Anyone here really familiar with kickline? The high school dance team I coach has always done a few kicklines during their season, and for the last 2 years I've been just working on getting the basics corrected with them. This year we're working on some really fun kick stuff, now that they can correctly execute basic technique (aka I don't have to say point your toes! don't hang on your neighbor! every single time!) I did plenty of kickline on my college dance team, but it's been a few years, and I can't remember much of anything fun, or any terminology we used! (aside from straight kicks, around the world, and progressions) I tried to google this, but the only thing I found was some COA definitions. Any creative kick suggestions or someplace I can find terminology to jog my memory?

Thanks all!

Just for Kix has some good tutorials on youtube.. last i checked there were probably a dozen videos showing specific kick variations.. look for the user jfkvideos - those are the best ones I've found.

Is your progression low-low,level-level,high-high? If so, I've called those graduated. There are fan kicks...stationary as well as traveling, which can look very visually effective. Just for Kix does have a video on youtube demonstrating these. They also demonstrate a "half fan" but I personally find those just looking like "wannabe fans" but that is just me.

Another kick I know is called a envelope and that is a high kick and as you bring it down your legs goes into a closed hook (or passe) with head down, head level when you point it low and then bring it together. So then it's (1) prep (2)high kick (3)hook/passe head down (4)head level point low (5)together.

Twist kicks...(1) twist right (2) twist left (3) prep in center (4)R high kick (5)twist left (6) twist right (7) prep in center (8) L high kick.

I've done "jumping jacks"...basically prep, open, prep, kick right and then repeat to the left. I've seen it done with a crossing of the feet.

I really hope I'm making sense? :/ Kick dances are always about precision and creativity. Revamping a traditional kick is always the trick in kick routines. So is awesome formation changes...I don't know how big your team is or what you have to work with but I wish you luck!

Around the world kicks- so start Side R, Diag R, Front R, Front L, Diag L, Side L

Play with formations! Very visually pleasing in kicklines. You can go from one line into multiple lines or vice versa. You can go into a circle, diagonal lines, etc. Even doing simple kicks, these formations look awesome and are quite difficult because you are still kicking and have to maintain your straight line.

Our high school pom team always did fankicks with a hop traveling in a circle. (The line was a closed circle with the dancers facing out). This looks great when done well.

I had a group kick to the side and catch each others legs, then they pushed the legs out and went into the splits in a ripple (stole the idea from another line I saw.)