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Originally Posted by Crossroad Press
It's right up there for me with lines like (I actually saw this in a book). "He kicked it with his foot." How else, pray tell, could he kick it?
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Shin kick. Comes in from the side in a cut/chop motion, and hits it's target with the edge of the shin bone. Used mainly at short range and against your opponent's lower leg or knee. Bone is hard, and it takes very little force to hit hard with it, so it tends to hurt quite a bit.
Though I do agree with you that unless you are writing a detailed description of a fight involving at least one trained martial artist, there is no need to specify, as 99% of readers will make the same assumption you made. Unless of course you want to be really nitpicky and say that the body part that kicks is actually the leg, and the foot is merely the part of the leg that connects when you kick someone or something.
