| From: | C J Tipton arkades@****.com |
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| Subject: | CC Martial Arts |
| Date: | Sat, 3 Jun 2000 19:07:34 -0500 |
And for the record, what I said was that their opinion was just an
opinion. And I included myself in that bracket earlier in the post. I've
been listening to BS'ing and bragging since before I started school. It's
just that mostly. Kinda' gets old.
Hell, they call them MARTIAL arts because most of them are rooted in a
MARTIAL application. They all have techniques
that are capable of killing or dismembering an opponent if properly
applied. But it isn't just about the body of techniques.
Has a great deal to do with the mindset required to actually finish an
opponent, not in a single move delivered by a master, but in a final blow
to a dazed but still standing opponent who you think would waste you if
the situation were reversed, and will certainly try if you give him the
chance to get up. Not everybody can make the decision to kill or be
killed.
I've lost fights. I've won fights. If a fight is about killing or wanting
to kill, I'd be dead Tig, not to mention being guilty of multiple
homicides. Fact is that in our world, fighting is more often than not
about two guys who had too many beers demonstrating physical dominance.
And my art is about Evasion,Control, AND Destruction. I don't wanna kill
anybody. I just want the guy to drop the bottle. He don't wanna kill me.
He just doesn't want to lose the fight his mouth got his butt into. True,
he might kill me with that bottle. But it isn't what either of us want.
which is why you wing a chair at him and hope the bouncers are their by
then. Cause they don't want anybody to kill anybody.
Shadowrun combats often do involve the desire of one or both parties to
kill, however.
I don't expect anybody to volunteer an "I killed them dead with my two
hands and a pipe wrench", either.
Not that living a life of martial dignity would allow it. But then again,
people where figuring out ways to kill one another
long before Chivalry, eastern or western either one.
BACK OT: Gotta agree with you about keeping it generic, though. Makes
story telling a fight a lot simpler and cuts down
on the munchkin factor immensely.
COWBOY(<tips his hat to TigdaPig>)
CJ
Arkades@****.com
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