Post by songstress on Nov 10, 2006 1:00:51 GMT -5
Due to the extremely cold climate of the Snow, the village never really focused on Taijutsu as their main form of fighting, however they quickly learned that in order to be accepted as a powerful nation they needed their own style of Taijutsu. As such, the Hyoushu was born. The Hyoushu is a style peculiar to the Snow, in the fact that it is not a speed based fighting style, nor is it a style meant for flexibility. The main focus of the Frozen Fist is to harden one’s body to accept damage like ice, and to use one’s fists to break down barriers with the strength of an iceberg.
The actual fighting stance is composed of one open palm, and one closed palm. The open palm is held out in front of the user at arms’ length with the fingers pointing to the sky, and the closed fist is held back at the waist. The foot on the same side as the open palm will take a more forward position with the toe pointing at the opponent, while the foot that is on the same side as the closed fist will be just over shoulder width behind the front foot, and be at a 90 degree angle with the front foot. The entire upper body is facing sideways away from the opponent except for the head, which is, of course, looking at the opponent.
The open palm is called "the blinding palm", for the reason that a user of this style uses that palm, not to attack the opponent directly, but to blind his opponent. However, the palm can still be used to attack and cause damage, only not nearly as much as the closed fist, "the striking fist". The striking fist is used as the hammer; it holds most of the user’s power and does the most damage in the whole style. A normal attack pattern of this style is to allow your opponent to attack, simply step into the attack to nullify some of the damage and place your palm, (roughly perhaps, or simply enough to block the eyes of the opponent), and then step in with your striking fist and lay the opponent on the ground with a nice hardened fist.
A short description of each area in the below stages. Striking refers to the technique of the striking fist. How well you can aim and place blows with your striking fist. Blinding refers to your open palm, and how well you can maneuver it into the eyes of your opponent in order to render them somewhat blind as to what you plan to do with your striking fist. Toughness will refer to the toughness of your skin, and how well you are able to step into blows to nullify their damage to you. The toughness comes from the Hyoushu method of training the skin through repeated hits, making calluses spring up around all different parts of the body that will normally be hit often.
Basis: Taijutsu
Stage One
Requirements: Strength 6, Stamina 2
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
The user at this stage understands basic striking motions and attack patterns, he also knows the general area of where to hit targets to cause some more damage. His accuracy isn’t that excellent, but he is decent at hitting large targets. The blinding palm at this stage has no real effectiveness. A user can use the palm as a light sort of jab at his opponents face, but beyond that he can do nothing more than hold his palm out there.
At this stage the user has not yet learned how to turn an enemies’ power away from his body, nor has he trained his skin into anything tougher than that of a normal shinobi. There is no advancement in how tough a user is at this stage.
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Stage Two
Requirements: Strength 10, Stamina 4, Tactics 6
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
At this stage the accuracy of the striking fist has improved greatly, one could easily aim for certain parts of the body and hit them nine times out of ten. Technique, however, has not improved any, leaving the user with good accuracy in his blows, but no real order or manner of using them efficiently. The palm at this stage gains a little bit more mobility as the user here learns how to weave figure eights in the air with his palm in order to lull the enemy somewhat. This allows him to draw a little bit closer without the opponent noticing as easily. The palm itself still is not very effective at blocking the opponents’ vision however.
Toughness is where this stage takes off. The user has learned more about the technique of stepping into attacks as they are thrown at them in order to nullify the damage. Of course, at this stage this hasn’t been perfected and the user isn’t very good at this, he is still able to do it from time to time. The user’s skin is also somewhat tougher through his constant training in the cold. He can take hits much more easily and feel them, but ignore the pain to some extent (this mostly works on characters with Taijutsu of only stage one or two).
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Stage Three
Requirements: Strength 15, Stamina 5, Tactics 8
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
Accuracy of the punch is now perfect at this stage, and the user is also learning more tactics at this stage. He can now combine attacks with his blinding palm in order to help him hit his opponents more easily. The blinding palm at this stage is now actually beginning to see its true form in the fact that the user now starts to use this palm to blind his opponents. The only way that the user knows at the moment to blind his opponent is to attempt to move in slowly so that he doesn’t alarm his opponent by rushing at him, all the while keeping his palm at the opponent’s head level.
The user learns more about stepping into a blow to nullify some of the power behind it and his skin starts to take on the qualities of a strong frost. Not any of the coldness unless he has been outside for long periods of time, just some of the toughness. Normal hits start to become more easily blocked by parts of the body, freeing up movement towards the opponent.
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Stage Four
Requirements: Strength 25, Stamina 13, Speed 5, Tactics 14
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
The user is now more used to using both his hands at the same time and his striking fist is now more efficient at hitting his opponents just after the blind has been taken away. The technique itself sees no real upgrade other than just better fluency and use of both hands. The blinding palm doesn’t see much of an upgrade at this stage, however it is now more useful as a means of blocking attacks than it was previously. It now takes on an Aikido like ability in turning away the user’s opponents if they rush at him. None of the throws or grabs of Aikido, more like the ability to push an opponent aside or away from the user if he is rushed.
