Kick


A kick is a physical strike using the foot, leg, or knee (the latter is also known as a knee strike). This type of attack is used frequently by hooved animals as well as humans in the context of stand-up fighting. Kicks play a significant role in many forms of martial arts, such as savate, Combat Hopak, taekwondo, sikaran, karate, Pankration, Kung fu, Vovinam, kickboxing, Muay Thai, capoeira, silat, and kalaripayattu.

Kicking is also prominent from its use in many sports, especially those called football. The best known of these sports is association football, also known as soccer.

History

The English verb to kick appears only in the late 14th century, apparently as a loan from Old Norse, originally in the sense of a hooved animal delivering strikes with his hind legs; the oldest use is Biblical.

Kicks as an act of human aggression have likely existed worldwide since prehistory. However, high kicks, aiming above the waist or to the head appear to have originated from Asian martial arts. Such kicks were introduced to the west in the 19th century with early hybrid martial arts inspired by Asian styles such as Bartitsu and Savate. Practice of high kicks became more universal in the second half of the 20th century with the more widespread development of hybrid styles such as kickboxing and eventually mixed martial arts.

Kick (disambiguation)

A kick is an attack using a foot, knee or leg.

Kick, Kicks, or Kicking or The Kick may also refer to:

Kicks

In dancing

  • Kick (dance move), a dance move
  • Kick (breakdance move), a move akin to a head stand
  • In sports

  • Kick (football), an action used in American football
  • Kick (snooker), or kick shot, a type of shot in the game snooker
  • Kick (association football), an action used in soccer
  • Soccer kick, a wrestling attack
  • Kick, an attack in professional wrestling
  • Recoil

  • Kick, the recoil of a firearm
  • Kick, an attempt by an oil well being drilled to blow out
  • Kick, a term for hypnic jerk which is the sensation you feel when you are asleep that you fell or slipped on something
  • Medicine

  • KICKS - Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus inflammatory cytokine syndrome.
  • Places

  • Kicking, Austria (disambiguation)
  • People

  • Kick Gurry (born 1978), Australian actor
  • Film, television and games

  • Kick (1999 film), a film directed by Lynda Heys
  • Kick (2009 film), a Tollywood film starring Ravi Teja and Illeana D'Cruz
  • Kicks (2009 film), a British film starring Kerrie Hayes and Nichola Burley
  • Kicking (Dunkelsteinerwald)

    Kicking is a settlement in the municipality of Dunkelsteinerwald in Melk District, Lower Austria in northeastern Austria.

    References

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Kicking

    by: Osi

    Four times
    Last night
    I was on the visitor's side
    And I know you felt it
    Deep end
    Three A.M.
    And if it rings again
    I think I'm gonna break it
    Again again
    Don't start telling me
    Love is a symphony
    Point that phone at the floor
    Sure
    You can fire anyone else in our neighbourhood
    Haven't we've been through this before?
    That's my bedroom door you're kickin'
    Kickin'
    Kickin'
    Kickin'
    For star sanity
    Trapped on a memory
    Trapped under water and coal
    We drift like refugees
    Tossed 'round-roughly
    And scream at the border control
    It's easy
    Just start kickin'
    Kickin'
    Kickin'
    Kickin'
    Don't start telling me love is a symphony
    Don't start telling me love is a symphony
    Don't start telling me love is a symphony




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