No Shadow Kick
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The no shadow kick (Chinese: 無影腳; pinyin: wúyǐngjiǎo) is a martial arts technique associated with the martial arts master Wong Fei Hung. Said to be so fast that it casts no shadow, the no shadow kick actually involves launching a fast, swift front kick while an opponent's attention is drawn elsewhere, usually by keeping his arms occupied.
The traditional Chinese long robe offers an additional way to execute the no shadow kick. By flipping the front of one's robe towards one's opponent, his view of the kick underneath is obscured.
While widely exaggerated by Jet Li's Wong Fei Hung in the Once Upon a Time in China movie series as a flurry of aerial kicks, you can actually see a glimpse of the real kick, when Jet Li's character kicks his student, Butcher Lam as a reprimand, in one of the scenes of the first movie in the series.
