Achieving Kicking Excellence: Wheel Kick

This book is the second volume in the extremely well written and fullyillustrated, Achieving Kicking Excellence™ series of books.

Like all the other books in the series, this book goes into intricatedetail over all aspects of executing the primary kick, which in thiscase is the Turning Wheel Kick, and several of its main variations.

Starting with a basic anatomical analysis of this kick, you quicklyprogress to the basic principles associated with the Wheel Kick, andthen you dive right into learning the proper execution of the primarykick, Turning Wheel Kick.

Once you have finished with this section, you are taken to thevariations chapter which builds upon the primary kick, Turning WheelKick, by teaching you 10 of its main variations. From here you aretaken to the "Training and Practice Methods" chapter for a look atsome very simple, yet effective methods for adding speed and power toyour kicks.

The next chapter takes a "question and answer" approach to some of themost common problems people have executing these kicks and thesolutions to correct them.

After you have finished the "Troubleshooting" chapter, the nextchapter in this book deals with a brief application section for eachof the kicks previously detailed in this book. Please be advised thata second ten volume series of books is currently being written whichdeals strictly with the combat and tournament applications of eachkick.

The book finishes up by giving you a sneak preview of the next volumein the series, which in this case is volume three, Axe Kick.

This series of books is written by Shawn Kovacich, who is not only ahigh ranking black belt in both Tae Kwon Do and Karate,but he is alsoa two-time world record holder for endurance high-kicking as certifiedby the Guinness Book of World Records.