Sentence examples for straight kick from inspiring English sources

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The master's job is to give these new students a straight kick, or bencao (blessing), which inevitably results in the amateur's falling to the floor.

I don't care too much for genres, so there are dub echoes, jazz phrasings, straight kick drums, and strange electronica elements everywhere.

Minnesota responded with a touchdown (worth 4 points under 1896 rules), but the score came at the far corner of the field where a straight kick for the goal after touchdown (worth 2 points) was impossible.

As such, "her fights were choreographed carefully to imitate the moves of a Broadway showgirl through the use of a straight kick to her opponent's face rather than the type of kick a martial artist would use".

There's hardly a straight kick drum here—instead, it stutters and disappears, so the 4/4 momentum is mostly pinned down by snares, hi-hats, and a triangle jingle.

It's slightly harder than doing a straight kick all the way, but with practice, it will become easy.

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Trailing by 38 points midway through the final quarter, the Power kicked five quick goals to get the margin back to within two straight kicks.

Straight kicks refer to the position when you bring your leg up to the required height, but keeping them straight all the way.

When kicking: straight kicks may use the ball of the foot or the heel, keep your toes back or they might be damaged; side kicks always use the blade of your foot or the heel; ax kicks always strike with the heel (but this is an uncommon kick for most); round-house kicks may strike with the shin, top or ball of the foot.

Competitors earned one point for a straight body kick, two for a spinning body kick, three for a straight head kick, and four for a spinning head kick.

Yet he can, with a straight face, kick off his own run for president by denouncing the "Washington machine" and calling for people to "rise up" against it.

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