Fly like a butterfly and sting like a bee,

 I just saw this Chinese kicking video on YouTube demonstrating a very unique kick, realizing I have seen it before in other arts and my own students abilities.

나비처럼 날아서 벌처럼 쏘랬더니 진짜 날아버리는 무술... | 고수를 찾아서 2024 신년특집
Fly like a butterfly and sting like a bee, and you'll actually fly... | Finding the Master 2024 New Year Special  Chinese version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YB9nyFY-1o

 

I first saw it when I purchased the Draeger and Smith "Asian Fighting Arts"  (later titled "Comprehensive Fight Arts") early in 1973, years prior to beginning my own Isshinryu studies. I found it very interesting, especially the Burmese technique of running up an opponents body prior to kicking them.
Of course when I later studied Isshinryu this technique was not part of my studies.

Tris Sutrisno

Later I experienced this when Tristan Sutrisno used his own Indonesian version to jump me to then stand atop my shoulders to then jump off them and flip a kick to my head then land lightly before me with a grin on his face.
A number of years later when he was giving a clinic to my students he performed a version of this kick (abet somewhat differently), I immediately saw what he had done to me, abet I was a larger more stabler opponent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwVtKKd9L6c

When I read the translation of Itoman's book, his description of Triangle Flying made me think this could be an older Okinawan version.

Itoman's Triangle Flying ? Revisited

https://isshin-concentration.blogspot.com/2024/10/itomans-triangle-flying-revisited.html

One of my students, Young Lee, after viewing too many Kung Fu movies worked out his own version, later to teach it to one of my other students. At the time seeing his demonstration of the kick for the first time, I named it the Grin,  from the expression on his face.
https://isshin-concentration.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-grin.html

Of course using such techniques was always way beyond my capabilities. That did not mean I was defenseless, I always had myriad of possible responses. Still, if the situation allows it permits maximum unpredictability.