[Oh]

I am currently training in a TKD Dojo and my grandmaster says i need to improve my speed. Can this be achieved thru working out or trigger mindset?

[Kaishindo_mt]

It all comes with practice and also pivoting on ya non kicking leg. The faster you pivot the faster a turning kick will be executed

[8LimbsScientist]

Try plyometrics to build explosiveness in the legs. Also, kick the heavybag rapidly several times. By that I mean several good kicks, not the first good kick followed by several flickety ones where you just rechamber and flick the foot out over and over.

[Oh]

thank you for all the info.
Wut is plyometrics?

[Tease T Tickle]

Plyometrics is the training of the eccentric muscles.
Now for the English translation.
When you are doing a high impact motion, like jumping, there are two phases to the muscular activity. The first (concentric, I believe) executes the motion, the second (eccentric) deals with the left overs, basically. So, when you do a vertical jump, the muscles in your legs exert force to make you leap upwards. When you're coming back down, the same muscles contract in a different way to stop your body from continuing downward into the floor.

An example of a plyometric exercise is as common place as sprinting or as exotic as box jumping. There are different uses for the boxes in plyometrics, but a typical exercise is standing on one box, stepping off to the floor and immediately jumping to the next box so that as soon as your muscles go eccentric, they go concentric.

The results are that you are better able to transition from one muscular phase to another, can quickly execute a number of explosive motions with little to no detriment to your output and an overall greater release of power (force per time).

[shurite44]

Flexibility will also improve your speed. Flexibility can be improved by stretching and throwing kicks. Good luck.

[shurite44]

The best speed practice in my humble opinion is repetition and intensity.

A good speed drill for legs or hands is what I call the 10-9-8 drill.

A boxing coach taught me this a long time ago. We did it primarily with a jab but it works for kicks too.

Hit with same strike 10 times then 9 then 8 all the way to 1. Hit hard and fast as you can.

I do this on a heavy bag usually, sometime I do the same drill shadow boxing.

[graham1]

I've done a similar drill to that in a kickboxing club here in London, expect that the drill started with a single technique done off the lead hand or foot, followed by two of the technique, starting with the lead hand or foot, increasing one by one to ten repetitions, then coming back down one at a time 10 to 1, starting with the lead hand or foot. Very tiring & boy, does it take it out of you!

[Haas]

same here but I lerned it in Tae Kwon Do :P