What are the targets for an axe kick and if landed cleanly what damage cold result?

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What are the targets for an axe kick and if landed cleanly what damage cold result?

Answer 1

My sensei's nose is pretty crooked from a full-contact fight years ago with a guy who landed three axe kicks.

Answer 2

Everyone above as covered all the answers.

But I'll say mine anyway ,many years ago when I done Karate I could do the box splits so was extremely flexible and yes you could hit someones head but the main target I was taught to strike with an axe kick was either one of the collar bones,its a great kick for that but as others have said in doing it you are leaving yourself open to a counter attack.

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Answer 3

Primary targets are the collar bone/clavical, deltoid, forhead and top of head. Also a great kick to use to knock down the "guard", (the hands and forearms), for follow-up shots. I've seen cut forheads, orbitals, broken noses and cheeks as the result of a well placed axe-kick. Also sore necks and pectoral muscles. Assuming you could land it clean, one might expect to fracture the collar bone although in 17 years of kickboxing I've yet to see a broken bone as the result of the kick.

Answer 4

An axe kick is usually aimed at the head or the shoulders because you are using your heel. and well, just think of what a heel to the head could do, and thats IF properly performed. Axe kicks are pretty easily avoided, and the person can counter easily from one.

Answer 5

shoulder.. can bounce of head  breaks shoulder and can numb arm