Post by Sosuke Igarashi on Aug 6, 2008 3:24:51 GMT -5
Please keep in mind these are only unarmed fighting styles originating from China and Japan. You may start off knowing ONE, but it must be explained in your history. Otherwise, you must learn them RP-wise.
Pa Kua Kwon: A Chinese martial art which turns each limb of your body into a weapon. Going up against a user of this style is a deadly mistake unless you have been trained in some sort of martial art. It focuses on heavy strikes supported by momentum and quick bursts of speed.
Geumgangtu: A martial art that focuses on powerful, speedy strikes using the shoulders, back, elbows, and palms. Kicks are also included but the main focus of this style is to break bones and cripple the opponent with quick, strong attacks.
Koroshu: A military-developed style, focused to be the last resort of any soldier whom had lost his weapon. Koroshu focuses on exterior damage through punches and rotational kicks, making it's attacks painful even when blocked. It also incorporates shoulder rams designed to disarm opponents.
Baguazhang: A defensive style designed to never start a fight but to end one. Baguazhang's attacks and disciplines are centered around the movement of an opponent. It is designed as a style that incorporates counter-attacking above all else. It is a fluid, graceful style that turns an opponent's physical strength against them.
Shaolin: Shaolin Kung Fu is an extremely powerful martial art taught exclusively to Shaolin Monks. Therefore, anyone who is NOT a monk cannot start with this style, and must become one to learn it. It is focused around quick, surprising attacks made to not kill but cripple an opponent in just a few blows. Palm strikes, full-force fist strikes and chained kicks are all principles.
Drunken Boxing: Drunken Boxing is an odd style. Best known and used by Shinu Ortanzu. It is actually best used when someone is, well, drunk. To this end, practitioners of the style often carry around bottles of extremely potent alcohol to intoxicate themselves should a fight arise. Drunken Boxing is known for it's extremely powerful and unpredictable attacks. With drunken strength accompanying each blow and every blow more confusing than the last, this is truly a deadly style to go up against. Drunken Boxing mimics the stumbling of a drunkard, making every attack unpredictable. With each bottle of alcohol consumed, the user becomes more and more unpredictable.
Karate: Literally translated to empty hand, this is a fluid mix of Chinese and Japanese martial arts into one splendid form. Karate is focused around striking with no real grappling involved. Each part of each limb is used in some fashion or another; legs, knees, elbows, wrists, hands, fists, feet. All of them are used in delivering powerful strikes. This is essentially a style that is not very difficult to learn, yet is less sophisticated than others.
Jeet Kun Do: Literally ''Way of the Intercepting Fist''. This style is focused morely on flow than most other styles out there. Interception is a great term for it, as it focuses on lightning-quick strikes that interrupt an opponent's attack before it can connect. An aggressive style yet one that can counter also, yet not to the extent of Baguazhang.
Mao Gong: A style that mimics the agility and quickness of a Cat. This style is focused on quick and weak chained strikes that focus on flurries, spins, and rotations. Slides are also incorporated. This style is fast and deceptive, yet the strikes practiced are very weak and are of no use unless chained together into a combination.
Murekwon: Translated to Bear Style Kung Fu, Murekwon practitioners are a force to be reckoned with due to strength alone. A true counterpart to Mao Gong, Murekwon focuses on incredibly strong punches honed by freakish physical strength and momentum. A few strikes are enough to make an opponent feel true pain, yet kicks are not incorporated, strictly Ax kicks are however. Strikes do not need to be linked up to be effective. A punch from a Murekwon user backed by momentum and incredible strength can fracture bones.
Taekkyon: A Korean martial art which some consider a ''true'' version of Taekwondo. This style is known for it's wide variety of kicks that involve rotation, spinning, momentum, and jumping. Taekkyon users are extremely flawed when it comes to punches, and therefore are at about civilian level to that extent. As far as kicks go, however, they leave most other styles in the dust.
Street Fighting: A formless civilian ''style''. Everyone knows how to Street Fight, and there are many ways to do it. It's just focused on taking someone down through any means possible. A Street Fighter is at an extreme disadvantage against ANY style.
