Posts made by WildBaboons

I've always seen RL training as a sort of double edged sword. I used to do emote fighting all the time (though with dice/some sort of mechanics to be a neutral factor in determining outcome) and never really like people being too detailed in techniques. Saying you throw a punch to someone's face is fine, don't need to elaborate on how you rotate the arm and align the proper knuckles to strike, unless you purposefully want to highlight how you aren't doing that to get yourself a broken hand.

It's why "pronate" "supinate" thing amused me so much. Chances are the people involved aren't master swordsman and probably have no idea what's actually involved with the mechanics of edge and flat alignment or the strong and weak, etc etc. I remember we had a player that was a high belt of some sort in aikido and used to always do these elaborate aikido poses that no one could figure out what he was trying to accomplish because the style is so complicated and makes a lot of assumptions on the other persons reactions.

It's a hard thing to get right and need to decide if you want realism, a more cinematic experience or a balance of the two.