I wanted to discuss the origin of "fancy" kicks with this thread. By "fancy" kicks, I want to group some of the more high risk kicks like high kicks, jump kicks, and jump spinning kicks into an easy to talk about catagory. My thought is that since these kicks are not very practical, I am very skeptical that they had a place on the battlefield or that they were even a central part of a real self defense scheme. If that is the case, then where do they come from and why do we practice them?