CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
How can someone best figure out or learn how to properly portray differing fight styles in text?
Specifically when it seems like both fighters are perhaps using different styles
One doing Krav Maga, the other doing Judo or something else?
Because TBH, most of the books I read with melee combat don't seem to explain what their characters are actually using and mostly seem to just be using a "very practical, simple and generic" sort of martial art with things like feints and not much talk on the punches or types of attacks being much different from one another
And yeah, I think I've seen vids calling lots of taekwondo or karate users "actors" who need their students to "cooperate" or otherwise they get the shit beaten out of them by random brawlers.
How would you best also quickly learn how to write these sorts of fight scenes? Authors/Artists who seem to actually know/study martial arts seem to make it so that both armed and unarmed fights are a constant test of wits or deciding which move is the best to take and changing nearly on the fly
Just so you know, this was sort of a result of me liking Kengan Asura/Omega, somehow never knew feints were a thing until then
Specifically when it seems like both fighters are perhaps using different styles
One doing Krav Maga, the other doing Judo or something else?
Because TBH, most of the books I read with melee combat don't seem to explain what their characters are actually using and mostly seem to just be using a "very practical, simple and generic" sort of martial art with things like feints and not much talk on the punches or types of attacks being much different from one another
And yeah, I think I've seen vids calling lots of taekwondo or karate users "actors" who need their students to "cooperate" or otherwise they get the shit beaten out of them by random brawlers.
How would you best also quickly learn how to write these sorts of fight scenes? Authors/Artists who seem to actually know/study martial arts seem to make it so that both armed and unarmed fights are a constant test of wits or deciding which move is the best to take and changing nearly on the fly
Just so you know, this was sort of a result of me liking Kengan Asura/Omega, somehow never knew feints were a thing until then
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