So how do you fight?

[Doc ock rokc]

Originally Posted by Overcast

I can appreciate a knowledge of weapons, though I've always wondered exactly how the mechanics of using a weapon underhanded affected your using in comparison to the overhand. I've always been taught that in any impact that I should be aiming past my opponent by quite a bit so I entail the maximum force where I end up putting it and when I think of wielding anything but a blade underhanded I get a very similar result of something reduced in comparison to if I were swinging like a bat.

The Underhanded affect power comes from the full assertion from your body. You put both your wight and momentum and strength behind the blade/staff However It is robed of reach when doing so. the force is more aimed directly at the opponent in question then anything else. You have to think of it as your Fist with a curve. You are more with your blade underhanded then you are overhanded. However it isn't without downsides. Defense is strong on the sides but weak against stabs and high/low attacks. your attacks are consuming and predictable however blocking them would throw people off. However most styles are usually done so that they can switch to overhand when needed.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Doc ock rokc

The Underhanded affect power comes from the full assertion from your body. You put both your wight and momentum and strength behind the blade/staff However It is robed of reach when doing so. the force is more aimed directly at the opponent in question then anything else. You have to think of it as your Fist with a curve. You are more with your blade underhanded then you are overhanded. However it isn't without downsides. Defense is strong on the sides but weak against stabs and high/low attacks. your attacks are consuming and predictable however blocking them would throw people off. However most styles are usually done so that they can switch to overhand when needed.

On top of that, basic staff stance holding it at the middle makes it really easy to do an underhanded strike. Kind of the point of holding it that way, really. You use both ends. It lets you do a comfortable overhand strike with either a swing or a thrust and then lets you easily shift into a powerful underhand strike with the other end.

[Seil]

I'm skipping homework in favor of Cracked and I found this.

[Hatake Kakashi]

I use Kung Fu San Soo. It's what I learned many, many, MANY moons ago, and to date, I've found no method to be more effective.

However, I've recently stumbled upon a Choy Li Fut school that teaches "Drunken Boxing" forms to their more advanced students. I may just take that up.

[Buddha Fett]

In the few fights I've gotten into, I tend to favour "smooth talk them into letting their guard down, then sucker-punch them with whatever I've got to hand."

It's not exactly refined, but it got the job done.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Defensive boxing/kick boxing, I rely entirely on counters and quick foot work. As going offensive has never worked out well for me.

Kendo/finching whenever I have a sturdy long object in hand at the time.

[Azisien]

I challenge them to a pokebattle or a match of SC2, whichever they prefer really as I come prepared for both at any time.


If that doesn't work I shoot them, usually in the chest because it's the easiest place to hit.

[Overcast]

I've always had some interest in drunken boxing, but I don't know if I'd ever take to using it as anything other than recreational exercise. A bit like breakdancing I figure I'd have more fun choreographing movements than I might get actually using it to fight.

A sucker punch is always a good thing, especially against men. After all all it takes is one solid movement to hit at the very heart of his warrior's spirit. If you catch my drift.

I can understand being crap at offense, I only really do well in defensive grappling. So I lie back and wait for them to come to me, or try to get them to have them pull me to a compromising situation that actually enters my area of influence. But actually going forward and tackling or tossing folks is far more difficult than picking someone apart on the ground.

And yeah, if you are going to go so far as shoot someone it has likely escalated to something beyond stepping off from. May as well hit the cage full of all their important internal organs.

[Raptacular Haberdasher]

I fight like I rhyme: flawless and fast.
A punch to the face and my foes won't last.

[Hanuman]

An update on my learning progression:

I was speaking with one of my teachers (40+ years in depth tai chi) and I noticed a tiny book nestled within all of the secret tomes of picture books she collects to teach posture theory and body mechanics, this book clearly said CAPOEIRA.

I commented on it, this to me was a very very strange thing to see on her shelves as almost all forms of dance are completely opposed to forms of grounding and base martial strength that they teach, to exist without stances or "moves".

When it got right down to it, she said that most people teach it incorrectly and that over time it's lost most of it's true root, similar to how tai chi also drifted, but that capoeira is essentially tai chi in 3 dimensions. Then my head exploded.

So I did some research, and luckily for me there are dozens of schools in my area, Vancouver is one of the best places to learn it, and because of that we have 40+ year capoeira masters.

After research in my circles I pulled out Angola, which is one of the base roots of Capoeira, if you personally modify it then it becomes akin to tai chi.

Voila, respect for Capoeira