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Tog_ · #**102** (**permalink**) 09-June-2007, 12:39 PM

How about the PC hero (MacGuyver) who totally 100% opposed to ever using a gun no matter how desperate the situation might be (unless it was to take it apart and use it as a tool), who then ends up killing nearly as many bad guys in many ways, some of which are far more violent? Or for contrast, the A-Team; any one of which can hit the control box from a moving van just right to short it out and open the gate, but never once managed to hit a person, or a car.

RE: nunchucks. See Rapid Fire with Brandon Lee. The story is okay, the writing is junk, and powers Booth sucks so hard in this role that light bends around him, but the fight scenes were excellent. At one point Henchmen #17 comes out with a pair of nunchucks and is foiled by the simple tossing of a shirt. That leads into one of the best movie fights ever (IMO). Brandon Lee vs. Al Leong (AKA That Sinister Asian Guy, you'll know his face). Absolutely terrific fight.

The guy that's flipping the nunchucks all around isn't really that much of a threat as the guy that isn't. The only reason you spend so much time flipping them is that when you hit something, you have no idea where that loose stick is going to go. You need to be ready to redirect it. This was made ever so clear to me when I hit a pumpkin hanging from a tree. The loose stick came straight back across the back of my hand. It was cold. It hurt a lot. I didn't care for it. Another sight of "flash fighting" is how close the hand is to the rope. If the hand is more than halfway on the rope side, it a good sign of someone that learned everything they know by watching Bruce Lee movies. If the stick is held by the rope, but "backwards" so the rope is closer to the pinky finger than the thumb, there is a good chance the person knows what they are doing and that they are prepared for close in defensive fighting.