Door Kick Tutorial

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About

Door Kick Tutorial refers to a video tutorial "How to Properly Kick in a Door" in which a United States Special Forces veteran demonstrates the proper way to force a locked door open with a kick. Starting in February 2019, the video has been used in video remixes on YouTube.

Origin

On November 11th, 2016, YouTube channel Tactical Rifleman^[1] uploaded a video tutorial titled "How to Properly Kick in a Door | Breaching Techniques". In the video, retired USSF major Karl Erickson demonstrates the proper technique for kicking in a locked door. The video gained over 760,000 views in two and a half years.

Spread

On February 20th, 2019, YouTube^[2] user Dr.Phresh uploaded a remix based on the video, in which the footage was combined with a video of Twitter user @kingxaviara getting hit in the head by a door. ^[3] The video has since been removed due to a copyright claim (Streamable reupload shown below).^[8]

On the same day, the user^[4] posted the video to /r/youtubehaiku subreddit, where it gained over 6,800 upvotes in one week.

In the following days, more remixes utilizing the footage were posted on YouTube, with notable versions created by kmlkmljkl^[5] (shown below, left), nihonium^[6] (shown below, right) and Paul Wil slap u.^[7]