Casperr
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I've been sitting around, training on some kung fu, primarily Taiji and doing some Iron Palm workouts, and thinking about what it would be like to make my own style.
I always dreamed about making some kind of fictional-zombie-based style which would contain grapples and lots of biting, but I figured that it wouldn't be very hygenic.
So one day, there I was, watching Zed the chameleon climb perfectly from branch to branch, and it hit me: A chameleon fighting style
First I thought out what I'd like to call a "goal" (Deciding what you would see a lot of in the style.) I noticed Zed always shooting his tongue in a straight line, and never missed. Why was it he never missed? It's because he waited for the perfect moment-- waited until the cricket was right where he wanted, when there were no branches or leaves in the way. And even then, he would prepare his tongue a couple seconds before he shot.
How could I apply this? Well I just compared a chameleon, a cricket, and a tree to me, my enemy, and his defenses. I'm a chameleon and he is lunch, I just have to wait for the right moment to make a perfect strike by working his arms (branches) away from his face/torso
As for Zed climbing from branch to branch, I started working on a practice form for that already. Zed's hands are my hands, and the branches are my opponent's arms/legs. Grabbing them and moving from "branch to branch" is something easy to work on.
And for the color-changing, I have no idea what I can do to apply that. Any ideas?
I'm having lots of fun with this.
I always dreamed about making some kind of fictional-zombie-based style which would contain grapples and lots of biting, but I figured that it wouldn't be very hygenic.
So one day, there I was, watching Zed the chameleon climb perfectly from branch to branch, and it hit me: A chameleon fighting style
First I thought out what I'd like to call a "goal" (Deciding what you would see a lot of in the style.) I noticed Zed always shooting his tongue in a straight line, and never missed. Why was it he never missed? It's because he waited for the perfect moment-- waited until the cricket was right where he wanted, when there were no branches or leaves in the way. And even then, he would prepare his tongue a couple seconds before he shot.
How could I apply this? Well I just compared a chameleon, a cricket, and a tree to me, my enemy, and his defenses. I'm a chameleon and he is lunch, I just have to wait for the right moment to make a perfect strike by working his arms (branches) away from his face/torso
As for Zed climbing from branch to branch, I started working on a practice form for that already. Zed's hands are my hands, and the branches are my opponent's arms/legs. Grabbing them and moving from "branch to branch" is something easy to work on.
And for the color-changing, I have no idea what I can do to apply that. Any ideas?
I'm having lots of fun with this.
