Martial Arts Video References for Overgrowth

[Endoperez]

Paraphrased from the Finnish post that this was referenced in.
This is a first part of a documentaty about Japanese martial arts. This is interesting mostly because is shows clips from all kinds of koryu-styles, some of which are rarely seen, such as jujutsu styles and Hayashizaki Muso-ryu style. You should mostly ignore the narration. The second part moves to modern budo.




And here are some non-kendo related videos from the Kendo foundation's channel.

Chokugen-ryu Onaginata, or "big naginata". That is certainly a big polearm. The techniques are demonstrated against a sword, and against a staff.



Shin Muso Hayashizaki-ryu Iaijutsu
Iaido, or the art of drawing a blade fast. One of the comments identifies the weapons as okatana (and it certainly looks like a big sword), and the other as a shoto (and it looks tiny in comparison). Of course, when the weapon is drawn right next to an opponent, you'd imagine the shorter blade would be faster to draw. The trick seems to be in manipulating the sheath with the other hand.



Jikishinkage-ryu Naginata
Naginata against sword. Lots of fantastic tricks that apply for all kinds of polearms and staff weapons.
The second part of the video demonstrates kusari-gama, the weird sickle-with-a-chain weapon!

[Josef Nader]

Contributing.

[Krabman318]

I thought since rabbits have very strong legs, a martial art based mainly on kicks and sweeps would fit them well.

[Endoperez]

Nice!

Capoiera's kicks would work, but handstands and such would be harder with the rabbits' shorter arms.

[arthuro12]

id love to see some muai boran

http://youtu.be/pURBi8ZOu_Q

[Krabman318]

[Endoperez]

Nice moves! I didn't like the shake effect in the clip, it looks good to have the screen shake a bit when he stomps his food but it distracts a bit from the technique. Same thing with the postprocessing effects on the video, looks nice but distracts from the technique.

[arthuro12]

Nice moves! I didn't like the shake effect in the clip, it looks good to have the screen shake a bit when he stomps his food but it distracts a bit from the technique. Same thing with the postprocessing effects on the video, looks nice but distracts from the technique.

Yeah its from the movie Ong Bak2, muai boran is such an ancient style its hard to get legit clips of it

[kehaar]

Those Ong Bak movies have some really fun moves in them, both in the fights and in the Parkour/obstacle style chases in the streets. Not all of the good stuff is available on YouTube, but for anyone animating it would be worth renting the movie to use for reference.

[arthuro12]

Those Ong Bak movies have some really fun moves in them, both in the fights and in the Parkour/obstacle style chases in the streets. Not all of the good stuff is available on YouTube, but for anyone animating it would be worth renting the movie to use for reference.

yup, not everything in the movie is .. believable.. but some good moves are definetly out there for reference !!!

some knee or elbow strikes would be cool, they do a lot of damage (trust me haha )

[kehaar]

From Ong Bak, here's a compilation of Tony Jaa moves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSMjAZvU ... re=related


The move that absolutely has to be in Overgrowth is a knee strike at 0:25. We had to rewind and watch that about 6 times when we rented it.

Oh well, clearly I can't figure out how to embed the damn thing...

[RigorMortisRabbit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP5TgxWaZrs
quality is awful but its a very good show of shaolin style n' speed.
if there was anything that i'd sugest for the game then it be a running round house kick deliverd from the air in the specialists mod for half life 1 i'd always get my avatars head fractured the most by flying round house kicks from now where, would have looked so much kooler with rogdolls

[kehaar]

Contributing.

wow, that's a great video. The pairs of fighters do the same sequence of moves over and over and add one more each time so you can see the progression from different angles. Nice find!

[Endoperez]

wow, that's a great video. The pairs of fighters do the same sequence of moves over and over and add one more each time so you can see the progression from different angles. Nice find!

I like that style too, and there are some more videos like that. I think they're based on old manuals which describe the combat moves like that. "This is how you counter a basic strike, this is how you counter the counter, this is how you counter the counter-counter" etc. Thisis my favourite video made in that style, but there are many more.

[Krabman318]

I noticed that there were many aikido videos, but none with kicks: