The side kick is the general name for the arc kick method in Sanda, including high side kick, medium side kick and low side kick. Some people also call the side legs "whip legs". But in fact, the whip leg is not the correct name. It is more appropriate to call it the side leg. In the history of Sanda, side kicks were called whip kicks (also called whip kicks among the people), horizontal kick kicks, side kick kicks, and side kick kicks. Many people cannot distinguish the difference between sweeping kicks and side kicks in Muay Thai, and they are often confused together. But in fact, their difference is actually very big. Let’s talk about the side kicks of our Sanda first. Nowadays, the kicks of the side kicks in general schools are as follows: "raise the knee, close it, bounce it, and retract it from the original path (it can be retracted regardless of whether it hits the target)." The sweeping kick of Muay Thai is Like this: "Lift the legs, send the hips, step on the feet and twist the waist, sweep out the tibia (if the target is not hit and swept out, the body will rotate 360 ??degrees back to the original position due to the inertia generated by the full strength of the whole body being exerted on the tibia. Many games or exercises It can be seen in the video that the whole body is stiff). "In this way, it is not difficult for us to see the difference. They all have their own advantages and relative disadvantages. Comparatively speaking, the side leg control and flexibility of Sanda are worse than sweep kicks, but the lethality is not as good as sweep kicks (this is why high-level European and American athletes prefer sweep kicks). However, although the whip kick of Sanda is not as fast as sweep kicks, But the overall speed is fast and it is not easy to be thrown (the rules determine the technique), and the legs are not as strong as Muay Thai for sweeping kicks (it is better at scoring rather than destroying the opponent). It occupies an important position in modern hand-to-hand fighting techniques, and it is also one of the kicking techniques that is highly valued in martial arts in various countries around the world. However, it should be noted here that the side kick is a patent of Sanda. Kicks with similar movements in other martial arts fighting sports cannot be generalized by the side kick. Let’s first figure out what similar kicking techniques are called in different martial arts fighting sports. Muay Thai and kickboxing call it "horizontal kick", WTF Taekwondo calls it "horizontal kick" or "spin kick", and karate calls it "forward kick".