Glenn

How to Kick Down a Door
It's bound to happen sometime - the house keys are inside, you're outside, and the door is locked. Naturally, your first option should be a spare key, picking the lock, an unlocked window, prying the lock with a credit card, or even calling a locksmith, but if all of these fail, sometimes you've got to take a more drastic approach.
Steps

1. Stay calm. It's natural to be angry or upset, but it isn't going to help, and it's certainly not going to make your kick better. In fact, it increases the likelihood of injury. Before you knock down the door, make sure you've exhausted your other options. Is there any other way to get in? Have you considered breaking a small window that you can easily replace? Take stock of your situation, and if there's no other choice, go on to the next step.
2. Select an entrance that can most easily break upon impact and most cost-effectively be replaced.
3. Focus on the area just below the doorknob. This is where you will deliver the blow in order to apply maximum force. Take a breath or two, and prepare to strike.
4.
Side Kick
Side Kick
Stand sideways a few feet away from the door, with your dominant foot facing toward it. With your dominant leg, side kick the area just below the doorknob quite hard. When executing this kick, you should not be "balanced"; rather, your center of mass should be in front of, not over, your supporting leg, giving you momentum. This should feel somewhat like you are "falling into" your target. Do not lean away from the kick, but keep your body upright as much as possible.
* The goal of this swift kick is to break the weakest part of the door which is usually the frame, the latch, or the lock. For most wooden doors without very large bolt locks, successfully using this technique will cause the trim around the door to break, allowing the door to open.
* Unlike in a normal martial arts side kick, it is advisable to hit with the sole or heel of the foot, rather than the edge. Since you are trying to transfer total kinetic energy, rather than to damage the area directly struck by your kick, increasing the impact area in this fashion is not detrimental to the effect, and helps reduce the risk of injury to your foot.
5. Try once or twice more if it does not work the first time. However, you should not hammer away at a stubborn door too many times, because this may cause too much damage to the door (or your body). Try to find another way in, or just wait for help.


Alternate Method: Back Kick

1. Stand with your back to the door and kick like a donkey. This method offers a lot of force, more stability, and your foot lands flat just under the door knob.
2. Place your arms on the shoulders of a buddy standing in front of you (or use a table or anything that won't move and will support your weight) for further stability while you concentrate on landing your foot in the proper location.
3. Take a few practice "taps" to help prevent breaking your foot on the doorknob.


Alternate Method: Front Push Kick

1. Keep in mind that front kicking a door down will not offer as much force as a side or back kick, but increases the risk of injury dramatically, because the force used is not directly perpendicular to the door, and the toes of a foot may land on the knob or lock instead of the door, which may strain the ankle or break the tendons on the heel.
2. Stand a few feet away from the door, with your dominant foot placed in the back.
3. Use your dominant leg to front kick the area just below the doorknob quite hard (with a forward, pushing motion, not an upward swing). Do not use the ball of your foot to perform this strike; instead, use your heel. Be careful not to strike your foot on the doorknob.


Tips

* You probably won't be able to kick it in if you are not kicking in the direction the door normally swings, so you'll want to check the swing of the door before you break your foot. When the door opens outward, removing the door hinges might be an easier way to get in. However, many commercial door hinges have theft proof hinge pins that do not allow them to be removed.
* If you think you might need to use this skill at some point, practice it a few times on safe, easy targets. This will help ensure that you don't injure yourself when attempting the real thing.
* It will help to exhale sharply or even yell when the kick lands. In martial arts this is called a kiai (pronounced "key-eye"). This tightens the core muscles of your trunk, and prevents your torso from absorbing forward motion (i.e., more energy is transferred to the door).
* If you have some practice with the side kick, you can hit harder by jumping up slightly before kicking. Don't just hop up into the air - instead, rapidly draw your back foot toward the foot that is kicking and jump just before they touch. Don't do this without a few practice runs, as it is easy to fall over if you do it improperly.
* Ramming the door with your shoulder can cause dislocations. Additionally, the impulse of the blow is lower, because your shoulder is soft and takes longer to deliver its force than your shoe, which is quite hard. Be sure to kick.


Warnings

* If you are not in good physical shape, do not use this method. It applies a great deal of force to the body, and should not be attempted by anyone with physical limitations.
* Never straighten your leg all the way when doing this type of kick. Make sure your leg is still bent when your foot hits the target. Straightening your leg all the way can cause serious damage to the knee.
* If you are in doubt as to whether you should try this, don't. If you want to build your confidence, consult a qualified martial arts teacher. You might find that it's good for more than just those times when you've locked yourself out of the house.
* Naturally, this will damage your door and/or its frame. If you aren't willing to deal with that, you need to find another way in.
* These instructions apply mainly to wooden doors without deadbolts. If there is a deadbolt, it takes a much harder impact and/or multiple strikes to smash the door frame. If the door and its frame are made of metal, you can forget about the whole thing, unless you happen to be Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, or Jackie Chan.

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I keep one of these in the garage.



knock knock.

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Fat Tony

This is how I do it:

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GreenGoblin95

i just do the lock bumping technique, my latin ninja skills come in handy. if you havent heard of this, look it up. it makes you think twice about how safe your house is when you are not there.

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atlanticblue00gt

THIS is how you kick down a door. :mw:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4VU4JxsuZb0

GreenGoblin95

heres a vid of lock bumping. you peeps need to be aware of this and try to protect yourselves.
lock bumping

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Bigsixoh

This is how to do it
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e19yUk-TWUs

Troy-Stangsaver

that was such a good moive to bad the 2nd one sucked.

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