Erfworld is chock full of culture references. Boggles my mind that they can fit so many into such a (currently) small webcomic. If I had more time, more energy, and more knowledge of pop culture, I'd probably attempt a comprehensive and running list. Unfortunately I don't have that sort of motivation, mainly because the task seems more than I could handle. But I didn't want to make a thread just to ask one little question, so I figured I'd make a generic thread that maybe others could add on to and ask my question within it.

My question comes from Page 25, when Ansom's incursion group ran into Stanley's spidews. Dora whacks a spidew and yells "Kiai!", which (from what I've been taught) comes from the martial art Aikido and is a scream which is supposed to disrupt an opponents stability. It's essentially an extention of ones ki using a verbal method rather than physical. Is this indeed what she was doing, or did whomever decided on it simply find it online or hear of it from somewhere?