Cpt. Kirk's fighting style
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jxh13 — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 11:23 AM)
Yeah. What would you call that fighting style?
We used to call it "Kirk Fu," and it seems to involve a lot of rolling around, a few sharp, quick punches, and occasionally the fearsome Kirk Butt Slam.
There is an episode of
Big Bang Theory
in which Adam Nimoy is interviewing Sheldon, who describes his attempts to use the Vulcan neck pinch on one of his childhood tormentors. It was, shall we say, less than completely effective.
The Jim West fighting style, which involved a lot of swinging on chandeliers and the more traditional Western haymaker punches, was easier to emulate and probably more effective than Kirk Fu. -
timmytony80 — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 12:08 PM)
A much much earlier post said that 1960's censors insisted that the TOS stunt coordinators come up w/ a form of harmless hand-hand combat! When Kirk "kicks" the blue guy w/ the antennae (Land of Babyl) u c he kicks the wall, instead!
Although Jim West, Palladin, The Big Valley, Marshall Dillon, any other westerns, Man From Uncle, c/d throw haymakers, karate chopps, etc. -
stewie-3 — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 08:35 PM)
When I was a kid, I once tried the "double-fist smash" move Kirk (and later Worf) used in a few eps. Doesn't work for spit in a real fight, I'll tell you that for nothing!
I am still curious to try Shatner's "Leaping Butt Strike" he uses on the fake Andorian in Journey to Babel. That one's GOT to work! -
LarrupinLou — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 04:03 PM)
My brothers and I didn't do any Kirk moves that I can recall, though we used to do the Buck Rodgers roundhouse kick a lot. The one thing of Kirk's we did, however, was that backward jump and look he always did when someone was trying to cut him in half with a sword or scimitar. I always tried to run like him, too.
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