December 07th, 2012

Kym has been teaching people how to do round kicks in her martial arts classes recently. As easy as they may look, there are small things you need to do, for those kicks to be done properly. One of the most important is to pivot the foot you're standing on away from the kick. Kym has been drilling this into her students every class for three weeks. It drives her nuts when that foot doesn't pivot, and every student knows it, because she never shuts up about it.

Yesterday, however, she was watching Naruto with her cousin. Naruto is about ninjas, and they, of course, have martial arts. The character on the screen (Rock Lee) was doing round kicks. Kym didn't like this. Not because she doesn't like round kicks, but because she had to resist the urge to say 'you'll blow out your knee if you keep doing it that way! Why are you doing it that way? Why did the artists make you do it that way? Didn't they know how to do a round kick right?' It was ridiculous. Any normal person would have messed up their knees and probably needed surgery to fix it. And why on earth did they have an amazing character do something that should have messed him up so bad? I know a student that blew out their knee doing them that way! (She ranted in her head for quite a while about this.)

He wasn't pivoting his foot.