KEY AREAS: Balance, Timing and Control.
START POSITION: Stand up straight with feet slightly apart and with arms hanging loose by your sides. Start to jog on the spot, to get a rhythm going.
NOTES: Now then, for simplicity, start by kicking up the right leg fairly powerfully using your Quad muscle. In the same instant you must swing your arm back from the shoulder (on the same side as the kicking leg). And also in the same moment you must move the other arm up across the center of your body by bending the elbow and moving it from the shoulder. The momentum of your arm shooting backwards will balance out the force of your kicking leg. This is similar in principle to the action of running, whereby one leg steps forward while the opposite arm also shoots forward. You should think about the action of how a person runs before you attempt this exercise. The arms and legs act as a balance to each other.
After you have kicked, allow your arms and legs to swing back to the central position in a controlled manner, and then try to continue the rhythm of the swing by continuing to jog gently on the spot. Then you need to time it just right so that the other leg will do the high kick on the right beat. You can try counting out loud ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) and try to kick on the count of 5.
I noticed that there are many different types of Kick exercise out there, with some pretty whacky variations. So actually the exercise I describe here is quite straight forward. This is one of those exercises that I find it hard to describe because it is something that my body just started doing amidst the rhythm of everything else. Instinctively. Please feel free to experiment with it – you can leave it out, or move it elsewhere in the sequence of exercises, but be careful because the order and sequencing of exercises and sessions in the Mojoh Method has been carefully created through my own trial and error to see what works and what doesn’t.
When a person trains regularly, sometimes the body just seems to start doing its own thing, and it feels good. Let it happen. But think about what is happening and why. If you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about then just keep training regularly and listen to your body, because one day you will feel it, and then you will understand.