The Jump Kick
I’m not an overly violent person, how can I be I’m a pretty skinny guy. So skinny my nickname of Beanz comes from a modified version of Beanpole…a nickname given to me by my brother. For some reason I decided if my brother was going to call me this for the rest of my life, I might as well make it cool…and to me in the early 90s adding a z to Bean seemed like the coolest option. Urban dictionary thank you for ruining that for me.
Anyways in my daily life and online life…I mention the jump kick a lot. So why not take this time to explain what I mean. Well I used to get in a few altercations as a kid, but I never intentionally started them. I have the knack of pushing people to either want to hit me or attempt to hit me with just a few words. My wife still asks me “why do you have to have an answer for everything” to which I reply “do you want me to answer that”….so I guess you see what I mean. Anyways I would get into a few altercations and I’ve always known how to defend myself from having a big brother, martial arts, and the occasional crotch kick. However I found that the root cause of these fights were my temper. Even though I never looked for a fight when my temper took control…it made it impossible for me to step away. The best advice I got for this was from my instructor who told me to forget about just counting in your head. Visually jump kick whoever is trying to start a fight with you while counting in order to keep your big mouth shut. One ….begin the run, two …bend your knees and leap, three….strike a cool jump kick pose, four….imagine the look of disbelief on the recipients face, five…connect. During this little routine I always seem to have a smile on my face from the visual part of this exercise, and I’ll be jump kicked it kept my mouth shut in situations afterwards 8 out of 10 times as a kid. So ok after reading that…maybe it is a little violent. But if it keeps me out of physical confrontations I can’t complain. So when you see me mention a jump kick here and there on this blog…plurk….or twitter don’t think of it as violent method of rendering an opponent unconscious. Think of it as a anger management technique or a form of meditation. Now I leave you with some funny jump kicks to help you with forming your own visualization.