Kung Fu: The Chinese art of Kung Fu is the basis of all Japanese and Chinese martial arts. A splendid form in its own right, it is a very confusing and broad style that makes it so your opponent never knows what's coming at them next. Chops, open-hand strikes, kicks, and just about every other kind of strike is incorporated.
Jujitsu: A style that focuses on open-palm strikes and counter-attacking rather than mindless aggression. This style lacks in kicks, but skilled users of Jujitsu can rupture vital organs with concussive force from the vicious strikes in their palms. A true style for any pacifist, Jujitsu users are no pushovers.
Taekwondo: A style focused on rapid kicks to bring an opponent down. Kick combinations aren't exactly splendid looking, but they get the job done. Unlike Taekkyon, which many consider to be the ''true'' form in this style, Taekwondo incorporates vicious punches into the mix.
Ninjitsu: This style grants the user the advantage of swift and deceptive motion to attack vital points on the body. This style doesn't focus on extreme combinations, but morely on striking vital points on the body to strike an enemy into submission; or the afterlife. To know this, you MUST be a ninja, or you must become one.
Kobudo: A style that focuses on chops with hands like iron. A chop from this style feels like a punch from any other, if not worse. Chops are not singled out, however. The chops in this style are linked up into chains of chops that can devastate the average person. Kobudo can also be linked up with weapons to increase it's effectiveness.
Shidokan: A style that blends techniques from several other styles into one. Shidokan is quick and powerful, and focuses on back fists and kicks with impressive range. Punches are often converted into spinning back fists to knock an opponent unconscious with only two or three strikes, and the long kicks are slow but devastating, easily shattering ribs upon connection.
Judo: Judo is a style that focuses on grappling and using an opponent's weight against them. Strikes are not as common as are grapples and tosses to take an opponent to the floor, where hardly anything can be done. The impact of Judo's tosses and throws can be devastating if one is unprepared for them. Judo artists have been known to take down groups of people at a time.
Aikido: Another grappling style that focuses on using momentum instead of weight. Instead of reversing motion as with Judo, Aikido follows it, forcing the opponent to move into joint locks, tosses, slams, and throws. Aikido incorporates nearly no striking at all. On the other hand, it is extremely strong against non-grappling styles if the opponent is not careful.
Pa Kua Kwon: A Chinese martial art which turns each limb of your body into a weapon. Going up against a user of this style is a deadly mistake unless you have been trained in some sort of martial art. It focuses on heavy strikes supported by momentum and quick bursts of speed.
Geumgangtu: A martial art that focuses on powerful, speedy strikes using the shoulders, back, elbows, and palms. Kicks are also included but the main focus of this style is to break bones and cripple the opponent with quick, strong attacks.
Koroshu: A military-developed style, focused to be the last resort of any soldier whom had lost his weapon. Koroshu focuses on exterior damage through punches and rotational kicks, making it's attacks painful even when blocked. It also incorporates shoulder rams designed to disarm opponents.
Baguazhang: A defensive style designed to never start a fight but to end one. Baguazhang's attacks and disciplines are centered around the movement of an opponent. It is designed as a style that incorporates counter-attacking above all else. It is a fluid, graceful style that turns an opponent's physical strength against them.
Shaolin: Shaolin Kung Fu is an extremely powerful martial art taught exclusively to Shaolin Monks. Therefore, anyone who is NOT a monk cannot start with this style, and must become one to learn it. It is focused around quick, surprising attacks made to not kill but cripple an opponent in just a few blows. Palm strikes, full-force fist strikes and chained kicks are all principles.
Drunken Boxing: Drunken Boxing is an odd style. Best known and used by Shinu Ortanzu. It is actually best used when someone is, well, drunk. To this end, practitioners of the style often carry around bottles of extremely potent alcohol to intoxicate themselves should a fight arise. Drunken Boxing is known for it's extremely powerful and unpredictable attacks. With drunken strength accompanying each blow and every blow more confusing than the last, this is truly a deadly style to go up against. Drunken Boxing mimics the stumbling of a drunkard, making every attack unpredictable. With each bottle of alcohol consumed, the user becomes more and more unpredictable.
