MT Rib Roundhouse

[chessmachine]

What are everyones preferences for defending this nasty powerful rib kick.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvh6IqSm5Go

[James McRae]

I think the kick was so powerful that it broke the link! 

[Burton]

It's working now.

1st defense is to keep your elbow down and move away while taking it on the arm. Sounds bad, but really isn't when you get the timing. You can also cut kick the other leg at the same time.
Anytime you can stop kick, that is best.
You can also move away from the kick and overhook it for a catch.
Enjoy!

[Gerry Barone]

I usually double block the kicks.  My arm closest to the kick is like a shield where I use my forearm to block.  My other hand comes across and acts like a shock absorber, first making contact with the kick and trying to take some of the sting out before my shield arm takes over.

[Luis Barneto]

I believe movement is almost always the key. We all saw those National Geographic, or Fighting Sciences shows, where they come to the conclusion that a given kick or elbow or knee or punch could destroy, kill, smash, break bones, etc, comparing the impact with car crashes and such.
And when you think of it, people like Bas Rutten (was one of the best MT rib kicks, I believe) never made the damage on a living person that they made at the dummy.
Reason being? Movement.
Like breaking stuff, on demos and graduation tests: Chances are you will never break that brick or board if the person holdin it suddenly starts moving the target.
So, as to everything else, this kick has a "momentum", a point where it will be devastating. But shortly after, will loose all his danger. On the video, that point is the contact with the pads. Once you be habble to move outwards, on the same direction the kick is going, even if it lands, it will be greatly reduced, on its power. That, along with overhook for a catch an using the palm of the other hand to "divide" the impact on the body, was what MT people tought me.