Post by legios on Apr 13, 2011 21:39:26 GMT
Centred Pivot Metalikato:
Centred Pivot was a style of Metalikato that was strongly influenced by the uneven terrain and difficult footing of the Manganese Mountain regions where it was initially developed. The style set great store by stances that maintained the practitioners centre of gravity in a natural equilibrium. The style's founder is said to have instructed his early students:-
“Only from balance grows true strength. Without equilibrium all power is the empty mutterings of the breeze. Be as certain, firm and patient as the mountains and your opponent will defeat themselves.”
Centred Pivot taught the importance of a closed defensive style, aimed at causing the opponent to over-extend themselves – weakening their guard and allowing the practitioner to step into close combat with them. Once in close combat the style utilized short but powerful blows followed by a swift return to an even, centred guard position intended to allow the practitioner to inflict damage on his opponent swiftly without compromising his defensive position. Defensively the style emphasised blocks and interceptions over the acrobatics and dodging movements of Whirling Cog-style Metalikato or Precessive Mugen. On the offence Centred Pivot relied primarily on strikes with the manipulating appendages or lower arm components, de-emphasising strikes with the legs which were seen to weaken the balanced stance that was at the heart of the styles teaching.
Centred Pivot in the media:
Centred Pivot Metalikato was often seen as an “exotic” style perhaps due to its lower popularity amongst State Games competitors compared to showier, more crowd-pleasing styles. In Vid-dramas it was often associated with “the 'bot from the other side of the world” and depicted as a mysterious art of strange hidden secrets – often the hero of the drama would be forced to go through great trials to locate a master of the style and learn its secrets so he could gain the strength to face and defeat the hench-bots of the villain of the piece. Perhaps the most famous example of this is “Fist of the Hidden Temple” where Lugnut, wrongly accused of cowardice in a ritual battle between city-states must journey to find the Temple of the Incandescent Prime to learn from its last master and return to free his City-state from the domination of a cabal of greedy Iaconian merchants. This is perhaps the defining depiction of the style in the media, with the scene where Lugnut battles his way through a megascraper's worth of henchmen before facing his nemesis – culminating in a battle which is finished with the most spectacular depiction of the style's trademark “half-meter punch” in any vid-media.
Category: Cybertronian Martial Arts
Centred Pivot was a style of Metalikato that was strongly influenced by the uneven terrain and difficult footing of the Manganese Mountain regions where it was initially developed. The style set great store by stances that maintained the practitioners centre of gravity in a natural equilibrium. The style's founder is said to have instructed his early students:-
“Only from balance grows true strength. Without equilibrium all power is the empty mutterings of the breeze. Be as certain, firm and patient as the mountains and your opponent will defeat themselves.”
Centred Pivot taught the importance of a closed defensive style, aimed at causing the opponent to over-extend themselves – weakening their guard and allowing the practitioner to step into close combat with them. Once in close combat the style utilized short but powerful blows followed by a swift return to an even, centred guard position intended to allow the practitioner to inflict damage on his opponent swiftly without compromising his defensive position. Defensively the style emphasised blocks and interceptions over the acrobatics and dodging movements of Whirling Cog-style Metalikato or Precessive Mugen. On the offence Centred Pivot relied primarily on strikes with the manipulating appendages or lower arm components, de-emphasising strikes with the legs which were seen to weaken the balanced stance that was at the heart of the styles teaching.
Centred Pivot in the media:
Centred Pivot Metalikato was often seen as an “exotic” style perhaps due to its lower popularity amongst State Games competitors compared to showier, more crowd-pleasing styles. In Vid-dramas it was often associated with “the 'bot from the other side of the world” and depicted as a mysterious art of strange hidden secrets – often the hero of the drama would be forced to go through great trials to locate a master of the style and learn its secrets so he could gain the strength to face and defeat the hench-bots of the villain of the piece. Perhaps the most famous example of this is “Fist of the Hidden Temple” where Lugnut, wrongly accused of cowardice in a ritual battle between city-states must journey to find the Temple of the Incandescent Prime to learn from its last master and return to free his City-state from the domination of a cabal of greedy Iaconian merchants. This is perhaps the defining depiction of the style in the media, with the scene where Lugnut battles his way through a megascraper's worth of henchmen before facing his nemesis – culminating in a battle which is finished with the most spectacular depiction of the style's trademark “half-meter punch” in any vid-media.
Category: Cybertronian Martial Arts