No matter how great a striker or wrestler you are, you are going to come up against fighters who insist on leading in with kicks to your legs to either take you down or weaken your legs which will make you slow and easy to knock down. And it is frankly amazing to see even well rated fighters who appear untrained in who to deflect these blows, specifically from low kicks to the thigh and knee. No matter how hard you train or workout in the gym, certainly a well placed blow to the knee you could at the least put you out of the octagon for some months or end your career all together. Following are some tips for your to try out in your next sparring session that will likely take your opponent by surprise and give you the upper hand.
Again these are defenses specifically against lower body MMA style kicks. Firstly you do need to avoid connecting a shin on shin as this could easily result in the shattering of your bone doing serious damage. Instead the first most basic defense you can try is instead of taking the blow to the side of your thigh as you will most often see in UFC competitions try turning your leg outwards to absorb the blow with the front of your thigh at a 90 degree angle with your attackers shin. You ought to find this much easier to absorb and less painful than the way you normally practice.
Secondly you can try to catch your opponents strike with the front of your ankle - the center point of the curve from your lower leg to foot. This is an extremely hard bone. The trick is to raise your leg and push out and forward as you connect, breaking the power of the incoming kick, causing a great deal of pain to your opponent and throwing them off balance leaving them open to your follow through attack.
The third and possibly easiest move to add to your arsenal is to make your attacker strike you on the front ball of the knee with his shin. To do this of course you must left and bend your leg to avoid breakage. But your opponent's shin connecting with your extremely hard knee will if not break his leg at least put them in such excruciating pain, that they will not want to strike you again. This not only will throw them off guard and injure them but throw off their strategy and confidence helping you to gain the advantage and claim victory. But please practice these moves with care to avoid injuring yourself as well and always practice with the correct martial arts gear for you protection.
Learning these techniques are not easy and shouldn't be taken lightly. You must practice these before attempting to perform these in a live competition. So, just have you and your partner gear up with shin or foot guards and start working on the different way and see what feels most natural to you. You will begin gravitating towards one specific move so that can be your defense against your opponent's kicks.
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