Karate: Literally translated to empty hand, this is a fluid mix of Chinese and Japanese martial arts into one splendid form. Karate is focused around striking with no real grappling involved. Each part of each limb is used in some fashion or another; legs, knees, elbows, wrists, hands, fists, feet. All of them are used in delivering powerful strikes. This is essentially a style that is not very difficult to learn, yet is less sophisticated than others.
Jeet Kun Do: Literally ''Way of the Intercepting Fist''. This style is focused morely on flow than most other styles out there. Interception is a great term for it, as it focuses on lightning-quick strikes that interrupt an opponent's attack before it can connect. An aggressive style yet one that can counter also, yet not to the extent of Baguazhang.
Mao Gong: A style that mimics the agility and quickness of a Cat. This style is focused on quick and weak chained strikes that focus on flurries, spins, and rotations. Slides are also incorporated. This style is fast and deceptive, yet the strikes practiced are very weak and are of no use unless chained together into a combination.
Murekwon: Translated to Bear Style Kung Fu, Murekwon practitioners are a force to be reckoned with due to strength alone. A true counterpart to Mao Gong, Murekwon focuses on incredibly strong punches honed by freakish physical strength and momentum. A few strikes are enough to make an opponent feel true pain, yet kicks are not incorporated, strictly Ax kicks are however. Strikes do not need to be linked up to be effective. A punch from a Murekwon user backed by momentum and incredible strength can fracture bones.
Taekkyon: A Korean martial art which some consider a ''true'' version of Taekwondo. This style is known for it's wide variety of kicks that involve rotation, spinning, momentum, and jumping. Taekkyon users are extremely flawed when it comes to punches, and therefore are at about civilian level to that extent. As far as kicks go, however, they leave most other styles in the dust.
Street Fighting: A formless civilian ''style''. Everyone knows how to Street Fight, and there are many ways to do it. It's just focused on taking someone down through any means possible. A Street Fighter is at an extreme disadvantage against ANY style.
Kung Fu: The Chinese art of Kung Fu is the basis of all Japanese and Chinese martial arts. A splendid form in its own right, it is a very confusing and broad style that makes it so your opponent never knows what's coming at them next. Chops, open-hand strikes, kicks, and just about every other kind of strike is incorporated.
Jujitsu: A style that focuses on open-palm strikes and counter-attacking rather than mindless aggression. This style lacks in kicks, but skilled users of Jujitsu can rupture vital organs with concussive force from the vicious strikes in their palms. A true style for any pacifist, Jujitsu users are no pushovers.
Taekwondo: A style focused on rapid kicks to bring an opponent down. Kick combinations aren't exactly splendid looking, but they get the job done. Unlike Taekkyon, which many consider to be the ''true'' form in this style, Taekwondo incorporates vicious punches into the mix.
Ninjitsu: This style grants the user the advantage of swift and deceptive motion to attack vital points on the body. This style doesn't focus on extreme combinations, but morely on striking vital points on the body to strike an enemy into submission; or the afterlife. To know this, you MUST be a ninja, or you must become one.
Kobudo: A style that focuses on chops with hands like iron. A chop from this style feels like a punch from any other, if not worse. Chops are not singled out, however. The chops in this style are linked up into chains of chops that can devastate the average person. Kobudo can also be linked up with weapons to increase it's effectiveness.
Shidokan: A style that blends techniques from several other styles into one. Shidokan is quick and powerful, and focuses on back fists and kicks with impressive range. Punches are often converted into spinning back fists to knock an opponent unconscious with only two or three strikes, and the long kicks are slow but devastating, easily shattering ribs upon connection.
Judo: Judo is a style that focuses on grappling and using an opponent's weight against them. Strikes are not as common as are grapples and tosses to take an opponent to the floor, where hardly anything can be done. The impact of Judo's tosses and throws can be devastating if one is unprepared for them. Judo artists have been known to take down groups of people at a time.
Aikido: Another grappling style that focuses on using momentum instead of weight. Instead of reversing motion as with Judo, Aikido follows it, forcing the opponent to move into joint locks, tosses, slams, and throws. Aikido incorporates nearly no striking at all. On the other hand, it is extremely strong against non-grappling styles if the opponent is not careful.