This exercise will help you kick faster, double your reset kicking speed, and prevent your kicks from getting caught or being swept. 

Why is retraction training so important though? 

Because it is the opposing action of the hitting action. 

Not training it is the equivalent of only throwing a punch and not worrying about retracting the punch back to stance... (ya, a ton of people do that too!)

It's the equivalent of doing only bench press and not doing back exercises. 

The principle of push pull is simple. It is a conclusive, unobjectionable truth in training. Yet people do not apply it.

Even worse, they do stuff like cable punching or resistance band kicking, which actually makes them worse long term (please don't call that sport science).

And even if people apply the push pull principle to some body parts, they definitely don't have the tools to apply it to this specific movement. 

This exercise is what legendary sport scientist, Dr. Yessis, calls the "paw back." It is the opposing action of the "knee drive or glute drive."

Saenchai and other legendary Jocky gym coaches will correct many fighters on this, but after years of training just the hitting portion of the kick AND NOT the retraction, it becomes very difficult to correct.

That's how bad habits are formed and why most people never get really good. In my view, it's a tragic waste of everyone's time.

Bad habits negatively snowball and make it hard to correct later on... unless you have amazing tools to make up for it (this exercise is a great example).

On the flip side, good habits positively snowball (which many of the most talented fighters, the 0.1%, naturally receive with great technical coaching). 

Unfortunately, I am not the 0.1%, and neither is David.

If Dr. Yessis designed this exercise after working with countless world champions and olympic medalists in every sport, he thinks most people need it to make breakthroughs.

And actually, that's what I've found with everyone I've coached under this "LK-Yessis" system in Legendary Fundamentals. 

Whether they're a beginner, intermediate, or a top ranked fighter... they massively improved their techniques, so much so that they don't even believe their progress in the short time frame was possible.

This is Winna, an amateur prospect and student of Nong-O, who suffers same pattern of not pulling back her kicks due to her explosive swings in tennis.

Tennis swings do not require an immediate return like striking arts (hence me showing her David's retraction training and her being amazed).

David Tian once told me that each one of these exercises I'm teaching is worth $500 to him, and that I should view it like that too. 

In my own head, I said to myself, ya no one would ever pay that...

But wait, that's pretty much exactly what I did with my Dr. Yessis mentorship, which cost $800 a month.

From Dr. Yessis, I learned over 20 specialized exercises in-depth and how to design them for striking.

Now you're getting one of these exercises for free (yes, it hurts me a little), why not give it a viewing chance?

If you are interested in what we did in detail, plus hundreds of technique tutorials and live training with all levels (including top ranked fighters)... join the Legendary Fundamentals Premium Curriculum. 

Right now its on 75% discount bundle, combining Legendary Sports Science with Legendary Fundamentals, with bonuses from legends teaching world class knowledge themselves. 

This founder's access offer will end on June 5th Midnight, and the bundle and bonuses will be removed too. Hope to see you on the inside. 

Your friend in martial arts, 

Lawrence Kenshin

P.s. the masterclass series with David Tian ends today. Now you will see higher level content with top ranked fighters and legendary fighters coming soon... stay tuned!