{"id":24645,"date":"2019-06-08T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24645"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T18:09:43","slug":"in-case-you-have-to-round-kick-zdeno-chara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/08\/in-case-you-have-to-round-kick-zdeno-chara\/","title":{"rendered":"In Case You Have To Round Kick Zdeno Chara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ad for a smoothie shows a woman throwing a round kick (or a whip\/hook kick, depending upon the way she swung her leg) way above her head:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/whipkick.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who she would kick that would be that tall.  Zdeno Chara, the 6&#8242; 9&#8243; defenseman for the Boston Bruins?<\/p>\n<p>One of the knocks on tae kwon do is that its focus on forms and pretty kicks doesn&#8217;t have real-world applications.  However, kicks like this do demonstrate flexibility and body control which come in handy when you kick like that a little lower.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: The school where I study martial arts blends tae kwon do kicking in with other martial arts.  And although I can round kick head high, I cannot round kick (or whip\/hook kick) Zdeno Chara in the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ad for a smoothie shows a woman throwing a round kick (or a whip\/hook kick, depending upon the way she swung her leg) way above her head: I don&#8217;t know who she would kick that would be that tall. Zdeno Chara, the 6&#8242; 9&#8243; defenseman for the Boston Bruins? One of the knocks on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertisements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24646,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions\/24646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}