What is the Roundhouse Kick?

Answer 1

a roundhouse is a kick that comes "around" and strikes sideways.

A sideways front kick if you will, where a front kick is a groin shot. To do a roundhouse kick, you bring get in your stance. Raise up your back leg and bring it forward. As you drive your knee, pivot your foot you are standing on and twist your hips so that your kick comes around. At this point, you would be standing as if you just lifted your leg up sideways and had it bent at the knee.

From there, you snap your leg out in the kicking motion. Bring it back, and then set it down.

If you are having trouble picturing the kick, think of it as a roundhouse punch, which comes around in an arc. This kick does the same thing.

The roundhouse kick is basically when you kick the opponent in the side of the face with the top of your foot and it turned sideways.