Martial arts reality check

[Morte]

I'm sure we have a few martial artists here. Maybe they can check over something for me. Does anything in the following passage scream "fundamentally nonsensical"?

Medea experienced a moment of heightened awareness, seeing next second stretch out before her as Sigurd telescoped the sweep kick. Stepping into and under the kick, she caught his counter-balancing arm and pulled, using the precious moment to pull him off balance and onto her hip. The side levitation throw went smoothly. As he flew, he instinctively tried to spin out of landing on his back. She helped instead of fighting it, and dived after. He hit the mat spread-eagled face down, and she landed across his back a fraction later. In a moment his left arm was scissored between her thighs and calves, as her arms locked his right in Ude Garami. She levered his elbow off the mat and dislocated it before he could think about groundwork.

She waited for the scream to end. “Submit, lover mine?”

“Nggghhh. Submit. Call the ship any damn thing you want.”

“Thanks, dear.”

Sigurd staggered off sweating to the autodoc, and Medea went to see the yardmaster. The “Long Serpent” it was, then.

 

[MJD]

I'm sure you mean telegraphed, not telescoped....

 

[Morte]

Originally posted by MJD:
I'm sure you mean telegraphed, not telescoped....

Second martial arts reality check of the day: is it possible to kick yourself anywhere other than the leg?

 

[trader jim]

All of a sudden that 70's Diso Song pops into my head...Everyone was Kung-Fu Fighting...!!!!

 

[eclipse]

I'd change "sweep kick" to "wheel kick".

When you say "Sweep", I'm thinking of something low, designed to take someone off their feet.
i.e. something hard to get under.

A wheel kick looks cool, does horrific damage when you clock someone in the head with it, but it's easy to telegraph and easy to duck under.

 

[eclipse]

Oh ya, the shoulder would be the joint that dislocates in that move. My take is that the elbow joint would break instead of dislocating.

It also fits in what what I'm reading into that snippet, i.e. a more or less friendly bout.

A dislocated shoulder is a fairly quick fix.
A broken elbow is mess, even with a TL F autodoc.

 

[Eric]

is it possible to kick yourself anywhere other than the leg?

Not that I've ever done it but, when playing hackie sack it is quite possible to hack your own sack.
Any one flexible enough can kick them self in the head, or just about any were else for that matter.

 

[Morte]

Originally posted by eclipse:
A wheel kick looks cool, does horrific damage when you clock someone in the head with it, but it's easy to telegraph and easy to duck under.

OK, that sounds like what I had in mind (just didn't know the term for it).

Originally posted by eclipse:
Oh ya, the shoulder would be the joint that dislocates in that move. My take is that the elbow joint would break instead of dislocating.

It also fits in what what I'm reading into that snippet, i.e. a more or less friendly bout.

A dislocated shoulder is a fairly quick fix.
A broken elbow is mess, even with a TL F autodoc.

Now the elbow dislocation was the one part of that snippet featuring actual martial arts knowledge -- I learned the move when I "went to Judo club" on Wednesday nights as a thirteen year old.

But the shoulder does work better in the story, so shoulder it is.

 

[Rotters2]

Yeah, elbow dislocations HURT. Got my right one dislocated one night in training... my own stupid fault really - one of those situations where I zigged when I should have zagged

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Aa an aside, never underestimate the effect of 'Ren 17'. It's an acupuncture point about 2.5" below the base of the manubrium on the midline. The effect of a decent hit there leaves one curled up in a ball unable to breath, and repeating the phrase "Kill me. Please, kill me". Needless to say, another zig-when-I-should-have-zagged episode.

Hmmm.... maybe that's why my Sensei used to call me his "personal Punching bag"...

 

[Straybow]

Dislocations are nasty, and I don't think Traveller med tech helps much with ligament and cartilage injuries. Often worse than a break.
If I were him I'd leave that be-atch.

 

[Morte]

Originally posted by Straybow:
If I were him I'd leave that be-atch.

You don't know what he wanted to call the ship...