421 - Aide-mémoire: Devastating kicks with Coach Srba Cvijetic
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I’m recently returned from Serbia (where I am part-based now) where I met up with fight coach and good friend, Srba Cvijetic for two weeks of training at his excellent, “SAMAS” Martial Arts Academy in Jagodina.
I look forward to my visits there, he has a solid group of fighters training at his gym and the emphasis in sessions is on focused hard work which I really enjoy, along with the opportunity to look at performance aspects in detail and get feedback on them. This is how I like to work personally, so it’s a really good fit for me.
Thanks to Coach Srba (who I’ve trained with for over 15 years now) for this video and set of performance notes (below) from one specific session where he covered roundhouse kicking for power and how to integrate this into fighting strategy.
The “devastating” part of the title is no hyperbole, Srba’s kicks really do need to be experienced to be believed in terms of their effect - truly destructive combative kicks.
Srba is a life long practitioner of multiple martial arts as well as working for many years in private security work both in Belgrade and abroad.
He has a very open minded and practical view towards tactics and has a good ability to filter martial arts “style-isms” out to express the essential core of an idea without baggage, which is both refreshing and also sometimes hard to find.
Along with many coaching ideas and drills I picked up from him, I’ve noted a major upgrade in my own kicking ability in this short time and will be implementing these and other ideas into some of my workshops here as well as my own training - thank you my friend!
Kicking for survival fighting
Please refer to this previous article for extensive notes, tactics and five tuitional videos:
