Aster Jen'allé
Bio-engineered Bad queen
Vishu is a dueling style characterized by a heavy focus on counter-attack and eliminating enemy advantages.
-The Initiative: this is the thought that goes into making a strike and the advantage of starting a fighting exchange
-Attack: this is the actual strike made
-Defense: this is the reactionary move against the attack
-Counterattack: this is the strike made to kill, injure, or distance from the attacker
The Attacker uses initiative and attack, the defender reacts with defense and counter attack. According to the precepts of Vishu, the attacker in taking initiative gives up a combat focused movement. This is why in Vishu the attacker is considered to, if on even ground, be at a disadvantage. This is why to make a successful attack, an attacker should have an absolute advantage.
The four absolute advantages:
-Speed: how fast you can make a strike
-Strength: how powerful a strike is
-Positioning: the overall positioning of your body and weapon when compared to your opponent
-Knowledge: what you know about the combat situation and your opponent, as well as yourself
Speed and strength are considered physical advantages, whereas positioning and knowledge are skill advantages. Vishu aims to elimininate speed and strength as factors outright. Speed is eliminated through distancing: maintaining a proper distance allows a defender to react to the opponent regardless of their perceived speed, thus a combatant who maintains sufficient distance will never have issue with an opponent who is faster. Strength is eliminated by deflection: whereas a block requires one to have equal or greater strength, a deflection utilizes the force of a strike to redirect it away from one's self. Vishu aims to provide the user with the advantage of positioning and knowledge by reducing the capability of the other to exercise superiority in either. Advantageous positioning is maintained by tight, focused movements: wide sweeping strikes and unnecessary flourishes prove to be potential weaknesses in positioning which may be exploited. Advantageous knowledge is maintained by defending, attacking gives information on ones fighting style, speed, strength, and other potential advantages and disadvantages meaning the defender always has one more piece of knowledge than the attacker at any given time given equal footing. A defender will also be able to use the extra combat movement in order to dictate positioning in a fight.
The basic precepts of Vishu defense:
-You cannot hit what isn't there: Twisting ones body out of the way of a strike means the strike cannot hit you.
-To block requires strength the same or greater than one's opponent; to deflect uses the strength of ones opponent against them: Using ones weapon to change the trajectory of an enemy strike defends one more effectively than blocking it outright.
-Attack requires more than defense: An attacker must have an absolute advantage in order to strike successfully, a defender only needs to keep the fight on even footing and they can land a strike.
-Tight movements mean consistent positioning: It is more difficult to throw someone out of positioning if their defense does not make excessive movement.
A practitioner of Vishu uses these precepts to provide an almost impenetrable defense while still maintaining the ability to counterattack.
The basic precepts of Vishu attack:
-It is more efficient to counterattack than to attack: If one takes on the role of defender, they can attack without foregoing a combat movement.
-Attack only with skill based absolute advantage: Attacking with absolute advantage means an opponent cannot make a combat movement to defend, meaning it is much less likely they can recover from your strike to counterattack.
-If an opponent gives you something; take it: Any vulnerability is an advantage you must take. A finger left astray can be broken, a leg unprotected shattered, an eye victim of poor positioning ripped from its socket.
-There is no honor in combat: In matters of life or death, no strike is dishonorable.
-Your body is a weapon: The weapon you hold is an extension of your body, but ignoring the rest of your body in combat patterns is foolish. Weaving in kicks, punches, elbows, and a variety of other techniques when useful creates a more effective and efficient fighting technique.
A practitioner of Vishu uses these precepts to focus an efficient attack that is almost impossible to defend while minimizing an opponents opportunity to gain an advantage.
Strengths:
+Very efficient
+Excellent against single targets
+Exceptional at eliminating physical advantages within opponents
+Is unorthodox, and as a result opponents are unfamiliar with it
Weaknesses:
-Not very good against blaster fire
-Not suited for defeating multiple opponents (though it is well suited for defending against multiple opponents if one has a thorough understanding of the advanced concepts of Vishu)
-Relies on the practitioner to have at least a certain degree of skill to use effectively
-Does not directly counter any specific lightsaber form
THE BASICS
In Vishu there are two roles in a fight: Attacker and Defender, each theoretically has two moves per fighting exchange.
