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Discussion
Main - Rune Quest
RE: martial arts
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Author:
Peter Beirne
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Time:
13.02.2003 18:20
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Text:
> > The reason martial arts applies to fists and kicks and
> not
> > other weapons is that a person relies on their body by
> > instinct. Martial arts allows the person to look at the
> > body as a weapon. With weapon skills, you are already
> > doing that. The weapon skills is already the "martial
> art"
> > of the weapon.
>
> So "Fist", "Kick", "Grapple", (the natural weapons) isn't
> the martial art of unarmed combat? Why differ between
> fistskill and for instance the maulskill? Therefore I'm for
> either disposing of the MA skill entirely, or find an
> useful aspect for it to cover.
> > In response to Bjorn's comment:
> > Parrying is not all deflection. Some is blocking, some
> is
> > misdirection.
The distinction is the approach. The difference in my mind is using martial arts makes the hands and feet weapons. It is similar to a person using a sword as a club. You may be really good with the club, but you won't be using the weapon effective. The martial art of the sword allows you to do this.
>
> Isn't misdirection and deflection the same thing? And
> blocking is really not the preferred defencive action
> acording to my experience.
>
A deflection would be a hanging parry in which the weapon being parried is deflected by its own momentum. A flechette and beat parry is a misdirection in which the parry weapon applies force to change the direction.
As for blocking - it depends on weapon use. A cross parry can be very effective. If you are using a rapier and main guache against a maul - by using a cross parry (combineing both weapons to block - you stop the maul - which requires the maul weilder to have to get the weapon going again. A good maul weilder (Especially the quarterstaff) can use a deflection to move into the next attack without losing momentum.
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