Comments on: Book Pimpage, And Combat Scenes http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/2008/08/book-pimpage-and-combat-scenes/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Bird of Ill Repute Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:26:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lilith Saintcrow » Blog Archive » The Physical Act Of Writing http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/2008/08/book-pimpage-and-combat-scenes/comment-page-1/#comment-54776 Lilith Saintcrow » Blog Archive » The Physical Act Of Writing Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:48:06 +0000 http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/?p=636#comment-54776 [...] often tell people they need to swing a weapon around or actually fire a gun if they truly want to fix their combat scenes. There’s nothing like kinesthetic learning to [...] [...] often tell people they need to swing a weapon around or actually fire a gun if they truly want to fix their combat scenes. There’s nothing like kinesthetic learning to [...]

]]> By: mazoku http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/2008/08/book-pimpage-and-combat-scenes/comment-page-1/#comment-54619 mazoku Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:06:50 +0000 http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/?p=636#comment-54619 Totally unrelated to the post, but I thought to warn you that the Saint City Street Fair has some problems: I keep logging in, it tells me I successfully logged in, and then when it redirects me to the home page I'm logged out again... O_o Totally unrelated to the post, but I thought to warn you that the Saint City Street Fair has some problems: I keep logging in, it tells me I successfully logged in, and then when it redirects me to the home page I’m logged out again… O_o

]]> By: mazoku http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/2008/08/book-pimpage-and-combat-scenes/comment-page-1/#comment-54618 mazoku Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:39:29 +0000 http://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/?p=636#comment-54618 If I may add something about the sensory acuity thing: it's true what Lilith says, but you also have to consider that if your hero/ine isn't used to battle s/he most likely will suffer from what is called "tunnel effect". This means that during a battle you tend to focus on what you've got in front of you and tend to forget to check your surroundings (and, literally, you get tunnel vision: everything in front of you is clear, the rest is pure blackness): this is dangerous, because you can never know if there is more than one assailant (you can't see if someone comes at you from your side) and because you can't check all of the risky places around you and your escape routes. :) Another thing: if you want to make an extremely realistic fight, try going to a couple lessons of krav maga. It's not very choreographic, but it's terribly effective. ;) Hope it helps!! :) If I may add something about the sensory acuity thing: it’s true what Lilith says, but you also have to consider that if your hero/ine isn’t used to battle s/he most likely will suffer from what is called “tunnel effect”. This means that during a battle you tend to focus on what you’ve got in front of you and tend to forget to check your surroundings (and, literally, you get tunnel vision: everything in front of you is clear, the rest is pure blackness): this is dangerous, because you can never know if there is more than one assailant (you can’t see if someone comes at you from your side) and because you can’t check all of the risky places around you and your escape routes. :)

Another thing: if you want to make an extremely realistic fight, try going to a couple lessons of krav maga. It’s not very choreographic, but it’s terribly effective. ;)

Hope it helps!! :)

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