I don’t know if you’ll get this, but I was wondering about vampire powers. I’d be specifically interested in a high level martial artist (7th Dan in aikido or equivalent) gaining abilities. It seems like most vampires use brute force to fight, and even though different techniques are required, I can’t imagine that a trained martial artist wouldn’t have a distinct advantage.
I had a long reply written up but I accidentally hit cancel and it’s gone. Argh.
Short reply:
No, wouldn’t help noticeably. Vampires have a much higher strength-to-weight ratio than humans, so using their own weight against them is a technique of negligible value. Their muscles move independently to a greater degree, so locks don’t work. They are too tough for “hitting ’em with the floor” (as my old sensei used to say) to be a worthwhile thing to do unless your aim is to destroy the floor. Etcetera. The adaptation from human martial arts required to effectively fight vampires is such that the martial artist might start out with an advantage in mental habituation to combat training (and so take to it more easily), but if you control for that there’d be no benefit.
I don’t know if you’ll get this, but I was wondering about vampire powers. I’d be specifically interested in a high level martial artist (7th Dan in aikido or equivalent) gaining abilities. It seems like most vampires use brute force to fight, and even though different techniques are required, I can’t imagine that a trained martial artist wouldn’t have a distinct advantage.
I had a long reply written up but I accidentally hit cancel and it’s gone. Argh.
Short reply:
No, wouldn’t help noticeably. Vampires have a much higher strength-to-weight ratio than humans, so using their own weight against them is a technique of negligible value. Their muscles move independently to a greater degree, so locks don’t work. They are too tough for “hitting ’em with the floor” (as my old sensei used to say) to be a worthwhile thing to do unless your aim is to destroy the floor. Etcetera. The adaptation from human martial arts required to effectively fight vampires is such that the martial artist might start out with an advantage in mental habituation to combat training (and so take to it more easily), but if you control for that there’d be no benefit.