Toughness increases slightly here as the user’s skin begins to harden more than a light frost. His skin is now tough enough from training that kunai and shuriken will now only just be able to break the skin and do little damage. The user also now sees a small decrease in speed to accompany the new calluses beginning to cover his body more and more.
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Stage Five
Requirements: Strength 25, Stamina 20, Speed 11, Tactics 16
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
The striking fist is now at the top of its game as far as efficient use and accuracy go. The user is able to strike wherever he would like to exactly when his blinding palm is removed from in front of his opponents face. Opponents with quick Taijutsu can still escape this attack unless they decide to take the Hyoushu on at close range. At this stage the user is adept at using his blinding palm in many different ways. He can now step into an attack and place his open palm against a opponents’ eyes, all the while stepping in with his other foot and striking with his fist at the same time.
Toughness at this stage is the perfection of stepping into a blow to nullify the damage. The skin of the user is now completely callused over, hardening the body to most blows that will come at the user. Kunai and shuriken are now a mere nuisance, but other edged weapons like Katana and Wakizashi can still slice through the user’s callused body. His body now appears to be made of hardened frost to his opponents, and he has another decrease in his movement and attack speeds.
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Stage Six
Requirements: Strength 30, Stamina 28, Speed 17, Tactics 22, Willpower 14
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
The fist itself is now hardened with the calluses attained by using this style and becomes like a fist made of ice. The user’s hits are entirely efficient and both of his hands work together as though they were one hand on the same mission. His attacks may be slow, but they are tactically sound. All he needs is one hit to connect. The blinding palm is a constant nuisance to the opposing shinobi. It is constantly pushing its way into the view of the opponent, blocking sight and disrupting his vision. Also, on this stage the user learns to utilize the calluses on his blinding palm hand and can now use chopping attacks with that hand if he so chooses.
This stage of toughness brings the user down to a speed where he cannot actually chase after opponents or move with any real speed; however he can take attacks through the sheer toughness of his skin and the ability to move into an attack that is coming at him to nullify the attack at its point of origin. This stage makes a user of the Hyoushu an ultimate close range fighter.
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Stage Seven
Requirements: Strength 40, Stamina 40, Speed 19, Tactics 26, Willpower 18
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
Striking Fist and Blinding Palm are no longer referred to as different and separate parts of the body. They work and act as one, and for all intents and purposes they are one. The palm is now more than a mere nuisance, as it can now be used for open palm strikes and side handed chops to an opponent's body. The damage caused may not be as much as that of the Striking Fist's, but it is still a force to be reckoned with.
A user at this stage is also now able to deflect katana and wakizashi from his body with various hand and body movements, however a direct slash can still slice through the body.
Stance Description
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Technique
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Special Technique
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The actual fighting stance is composed of one open palm, and one closed palm. The open palm is held out in front of the user at arms’ length with the fingers pointing to the sky, and the closed fist is held back at the waist. The foot on the same side as the open palm will take a more forward position with the toe pointing at the opponent, while the foot that is on the same side as the closed fist will be just over shoulder width behind the front foot, and be at a 90 degree angle with the front foot. The entire upper body is facing sideways away from the opponent except for the head, which is, of course, looking at the opponent.
The open palm is called "the blinding palm", for the reason that a user of this style uses that palm, not to attack the opponent directly, but to blind his opponent. However, the palm can still be used to attack and cause damage, only not nearly as much as the closed fist, "the striking fist". The striking fist is used as the hammer; it holds most of the user’s power and does the most damage in the whole style. A normal attack pattern of this style is to allow your opponent to attack, simply step into the attack to nullify some of the damage and place your palm, (roughly perhaps, or simply enough to block the eyes of the opponent), and then step in with your striking fist and lay the opponent on the ground with a nice hardened fist.
A short description of each area in the below stages. Striking refers to the technique of the striking fist. How well you can aim and place blows with your striking fist. Blinding refers to your open palm, and how well you can maneuver it into the eyes of your opponent in order to render them somewhat blind as to what you plan to do with your striking fist. Toughness will refer to the toughness of your skin, and how well you are able to step into blows to nullify their damage to you. The toughness comes from the Hyoushu method of training the skin through repeated hits, making calluses spring up around all different parts of the body that will normally be hit often.
Basis: Taijutsu
Stage One
Requirements: Strength 6, Stamina 2
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
The user at this stage understands basic striking motions and attack patterns, he also knows the general area of where to hit targets to cause some more damage. His accuracy isn’t that excellent, but he is decent at hitting large targets. The blinding palm at this stage has no real effectiveness. A user can use the palm as a light sort of jab at his opponents face, but beyond that he can do nothing more than hold his palm out there.
