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Welcome back Kata! – Bo and Jo Staff Basics

FightWrite — Sat, 01 May 2021 17:42:46 +0000

Some time back on the YouTube, FightWrite featured Jo Kata 13 as an intro to bo and jo staff basics. Well, recently, writer Arysta Henry reached out to me and asked to post something about quarterstaffs. I mentioned that I had a jo kata on the channel but then realized it might need a little commentary. If you don’t really know what you are looking at, it’s hard sometimes to get information from it. So, in this video I break down jo kata 13. But, first, Arysta asked specifically about quarterstaffs. A quarter staff is a long wooden staff …

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How Your Female Fighter Looks

FightWrite — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:32:56 +0000

We are in the middle of a series on building a female fighting character. In our last round on FightWrite™ we looked at how women fight differently than men. Or, actually, how they DON’T. This round we are going to consider what your female fighting character looks like. Or, actually, how she likely DOESN’T. If book covers are any evidence of how a female fighter is built, it is thus: tall, long legged, lean, muscular and aggressively busty. Outside of build, they also seem to be white. Like, never been in the sun white and, despite their years of brawling, …

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Writing Female Fighters

FightWrite — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:17:03 +0000

One of the questions I am asked most often is, from a technical perspective, how do women fight differently than men? In other words, if your female character carries a sword, how will her sword work differ from that of male characters? How will her hand-to-hand combat differ? Her wrestling? Her (insert fighting style here)? In my book, Fight Write: How to Write Believable Fight Scenes, I have a whole chapter on female aggression. On the second page I address the fighting style of women. However, the number of questions I receive tells me that I should have given …

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