What martial arts do you want?

[xrodneyx]

To play as Turner (average-sized, capable fighter), what MA style do you want to play like?

personally, i prefer aiki/wing chun mix(like S. Seagal/Ip Man film), with some "wrestling" abilities of course, plus being capable of karate strikes and high kicks of taekwondo

[if only Overgrowth will get this far of simulating MA]

[Count Roland]

I think it's likely he'll do mixed martial arts. muay thai is great though.

[Untadaike]

Aikido, totally. But others too. We know for sure from Wolfire that each species will have it's own style.

[sfriedlander]

Just have different styles for different races if that isn't to hard...

[Richie Rabbit]

I'd like to see the wolfire team come up with made up martial arts moves for overgrowth like..
Rabbit kick boxing,wolf fang fist,rat attack,meow wrestling, & doggeh style.

[Endoperez]

This thread is missing few styles, like boxing.

I don't believe Overgrowth will have any exact martial art, but will try to incorporate some of the basic ideas they're based on, and perhaps also referencing the look of a spesific art.

[Zhukov]

Martial arts I would like to see in Overgrowth... lemme think...

Oh, I know!

Rabbit-Fu, Cat-Fu, Rat-Fu, Dog-Fu and Wolf-Fu. Also, some Civilian-Fu wouldn't go astray.

Really, I don't see why we would want to see a simulation of real life martial arts. Don't get me wrong, they do provide a fertile source of inspiration. However, there are more interesting options. Especially when considering that the characters in Overgrowth technically (and physiologically) aren't human. In my opinion, a cat (or rabbit or wolf etc) who does muay-thai is nowhere near as engaging as a cat that pounces and bites and fights like, well... like a bipedal cat.

[kuhfelsen]

I want to see some Glima styles incorporated into the game.

[Endoperez]

I want to see some Glima styles incorporated into the game.

Icelandic wrestling style. Looks interesting.

[xrodneyx]

Glima

yea but from what it looks on wiki, it's more like game than win-by-all-means martial art; i mean, it's limitations are only for nobleness, not for effective principles

ha-ha it's looks like aiki is winning , but Wing Chun voices are missing, because.. just look up Ip Man film
ps: waiting for Ip Man 2 (at 2010)
ps2: also i do wing chun myself, you can check our club's videos at http://www.wingchun.su/video/

[Count Roland]

hey cool. also seems it's been a while since you posted but possibly I'm mistaken. if that is the case welcome back.

[Ragdollmaster]

Turner uses MMA in Lugaru. Ranges from cheap tricks like kicking someone while they're down, to more modern disarms, to traditional-styled acrobatic moves like his handspring and flipping abilities.

I think in Overgrowth, it would be cool to see more grappling and Judo/Aikido styled possibilities. As it stands, there's basically the "throw the dude over your shoulder" option... not particularly exciting <_<

[Endoperez]

Turner uses MMA in Lugaru. Ranges from cheap tricks like kicking someone while they're down, to more modern disarms, to traditional-styled acrobatic moves like his handspring and flipping abilities.

I think in Overgrowth, it would be cool to see more grappling and Judo/Aikido styled possibilities. As it stands, there's basically the "throw the dude over your shoulder" option... not particularly exciting <_<

In the context of swords, staves and daggers, what was "more modern" about the disarms? When I think of modern disarms, I think of someone trying to get a handgun away from someone.

Also, thanks a lot for bringing Aikido up. I had never tried searching for spesific aikido terms (strike to the head, men-uchi, or spesific "throw" counter-techniques, like irimi-nage) in Youtube, and I found lots of great videos when I decided to see if I could find videos about aikido counters that look like Lugaru counters. I started with the basic iriminage and tenchinage, but I just kept finding more and more. I'll have to go through these when I get sound back and add them to the video reference thread, (unless some does that before me, hint hint ).

Here's a really cool "Yokomen uchi tenchi nage"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta7yrtC2Zkk
this guy has lots of short videos about single techniques, excellent for the video reference thread.


other cool videos about single techniques, from different sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE4jkH204pM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMugn8LjiM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE4jkH204pM

I'll have to listen to this once I get sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYqFSDGEjc

mo-cap visualization:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-YlIveeC-I

russian aikido training. the attackers don't even look like they're trying to really hit the target, but perhaps that's why this is training and not a fight?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYqFSDGEjc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzaF9GghUlk

[Ylvali]

I wish the devs will look at kali sticks/escrima latosa when designing the weapon fighting. Especially for two weapon fighting there is nothing like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH309Ywz ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvrvoBIq__k
Those aren´t the best examples but I´m in a hurry.

[m3nace]

drunken monkey <!,,!