- published: 06 Oct 2015
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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.
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.
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