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Title: hand-to-hand combat


RayCaptain - September 4, 2007 01:41 AM (GMT)
ok let's say I have no weapons or am out of ammo. What do I use? Punch,kick,ect. :ph43r: Real nice and all but what about training in martial arts and having moves? I mean Jedi/Sith have special Force powers what about Bounty Hunters,Rebels,Clone Troopers,and others :lol:

Jin-ho - September 4, 2007 11:41 AM (GMT)
Go with whatever makes sense, imho. Logically, a politician is no match for a commando or even a Bounty Hunter in most cases, but you can't expect people wearing full Mandalorian to suddenly act like ninjas either. Roundhousing people works so much better in light armor after all ^^;

Same with Jedi and Sith. Afaik, there is one set of unarmed combat techniques (Teräs Käsi) which seems to be known to several Jedi (Darth Maul, Plo Kloon) and Force Sensitives (Followers of Palawa), though it seems it was far from common practise.

Basically, i'd say this works the same way as regular training. Find someone who knows the combat arts that you can train under (boxing and simpler ' straight up' styles being fairly common amongst Mandalorians) and... well, train. Harder stuff like the aforementioned Teräs Käsi, or other fighting styles would be harder though, and might involve permission from above in the form of an Admin-controlled NPC.

Also -- and this is more of a personal peeve of mine -- keep in mind that no one can master a style in two days, so to speak. You start out learning the basics, and move on from there. For example, the (existing) fighting style Amyante (Jin-ho's cousin) is studying under is capable of breaking bones and disrupting the body's electrical system, and trying to use similar techniques without proper knowledge of the basics... Might end up with rather heavy injuries, not necessarily on your opponent.

Hope this helped ^^;




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