Kick Lines

At my school we do a Christmas kick every year in December, a kick line, at one of the basketball games. We do it for fundraising. We go around the school and students can pay to guess how many kicks are in our kick routine. If they win they can get fifty dollars in cash. It's a fun way to get students involved and to get money for the fundraiser.

A kick line, if you don't know what it is, is a series of kicks performed by a group. There are low, medium, and high kicks. You learn a kick line the same you would any other dance,  counting it with eight counts. The goal is to get each person to look the same and have the same height of kicks so the routine is precise and  together. A kick like depends a lot on the height of the ones performing it. If people are different heights and they're standing right next to each other then their kicks are not going to match. Even if they're kicking at the same height proportional to their bodies, if ones tall and the other is short then it won't look together and then you will notice it in the routine and throughout the performance. Also Height is really important when hooking on together in the kick line because peoples are different lengths. So when a short person is standing next to a taller person and their arms are different lengths  and they connect arms in the line, it makes it hard to  stay together because each other's arms are not laying correctly over each other's.  We're not a professional  kick line team but that's why professional teams care a lot about the height of the individual because it makes the routine look more together and it's easier to make it look more precise. And you don't have all these little problems you have to deal with if you're all the same height.