From: | lutra@******.com (Eve Forward) |
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Subject: | Martial Arts (forwarded) |
Date: | Mon, 30 Oct 1995 08:45:37 -0800 |
his mailer is giving him trouble.
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>On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Sebastian Wiers wrote:
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>Talking of which, has anyone got any ideas on extra special moves for
>those martial arts -I was hoping each would have a special advantage and
>3 special moves.
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>Any other comments?
Martial Arts aren't constructed on the 'special advantage and 3 special
moves' of coin-op arcade games or movies. Each martial art has areas that
it concentrates on and a style of techniques that is difficult to
understand without studying the art in some detail. Even then, it might be
easy to talk about Tae Kwon Do or Muay Thai specializing in kicks without
really understanding what this entails. Heck, even different kwans or
schools of Tea Kwon Do have different ways of delivering the same kick!
And then there are styles like Jujitsu (any of several dozen schools) or
Hapkido that do practically everything. Or styles like Capeoira or Aikido
that do particular things well and don't worry about the other things.
Personally, I'd go with the specific techniques as given in the Shadowrun
rule book. For example:
Front Strike Throw (Kata-Tori Irimi Nage):
This technique is used to counterattack an attack. Success renders opponent
on the ground for (Opponents' Body)M Stun and in position for an arm pin,
such as Ikkyo Ude-Osae or Yonkyo Tekubi-Osae.
The above technique is an Aikido one. The Hapkido variant would also
subject the opponent to a knife hand to the neck and probably inflict
damage to the neck (as the striking knife-hand then wraps around the neck
for a dropping shoulder throw), at the cost of increased difficulty. Since
the same techniques can be interpreted differently for each martial art,
there's no practical way of limiting a martial art to an advantage and 3
special moves.
Just my comments. ;-)
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