Not a Kung-Fu Kick

No kung-fu kicking , karate kicking or taekwondo kicking either

I don't know near yous as well as your thought on this but personally I'm getting pretty ill as well as tired of reading near how kicks from karate , taekwondo , kung-fu as well as other martial arts are said to endure inwards broad spread use.

It somehow seems every Tom , Dick as well as Harry knows how to execute martial arts agency kicks inwards diverse sport events every bit good every bit inwards street type brawls.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 distich of recent cases: First yous accept the highly publicized NFL situation where a Pittsburg Steelers' broad receiver allegedly "kung fu kicked"a punter inwards the facial expression upwards on a kicking return. You tin plough over the sack bet your concluding dollar that damage such every bit karate kicking accept been used near the incident too...

Then there's a recent word brief from the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland , where a human being has been convicted of murder later he was establish guilty of "karate kicking" a homeless human being to decease dorsum inwards 2013.

What intrigues me the most is how these halfwit sensational-seeking reporters as well as media outlets seems to endure such experts inwards martial arts that they tin plough over the sack distinguish a karate kicking from a kung-fu kicking or a taekwondo agency kicking - or fifty-fifty a Muay Thai kicking - exterior of preparation or strict competition. I dare nation these folks accept to endure good! One kicking as well as they tin plough over the sack directly nation "Yes folks , this is a karate kicking for sure!"

Kung Fu agency kicking - Image from Flickr.com

Sure at that spot are instances where yous tin plough over the sack endure pretty for sure near the origin. When Swedish soccer striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic does i of his many acrobatic kicks as well as moves on the plain , yous tin plough over the sack safely add together taekwondo to that - later all he has a background from that martial art.

As for the vast bulk of the rest... forget near it! It's simply depression degree journalism as well as easy-to-spot attempts to generate clicks through attention-grabbing headlines when a kicking province of affairs is tied to the martial arts.

Please stick to the facts. When someone haven't trained a a detail fine art for a lengthy menses of fourth dimension - it is simply a kicking as well as it has zippo to create alongside whatever detail martial art. Rant over...

Eric Cantona's so-called Kung-Fu kick

As nosotros all tin plough over the sack encounter , this infamous province of affairs from 1995 inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland is definitely a kung fu kick... he is flight isn't he?