It's interesting to see practical techniques and notice the small intricacies of the technique that you've never noticed before. it's also interesting to note that martial art is like any other art created by humans, it can be morphed and moved into another direction or form by the human imagination. one of my favorite manifestations of the combination of imagination and martial arts is the hyperbolic anime techniques and and styles. i dunno why, but i just love to watch samurai cut mountains with their swords, fighters shooting Ki balls, and great martal arts battles involving the shadow step.
the shadow step is one of my all time favorite supernatural abilities, it's basically where the user of said technique is said to "shadow" their enemy perfectly, to always be in their blind spot so they seem to be invisible to their opponent. i always loved to see one character use it on another to see if the shadow step could win and to see what variation of the concept they were going to use. well, i finally got to see a real world equivalent first-hand.
we were doing "men o somete do" (prolly spelled that wrong), a feint to stab a person in the face then a real slice to the stomach, when i realized not only are you feinting to make them lose their guard, but you're also creating a blind-spot(and therefore a true to life, practical, and non-exaggerated application of something close to shadow step) i practically shit my pants.
i'll illustrate.
you start out in basic stance
then you make a believable stab towards the enemy's face
at which point this happens
and from their point of view it looks like this
you see? the enemy can't see the attacker AT ALL. they have their meaty hands in the way. it's the PERFECT time to do whatever the fuck you want that will benefit by them not seeing it.
and then you can see how easy it is to change direction of the direction of the blade into a stomach cut.
i know this seems obvious now that you think about it, but a lot of people wouldn't be cognizant of these facts if i didn't point it out. they might not be impressed or get how frigging cool it is and be like "yeah, but that's not what it's for, it's a feint, even if they see you it's too late." I FUCKING KNOW THAT, DICK SNEEZES. but the fact that something like the shadow step actually does exist in small forms in certain styles just blows my mind. i mean, you fucking disappear for that split second. and the combo of a feint and creating and exploiting a blind-spot all in one small technique that takes less than 5 seconds to pull off is really fucking cool to me.
i dunno, i thought it was cool and i thought i'd share.
the shadow step is one of my all time favorite supernatural abilities, it's basically where the user of said technique is said to "shadow" their enemy perfectly, to always be in their blind spot so they seem to be invisible to their opponent. i always loved to see one character use it on another to see if the shadow step could win and to see what variation of the concept they were going to use. well, i finally got to see a real world equivalent first-hand.
we were doing "men o somete do" (prolly spelled that wrong), a feint to stab a person in the face then a real slice to the stomach, when i realized not only are you feinting to make them lose their guard, but you're also creating a blind-spot(and therefore a true to life, practical, and non-exaggerated application of something close to shadow step) i practically shit my pants.
i'll illustrate.
you start out in basic stance
then you make a believable stab towards the enemy's face
at which point this happens
and from their point of view it looks like this
you see? the enemy can't see the attacker AT ALL. they have their meaty hands in the way. it's the PERFECT time to do whatever the fuck you want that will benefit by them not seeing it.
and then you can see how easy it is to change direction of the direction of the blade into a stomach cut.
i know this seems obvious now that you think about it, but a lot of people wouldn't be cognizant of these facts if i didn't point it out. they might not be impressed or get how frigging cool it is and be like "yeah, but that's not what it's for, it's a feint, even if they see you it's too late." I FUCKING KNOW THAT, DICK SNEEZES. but the fact that something like the shadow step actually does exist in small forms in certain styles just blows my mind. i mean, you fucking disappear for that split second. and the combo of a feint and creating and exploiting a blind-spot all in one small technique that takes less than 5 seconds to pull off is really fucking cool to me.
i dunno, i thought it was cool and i thought i'd share.