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Steven Seagal talks about teaching UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva the front kick that won him Saturday’s fight against Vitor Belfort.
I’ve learned sort of a variation of that [Front Kick] in Japan, probably 30, 40 years ago, and I’ve been perfecting it all these years. It’s not exactly cut out there, it’s just something that I created that’s a little bit different. I thought Anderson could learn well because he’s sort-of a natural born athlete, has very quick hands and feet, and his kicks are good to begin with. So I started teaching him kicks that I thought he could really hurt people with. In practice, he was knocking other people out with body shots, and at that point I knew he was going to start making these kicks work.
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Steven Seagal to Anderson Silva “Do that kick that I’ve been teaching you.” Seagal talks about the origin of the kick and his thoughts on how good Anderson Silva is.