The Sport of Acrobatic High Kicks, and the Man It Gives Relief From the Road

Sepak takraw, described as a Southeast Asian sport of power, precision and acrobatic high kicks, is the subject of a short film from Psyche directed by Habib Yazdi and Joseph Marra. It centres on Prayad, for whom the sport offers relief from the road.

That pairing is a good documentary premise: a game in which the body does something spectacular, set against a life the phrase "relief from the road" suggests is spent moving from one place to another. The appeal is the contrast — the road is repetition, the kicks are not.