Favorite fantasy MA style

[elder999]

Then, of course, there's my favorite reply to the inevitable stupid question, "What's the deadliest style for the str33tz?"

 

[Transk53]

If folks are talking about Star Trek, then I would go with Mok'bara!!!

Yeah not bad. I did enjoy watching Worf. Especially the scenes in the holodeck episodes

 

[Transk53]

I just say, Mohaddeeeeeeb! And my enemies fall down.

Hell yeah. Still prefer the Kyle Maclachlan film

 

[Cirdan]

Kaio-ken! Raaaahhhhh

 

[LibbyW]

Kaio-ken! Raaaahhhhh

Raaaahhhhhhh! indeed

 

[Paul_D]

"Venusian Aikido Gentlemen, I do hope I haven't hurt you."

ImmaHunter

 

[Transk53]

"Venusian Aikido Gentlemen, I do hope I haven't hurt you."

ImmaHunter

John Pertwee = Dr Who legend.

 

[Kong Soo Do]

I was just wondering what peeps preferences were towards fantasy martial arts.

Rex Kwan Do

Glock Fu

Ching Ching Bang

 

[Dirty Dog]

Glock Fu and Chic Chic Bang are not fantasy arts...

 

[PhotonGuy]

I was just wondering what peeps preferences were towards fantasy martial arts.
After a little bit of digging I've found that there is a whole wealth of made up, crazily OTT, fictitious martial arts styles.

I do know Sherlock Holmes trained in a fictional martial art called Baritsu, I don't know what it was supposed to consist of though.

 

[donald1]

Glock Fu and Chic Chic Bang are not fantasy arts...

afcoarse... but clearly pew pew do is

 

[Kong Soo Do]

Glock Fu and Chic Chic Bang are not fantasy arts...

Neither is Rex Kwan Do...I saw it on YT

 

[Dirty Dog]

I do know Sherlock Holmes trained in a fictional martial art called Baritsu, I don't know what it was supposed to consist of though.

So... you think Bartitsu is fictional, but you think a Sai can be used effectively to break a katana, TMNT are a good resource for MA references and that Funakoshi changed shotokan.
And you're still shocked that your posts get facepalmed?

 

[Transk53]

I do know Sherlock Holmes trained in a fictional martial art called Baritsu, I don't know what it was supposed to consist of though.

Erm, Sherlock Holmes is fictional, the art is very real!!!!!!!! Oh I am soo poised

 

[PhotonGuy]

So... you think Bartitsu is fictional

I don't think Baritsu is fictional I know it is.
And I never said I thought a sai could break a katana. I wasn't sure and I was actually quite skeptical when I heard of it being able to do that. That's why I started the thread.

And here's one for you, a quadruple.


Ordinarily I would not lower myself to this level but this time I couldn't resist

 

[Tony Dismukes]

I do know Sherlock Holmes trained in a fictional martial art called Baritsu, I don't know what it was supposed to consist of though.

Erm, Sherlock Holmes is fictional, the art is very real!!!!!!!! Oh I am soo poised

Bartitsu is real. Baritsu was Arthur Conan Doyle's misspelling of the real art.

 

[Transk53]

 

[Transk53]

Bartitsu is real. Baritsu was Arthur Conan Doyle's misspelling of the real art.

No worries, I did finally notice the misspelling at least.

 

[PhotonGuy]

Bartitsu is real. Baritsu was Arthur Conan Doyle's misspelling of the real art.

Yes he did that on purpose to distinguish between his fictional martial art and the real art.

 

[Tony Dismukes]

Yes he did that on purpose to distinguish between his fictional martial art and the real art.

Maybe, maybe not. At this point no one has any way of knowing. Wikipedia has a decent summation:

The term "baritsu" did not exist outside the pages of the English editions of The Adventure of the Empty House and a 1900 London Times newspaper report titled "Japanese Wrestling at the Tivoli," which covered a Bartitsu demonstration in London but misspelled the name as baritsu.[18] It is possible that Conan Doyle, who, like E.W. Barton-Wright, was writing for Pearson’s Magazine during the late 1890s, had direct familiarity with Bartitsu but altered the term in order to distance it for intellectual-proprietary reasons, avoid misattribution of Holmes' techniques, and/or make it more consistent with Japanese phonology; alternatively, he may have been only more vaguely aware of Bartitsu and simply misremembered or misheard the term. A third possibility is that Conan Doyle may have used the 1900 London Times article as source material, copying the "baritsu" misspelling verbatim; particularly in that he had Holmes define "baritsu" as "Japanese wrestling", which was the same phrase used in the newspaper headline.