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24 sectionsContents
- History
- Applications
- Practicality of high kicks
- Basic kicks
- Roundhouse
- Front
- Back
- Advanced kicks
- Axe
- Butterfly
- Calf
- Crescent
- Hook{{anchor|Hook kick}}
- L
- Reverse roundhouse/wheel
- Flying
- Showtime
- Scissor
- Spinning heel
- Vertical (thrust, push, and side)
- Multiple/machine gun
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|alt=Two martial artists in gis on a mat, with one kicking the other in the head|Kicking in a taekwondo match
A kick is a physical strike using the leg, in unison usually with an area of the knee or lower using the foot, heel, tibia (shin), ball of the foot, blade of the foot, toes 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 capoeira, kalaripayattu, karate, kickboxing, kung fu, wing chun, MMA, Muay Thai, pankration, pradal serey, savate, sikaran, silat, taekwondo, vovinam, and Yaw-Yan. Kicks are a universal act of aggression among humans.