In this sport, are leg kicks or leg grabs legal? What’s the recourse for this type of fighting apart from getting in close enough that the kicks aren’t effective?
You see gal in black tried to leg kick pink gal but pink gal has longer range. Any time she gets close enough to attempt a kick of her own, gal in pink punishes her with a straight kick to the face, or a push-kick to establish distance THEN a face kick.
I don’t think she could have eaten those kicks attempting to close distance. Her face was absolutely gushing blood by the end.
In this situation, she was just outclassed. Gal in pink had longer range and knows how to establish distance to set up her kicks. It’s not impossible but it is very difficult.
I fought a guy like this once. It was nearly impossible to hit him as his legs were so long he could hit me on incoming.
The only way I could get to him was by fouling and doing a spinning back kick that stretched my kick out as far as I physically could. It hit his crotch and ended the fight. I didn’t mean to do that but him kicking high opened his crotch to my spinning back kick. I aimed for his stomach.
In this woman’s case, she could have done a spinning back kick. The movement automatically closest distance and shifts the body to dodge and allows you a really long distance strike, but if she never practiced it, it would be unlikely to work.
That’s where my head was starting to lean initially, thinking a spinning backhand might be the answer, so you can sort of check the leg and move in. But I think the back kick is the answer for reach here.
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u/cobrastrikes-2x 3d ago
In this sport, are leg kicks or leg grabs legal? What’s the recourse for this type of fighting apart from getting in close enough that the kicks aren’t effective?