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?

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Re: Vader Versus Magneto

[deralte.livejournal.com]

I think it largely depends on who has the edge in terms of knowing the other person's weakness, and I think that edge goes to Magneto since he'd know Vader was made of metal while Vader without being able to sense Magneto's mind, wouldn't be aware of Magneto's powers or aware that the helmet blocked the force.

I always thought Vader wasn't in tune enough with the dark side to manage decent force lighting.

I think that if neither of them were quick enough, it would just end up a stalemate with each one 'blocking' the other from doing things. But Magneto has the advantage if he acts fast.