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we talk about fighting enough around here for health reasons so I guess try to ask. what fighting arts were they using in the the bourne movies? was it some mixed martial arts or some type of army trained fighting art?
>> Anonymous
I am also curious.

The fight sequences were pretty like dancing, and filled the gay man in me with joy.
>> Anonymous
choreographed garbage
>> Anonymous
Choreographers probably didn't use any particular style, but a just a combination of stuff. In general the stuff has been pretty generic self defense stuff all trough the movies. I thought the first two at least included some trapping and slipping techniques that I was familiar with trough Win-Tsun Kung Fu, though that doesn't mean that that is necessarily the influence, even though WTKF styled fighting has been popular in movies lately. Also many of the drills seemed like slow-fight drills you would do in Krav Maga or Systema, but again I may only be saying that because that is where I have done them.
>> Anonymous
kali/escrima/arnis

It's all the same shit, different names.
>> Anonymous
It was Krav Maga mainly.
>> Anonymous
>>383566
It wasn't. It was all Filipino martial arts.
>> Anonymous
>>383573
Just curious, what do you base that on? I've only ever done "escrima-concepts" which has so much western boxing (and some say JKD) influences that I'm hardly an expert on the matter, but I didn't see anything that would have screamed FILIPINO at me, any more than several other possible things. Were the choreographers known to be specifically kali guys or something?
>> Anonymous
>>383579
I base it on the fact that it's what the choreographers used.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258463/trivia

Check the last bullet point.
>> Anonymous
>>383588
ok... the JKD bit about that actually kinda explains why I though I saw Wing Tsun in there.
>> Anonymous
There were definitely a few Krav Maga moves in there
>> Anonymous
>>383601
You need to understand that KM is an amalgam of very basic, stripped down, "whatever works" kinda stuff, that could be derived from almost anything. Just because there was a slip and a jab in there you could learn in KM, it does not mean that that was the source. IMBD says the choreographers used other stuff. Besides, your basing that on what you though the actors, who don't know the difference between KM and Kali in the first place, are pretending to fight like.
>> Anonymous
It was Krav Maga.
>> Anonymous
Yeah, it was Krav Maga, it's mentioned in the Special Features of the DVD's.
>> Anonymous
I'm going to be contrarian and just for the hell of it say that it's actually military combat sambo, even though it looks absolutely nothing like what was in the fight scenes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75gwKhV5NmY
>> Anonymous
>>383652
perhaps they wanted that since bourne and the assassins were all military but they thought it wasn't flashy enough so used mostly the krav maga instead.
>> Anonymous
>>383652
Every military martial art should include flying armbars.
>> Anonymous
>>383664

Krav Maga IS a military martial art, just not the US (to my knowledge). It's taught over in Israel.
>> Anonymous
Across my training of various martial arts from Western boxing, to escrima (Bahala Na), to Pencak Silat, and finally Goju Ryu Karate, I've learned some things from my teachers. They essentially had the same thing to say to me:
As humans, we have a finite range of motions we can achieve. We have two arms and two legs. In martial arts, we can only go so far until everything starts looking the same.
>> Anonymous
>>383703
>Bahala Na

LOL
>> Anonymous
>>383716
what.jpg
>> Anonymous
>>383726
thatfuckingcat.jpg
>> Anonymous
shaky-camera-fu
>> Anonymous
STOOP MOVIE IS STOOP