tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 27 10:14:12 1996
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RE: Klingon writing tool
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: RE: Klingon writing tool
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 19:07:44 +0200
At 07:28 PM 5/23/96 -0700, HetaQ wrote:
>Hmmm, I'd say the weapons themselves more resemble Chinese martial arts
>weapons. Japanese weapons are a bit more austere. Both the betleH and the
>meqleH are much to 'busy' to resemble Japanese weapons.
As I don't know what you mean with austere in this sense, I couldn't
comment, except to say that if austere means severe then I'm completly lost.
A large curved two handed blade, not very severe, I know not of a Japanese
hand held weapon which could have the same attack probability as a betleH.
The d'k tahg resembles early Japanese sword and knife making, with the gutter.
>As for the martial arts; the Klingon version of Tai Chi, mokbara (sp)
shown by Worf is, well, Yang
>Tai Chi in its appearance - Chinese, not Japanese.
Not that I'm a martial arts expert or anything, but I thought that, that
which you call Mok'bara, resembeled kata, more than Tai Chi, but even more
so because of the fight that Worf had with that Bajoran youth, which gave
her the chance to speak out against her teacher. Don't forget why Mok'bara
is taught, that is to enhance one's agility in hand-to-hand combat, it
helped to revive the dormant warrior spirit in "Birthright I" Stardate
46578.4. In this way kata is also used to heighten the hand-eye and
hand-to-hand combat ability of the karate user. Tai Chi is in no part a
physical fighting exercise, thus would be a useless comparison to be used in
conjuncture with Mok'bara. This naturaly means that Dan Curry [see ST:E] is
not as much of an expert as he thinks that he is, but neither are the writers.
>As for the fight scenes we've seen, I'd say they look just like
>Hollywood martial arts, and not very good Hollywood martial arts
>at that.
That is indeed the case, but that we can again atribute to the lack of
understanding that Dan Curry shows on the subject of martial arts on a whole.
Qapla'
beHwI"av (General smart alec)