Editing Kick (section)

===Butterfly===
[[Image:Butterfly Kick Samuel Lee.gif|right|thumb|200px|Wushu Butterfly kick (animated video)]]{{Further|Butterfly kick}}A butterfly kick is done by doing a large circular motion with both feet in succession, making the combatant airborne. There are many variations of this kick. The kick may look like a slanted aerial cartwheeland at the same time, the body spins horizontally in a circle. It begins as a jump with one leg while kicking with the other, then move the kicking leg down and the jumping leg up into a kick, landing with the first kicking leg, all while spinning. This kick involves arching the back when airborne to give a horizontal body with high angled legs striking horizontally. It may also resemble a jumping spin roundhouse kick (developed by James "Two Screens" Perkins) into a spinning [[hook kick]], all in one jump and one spin although the difference is that both legs remain in the air at the same time for a considerable amount of time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO2Skxg_GLQ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101003143120/http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=mO2Skxg_GLQ| archive-date=2010-10-03 | url-status=dead|title=Shaolin Kung Fu Stretches & Moves : Butterfly Kick in Shaolin Kung Fu |publisher=YouTube |date=2008-04-10 |access-date=2014-01-17}}</ref>

First practiced in Chinese martial arts, the butterfly kick, or "''xuan zi''", is widely viewed as ineffective for actual combat.  However, its original purpose was to evade an opponent's floor sweep and flip to the antagonist's exposed side or it may be used as a double aerial kick to an opponent standing off to the side. It is now widely used in demonstrative ''wushu'' forms (''taolu'') as a symbol of difficulty. Also note the similarity in execution when compared to an ice skating maneuver known as a [[Camel spin#Variations|flying camel spin]] (aka [[Dick Button|Button]] camel).