The four phases of a fighting exchange:-The Initiative: this is the thought that goes into making a strike and the advantage of starting a fighting exchange
-Attack: this is the actual strike made
-Defense: this is the reactionary move against the attack
-Counterattack: this is the strike made to kill, injure, or distance from the attacker
The Attacker uses initiative and attack, the defender reacts with defense and counter attack. According to the precepts of Vishu, the attacker in taking initiative gives up a combat focused movement. This is why in Vishu the attacker is considered to, if on even ground, be at a disadvantage. This is why to make a successful attack, an attacker should have an absolute advantage.
The four absolute advantages:
-Speed: how fast you can make a strike
-Strength: how powerful a strike is
-Positioning: the overall positioning of your body and weapon when compared to your opponent
-Knowledge: what you know about the combat situation and your opponent, as well as yourself
Speed and strength are considered physical advantages, whereas positioning and knowledge are skill advantages. Vishu aims to elimininate speed and strength as factors outright. Speed is eliminated through distancing: maintaining a proper distance allows a defender to react to the opponent regardless of their perceived speed, thus a combatant who maintains sufficient distance will never have issue with an opponent who is faster. Strength is eliminated by deflection: whereas a block requires one to have equal or greater strength, a deflection utilizes the force of a strike to redirect it away from one's self. Vishu aims to provide the user with the advantage of positioning and knowledge by reducing the capability of the other to exercise superiority in either. Advantageous positioning is maintained by tight, focused movements: wide sweeping strikes and unnecessary flourishes prove to be potential weaknesses in positioning which may be exploited. Advantageous knowledge is maintained by defending, attacking gives information on ones fighting style, speed, strength, and other potential advantages and disadvantages meaning the defender always has one more piece of knowledge than the attacker at any given time given equal footing. A defender will also be able to use the extra combat movement in order to dictate positioning in a fight.
The basic precepts of Vishu defense:
-You cannot hit what isn't there: Twisting ones body out of the way of a strike means the strike cannot hit you.
-To block requires strength the same or greater than one's opponent; to deflect uses the strength of ones opponent against them: Using ones weapon to change the trajectory of an enemy strike defends one more effectively than blocking it outright.
-Attack requires more than defense: An attacker must have an absolute advantage in order to strike successfully, a defender only needs to keep the fight on even footing and they can land a strike.
-Tight movements mean consistent positioning: It is more difficult to throw someone out of positioning if their defense does not make excessive movement.
A practitioner of Vishu uses these precepts to provide an almost impenetrable defense while still maintaining the ability to counterattack.
The basic precepts of Vishu attack:
-It is more efficient to counterattack than to attack: If one takes on the role of defender, they can attack without foregoing a combat movement.
-Attack only with skill based absolute advantage: Attacking with absolute advantage means an opponent cannot make a combat movement to defend, meaning it is much less likely they can recover from your strike to counterattack.
-If an opponent gives you something; take it: Any vulnerability is an advantage you must take. A finger left astray can be broken, a leg unprotected shattered, an eye victim of poor positioning ripped from its socket.
-There is no honor in combat: In matters of life or death, no strike is dishonorable.
-Your body is a weapon: The weapon you hold is an extension of your body, but ignoring the rest of your body in combat patterns is foolish. Weaving in kicks, punches, elbows, and a variety of other techniques when useful creates a more effective and efficient fighting technique.
A practitioner of Vishu uses these precepts to focus an efficient attack that is almost impossible to defend while minimizing an opponents opportunity to gain an advantage.
Concluding
A practitioner of the Vishu style of combat minimizes the impact of an opponents physical advantages, while making sure they can utilize their skill based advantages to win a fight even when placed against an opponent of equal or slightly greater raw skill. Vishu practitioners tend to prefer combat in short exchanges as long exchanges tend to result in chaotic and aimless strikes.Strengths:
+Very efficient
+Excellent against single targets
+Exceptional at eliminating physical advantages within opponents
+Is unorthodox, and as a result opponents are unfamiliar with it
Weaknesses:
-Not very good against blaster fire
-Not suited for defeating multiple opponents (though it is well suited for defending against multiple opponents if one has a thorough understanding of the advanced concepts of Vishu)
-Relies on the practitioner to have at least a certain degree of skill to use effectively
-Does not directly counter any specific lightsaber form
Though this does not cover the style of combat deemed Vishu in full, it provides a nice summary of the basics thereof so Jareth's (Dust's) fighting can be better understood. This is based one hundred percent off of my own martial arts experience (of which I have a grand store, and happen to be very accomplished within martial arts.) This thread can be used for training within Vishu for those who wish to follow its precepts and experience a brutally efficient form of lightsaber combat.
