Name: Inshō-tekina kaminari no ashi kenpo (striking feet of the lightning style)
Type: Taijutsu
Rank: A
Type: Kicking techniques, weights
Description: This style centers entirely on the legs, the hands are only used to grab on to things for leverage or for handstands, the style focuses on training the power, flexibility, and agility of the legs as weapons and is usually coupled with heavy metallic boots and armor on the legs feet and knees
Power: The power of the kicks is considered the strongest out of all of the cloud villages kicks able to splinter thick bodies of wood and break large stones easily, this power would normally damage the joints or ligaments of the legs meaning that extensive training with those areas must have occurred to be able to use the armored weights in conjunction with the kicks. In rare cases it has even been said that the user can leave footprints on a steel plate. The standard for A rank is being able to hold and balance a one hundred and eight pound weight on each leg one leg at a time with the weighted armor on for thirty minutes.
Speed: The users own running speed is beyond admirable as they seem able to run and kick at speeds faster than even a trained eye can follow very easily giving the cloud ninjas reputation as “deadly flashes” some credit almost able to mimic the body flicker technique with the power of their legs, minimizing the number of steps to the untrained eye but really kicking the ground many times at instantaneously to travel at higher speeds as if they can keep up with lightning itself.
Flexibility: The users legs can be like noodles at when they need them to be doing full splits is absolutely no problem to a user of this style, even able to “wind up” kicks like some taijutsu users can wind up a punch and effectively use their legs in whip like movements with precision and speed even making that infamous cracking noise
Vertical leap: Though ninjas are already known for their jumping users of this style has surpassed the average ninja by far, able to clear the height of a tree that most ninja would jump to the branches of and jump longer distances than most clearing with one jump what it might take others six or seven, the user is able to kick about fourteen times before hitting the ground with a weighted jump
Weights: at A rank the armored weights are four hundred pounds total with the user able to fight and run with out any strain, once these are removed the user is able to increase their abilities ten fold becoming a blur of insanely destructive kicks, often victims are struck before they realize what has happened.