a kick in the lower limb of the opponent (thigh or leg). According to the official rules concerning sport, it can be carried to the outer and to the inner part of the lower limb.

In fights in full contact (so-called K.O. system), these kicks are allowed in order to make an opponent not stable, indeed to have an advantage.

In the matter of hits in the legs, several kicks exist: circular or roundhouse kick, semicircular kick, balanced kicks (stick kick, crescent kick, axe kick...), kicks along the straight line (front kick and side kick), hooked-type kicks (hook kick), kicks that go down (hammer kick), etc.

In American or Japanese kickboxing, this type of kick can be only circular or semicircular according to the official rules.

  • Saisie fauchage

    The counterattack in circular on the support leg, after a seizing of leg.

  • Front cuisse

    Attacking front kick on the thigh.

  • Side cuisse

    Side kick in stop blow.

  • Semi1

    An outside leg kick.

  • Semi2

    An inside leg kick.

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  • Banteaychhma pradalserey

    Bas-relief of a low thrust kick to the thigh. Located at Banteay Chhmar(12th century/13th century) in the Kingdom of Cambodia.

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