Wing Chun kicks

martial arts - WingChun Techniques:

Kick technique.
kicking is not so popular in wing chun, because almost all techniques in wingchun using hand. my friend, a wing chun practicioner, told me that it's better to use
hand in real combat, because you can hit your enemy faster, and also safer to hit your enemy with punch than with kick, especially high kick.

But in wing chun,  kicks are aimed low, usually the target is from ribs to below.

Here are the common kicks you’ll see used by WingChun practicioner.

1) Stomp Kick
It’s an ultra-short kick. When fully extended a stomp kick reaches about the same distance as a straight punch.
It's powerful and killer. The force is delivered down with the heel. The main targets are the knees and shins.

2) Front Kick
It’s a fast kick technique. you can see this kind of kick in many other martial arts styles.
The strike should explode into the target. It’s delivered with either the ball of the foot or the top-of-foot-lower-shin part of the leg in an upward direction.
The best target for the front kick is the groin.
Other targets are the gut, the floating ribs, and in the right situation — the head.
when your opponent is bent over in pain and has lowered his or her head to waist level. Waist level (groin level) is a great height for a front kick to the face.

3) Side Kick
Side kic is the longest distance kick.
The direction of the force is straight out from the kicker into the target. Kind of like a straight punch with the foot.
this is a kick and not a push. When you throw a side kick, the impact should explode into the target, not only push your opponent.
The impact is delivered with either the heel or the knife of the foot.
It’s also a versatile kick.
With very little adjustment to the body, you can deliver it in almost any direction from the kicking leg’s side of the body.
Out in front of you, to your left or right side (from the same side of the kicking leg; not across the body), and behind you (at this point many martial artists would call it a back kick, but it looks and feels like a side kick thrown behind you).

4) Round Kick
It’s basically the same round kick from other martial art forms. But with WingChun philosophy there’s no over commitment like you’ll find with kickboxing.
In kickboxing, if the boxer misses the round kick the fighter will let the momentum of the kick spin him or her all the way around.
Not so with WingChun.
The angle of attack comes from the outside, in. Ideally, you want the target to be within the apex of the round kick’s arc. If you miss, the kick ends at the apex and you recover for the next move - there’s no merry-go-round spin.
The targets are the thighs, knees, torso, gut and ribs.
The blow is delivered with the top-of-foot-lower-shin and in certain occasions the ball of the foot.