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Is there any advice that i can get on how to write the movements of techniques without making the text Purple Prose?
Go and take some fencing lessons (remember there are different styles). If this costs too much get a friend to come and fight with you (as suggested above, acting it out helps considerably for some people. It helps me).
You might find sword fighting isn't quite like in the movies...and people fight dirty.
Go and take some fencing lessons (remember there are different styles). If this costs too much get a friend to come and fight with you (as suggested above, acting it out helps considerably for some people. It helps me).
You might find sword fighting isn't quite like in the movies...and people fight dirty.
I haven't found much to agree with most people that fence...
Fencing is a very specific style that, although like every martial art can have its principles and theories adapted, tends to favor specific weapons and clothing.
On the other hand, depending on exactly what you train, you might get the direct opposite impression. Different martial arts have different degrees of martial intent.
When I took kendo lessons, I was actually told to show my back to my opponent as long as possible after passing him, because the rules said he wasn't allowed to hit me there. In a real swordfight that would probably get you killed.
This is one of the reasons that I have some doubts about using modern martial arts as a go-by for a fight scene. The few times I've watched modern sport fencing, my impression is that combatants using those techniques in an actual fight would probably end up killing each other. Kendo seemed to have similar issues. All the weaponless fighting systems that I'm aware of have developed rules and practice methods so that when combatants spar they don't end up seriously injuring each other.
All of which is completely sensible and IRL I wouldn't have it any other way -- no one wants to get killed at karate practice. But it does pose problems for scenes where the characters really do want to kill each other...
This is one of the reasons that I have some doubts about using modern martial arts as a go-by for a fight scene. The few times I've watched modern sport fencing, my impression is that combatants using those techniques in an actual fight would probably end up killing each other. Kendo seemed to have similar issues. All the weaponless fighting systems that I'm aware of have developed rules and practice methods so that when combatants spar they don't end up seriously injuring each other.
All of which is completely sensible and IRL I wouldn't have it any other way -- no one wants to get killed at karate practice. But it does pose problems for scenes where the characters really do want to kill each other...
Any form of European fencing isn't going to be very useful as research for Japanese sword fighting. Although I agree that Épée is the more realistic of the three standard styles.Épée fencing actually isn't that unrealistic in a technical sense
Reminds me of my fencing club. All the new guys go with foil but fence like their using a saber. Always fun fencing against someone who only knows how to slashSaber, as I understand it, is kinda useless - far too removed from its origins to work with any real sword.
Any form of European fencing isn't going to be very useful as research for Japanese sword fighting.