Danny,
Yeah, I am a bit apprehensive about heavy bag work down the road, albeit it seems like a lifetime away for me right now. I can see how certain kicks would present problems, i.e round kicks or those that cross center line and have a horizontal component to them, causing obvious transverse torque across the hip joint. As a shorin-ryu practitioner, I think our kicks are basic enough (front, side, back, and round kicks) to perhaps be less problematic because we tend to try to use the knee like a hinge with all kicks, i.e. "turn your ass into the kick" for side and back kicks, and use the knee like a hinge as it was designed. Also, I don't personally teach high kicks to the head, but rather focus on body kicks. Just my opinion, and I will certainly be extremely conservative and ramp into any heavy bag work slowly. I think at a minimum, I should be able to get back to the point of doing full power kicks into the focus mitts FIRST before I start banging the Everlast. Just doing kata again and working on low stances will be very rewarding to begin with, assuming I don't twist the titanium head out of it's socket the first time I do a 180 degree turn LOL!
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