1.   Jump diagonally forwards with the front leg and pick the rear foot up for a high roundhouse kick.

2.   A leg, for example, can be employed quite differently to deliver a snap kick, a thrust kick, a roundhouse kick or a back kick.

3.   It may have sounded contrived, something Jean Claude Van Damme would say before a roundhouse kick to the solar plexis.

4.   Nursed on boxing and Hollywood, Americans imagine fights as choreography, a dance of elegant combinations, roundhouse kicks, clean knockouts.