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Post by Solaris on Apr 1, 2013 20:48:42 GMT -5
This isn't a sticky, just a general sounding-out to sate my curiosity.
How experienced and knowledgable are y'all about hand-to-hand fighting in the real world? It's generally the trickiest to write melee (it's much harder to screw up writing a gunfight, but that's not to say it's easier to write well), being that it's hard to write what you don't know. Most people, I've found, don't really know how to fight.
(And a lot of people that kind of know how to fight, they seem to enjoy long, over-complicated, and over-technical explanations of their every move and maneuver that really breaks up the flow of the post.)
This might have come up because of a certain RP. *Cough*
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Netherworld
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Post by Netherworld on Apr 3, 2013 15:55:38 GMT -5
I dunno about that particular RP, but I'm pretty sure in me foightin' skills ;P I do hand-to-hand ringen (that'd be the wrestling typical of middle and late medieval ages in Europe - in "Germany", that is.) Then there's the bastard sword and the messer. Also, military saber and dagger fighting. That's about as much as my melee skill covers, but I'm starting with canne-de-combat in a couple of weeks, so we'll see how that goes.^^
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Post by Solaris on Apr 5, 2013 12:45:56 GMT -5
The 'certain RP' thing is me teasing Padmé. She's terrible at confrontation of all sorts, but it's fun to poke fun at her for it.
My hand-to-hand expertise is strictly of the practical sort - the Army done taught me how to choke people out and break their arms and stuff, as well as learning how to use a knife in a rather final manner. There's some old-fashioned knuckle-dusting in there, too. Sure, they say striking isn't that effective, but I find it has its uses.
Well, okay. Almost all of it's practical - I learned some sword-and-board, bastard sword, and polearm with the SCA, and practiced some Tae Kwon Do many more years ago than I care to count.
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Padmé
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Post by Padmé on Apr 5, 2013 19:08:00 GMT -5
Ha! Someone rather enjoys teasing me.
Any who, I took Karate way back when. Aside from that I know diddly squat 'bout the topic at hand. Why, can't you tell by my posts?
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Netherworld
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Post by Netherworld on Apr 6, 2013 11:52:55 GMT -5
...'bout the topic at hand. ... I see what you did there.
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Post by Solaris on Apr 6, 2013 21:10:56 GMT -5
Ha! Someone rather enjoys teasing me. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. Any who, I took Karate way back when. Just like you used to get in fights in school, right? Bwahahahahaa.
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