bujinkan, a serious debate

[deralte]

Bujinkan on Saturday had a really good theme. The idea of attacking hard, then soft, then hard, then soft again. So like, first was a hard block to a right punch, then you gently used the right hand you used to block to follow the fist back to their chest, while stepping back to avoid the second punch (people automatically pull back their opposite first when they're punching), then quickly bring the fist near their chest up to hit them under the chin and bring it around to extend their left arm out at a 45 or so degree angle behind them (your other hand comes up to block), then ever so gently guide them a few inches further then take your hands away. They drop. We did a lot of things that mirrored this pattern throughout the class. Twas nice.

Currently, inspired by this, my brother and I are debating who would win in a battle between Vader and Magneto. Kirk is arguing that Vader would just force choke Magneto and I'm arguing that the force choke is too slow and Magneto would just flip the lightsaber so it sliced through Vader's head. Thoughts?

Comments

[deralte.livejournal.com]

And yet Vader never masters the whole force lightning bolts so I don't think he has much of an advantage on Magneto.

[greensword.livejournal.com]

Is it in the extended canon that he can't do the lightning bolts? Because maybe he just didn't get around to using them on people during the movies.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's my headcanon (though I don't think he ever used the force lightning in any of the books). See, I figured if he could do force lightning, he'd have used it on the Emperor in Return of the Jedi or at least re-channeled it when the Emperor shocked him. (An argument could be made that he could do it before then though, but because Luke got to him, he couldn't get a grasp on it in RotJ *shrugs*)