At this stage the user has not yet learned how to turn an enemies’ power away from his body, nor has he trained his skin into anything tougher than that of a normal shinobi. There is no advancement in how tough a user is at this stage.
Technique
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Special Technique
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Stage Two
Requirements: Strength 10, Stamina 4, Tactics 6
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
At this stage the accuracy of the striking fist has improved greatly, one could easily aim for certain parts of the body and hit them nine times out of ten. Technique, however, has not improved any, leaving the user with good accuracy in his blows, but no real order or manner of using them efficiently. The palm at this stage gains a little bit more mobility as the user here learns how to weave figure eights in the air with his palm in order to lull the enemy somewhat. This allows him to draw a little bit closer without the opponent noticing as easily. The palm itself still is not very effective at blocking the opponents’ vision however.
Toughness is where this stage takes off. The user has learned more about the technique of stepping into attacks as they are thrown at them in order to nullify the damage. Of course, at this stage this hasn’t been perfected and the user isn’t very good at this, he is still able to do it from time to time. The user’s skin is also somewhat tougher through his constant training in the cold. He can take hits much more easily and feel them, but ignore the pain to some extent (this mostly works on characters with Taijutsu of only stage one or two).
Stance Description
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Stage Three
Requirements: Strength 15, Stamina 5, Tactics 8
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
Accuracy of the punch is now perfect at this stage, and the user is also learning more tactics at this stage. He can now combine attacks with his blinding palm in order to help him hit his opponents more easily. The blinding palm at this stage is now actually beginning to see its true form in the fact that the user now starts to use this palm to blind his opponents. The only way that the user knows at the moment to blind his opponent is to attempt to move in slowly so that he doesn’t alarm his opponent by rushing at him, all the while keeping his palm at the opponent’s head level.
The user learns more about stepping into a blow to nullify some of the power behind it and his skin starts to take on the qualities of a strong frost. Not any of the coldness unless he has been outside for long periods of time, just some of the toughness. Normal hits start to become more easily blocked by parts of the body, freeing up movement towards the opponent.
Stance Description
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Technique
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Special Technique
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Stage Four
Requirements: Strength 25, Stamina 13, Speed 5, Tactics 14
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
The user is now more used to using both his hands at the same time and his striking fist is now more efficient at hitting his opponents just after the blind has been taken away. The technique itself sees no real upgrade other than just better fluency and use of both hands. The blinding palm doesn’t see much of an upgrade at this stage, however it is now more useful as a means of blocking attacks than it was previously. It now takes on an Aikido like ability in turning away the user’s opponents if they rush at him. None of the throws or grabs of Aikido, more like the ability to push an opponent aside or away from the user if he is rushed.
Toughness increases slightly here as the user’s skin begins to harden more than a light frost. His skin is now tough enough from training that kunai and shuriken will now only just be able to break the skin and do little damage. The user also now sees a small decrease in speed to accompany the new calluses beginning to cover his body more and more.
Stance Description
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Stage Five
Requirements: Strength 25, Stamina 20, Speed 11, Tactics 16
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
The striking fist is now at the top of its game as far as efficient use and accuracy go. The user is able to strike wherever he would like to exactly when his blinding palm is removed from in front of his opponents face. Opponents with quick Taijutsu can still escape this attack unless they decide to take the Hyoushu on at close range. At this stage the user is adept at using his blinding palm in many different ways. He can now step into an attack and place his open palm against a opponents’ eyes, all the while stepping in with his other foot and striking with his fist at the same time.
Toughness at this stage is the perfection of stepping into a blow to nullify the damage. The skin of the user is now completely callused over, hardening the body to most blows that will come at the user. Kunai and shuriken are now a mere nuisance, but other edged weapons like Katana and Wakizashi can still slice through the user’s callused body. His body now appears to be made of hardened frost to his opponents, and he has another decrease in his movement and attack speeds.
Stance Description
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Technique
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Special Technique
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Stage Six
Requirements: Strength 30, Stamina 28, Speed 17, Tactics 22, Willpower 14
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
The fist itself is now hardened with the calluses attained by using this style and becomes like a fist made of ice. The user’s hits are entirely efficient and both of his hands work together as though they were one hand on the same mission. His attacks may be slow, but they are tactically sound. All he needs is one hit to connect. The blinding palm is a constant nuisance to the opposing shinobi. It is constantly pushing its way into the view of the opponent, blocking sight and disrupting his vision. Also, on this stage the user learns to utilize the calluses on his blinding palm hand and can now use chopping attacks with that hand if he so chooses.
This stage of toughness brings the user down to a speed where he cannot actually chase after opponents or move with any real speed; however he can take attacks through the sheer toughness of his skin and the ability to move into an attack that is coming at him to nullify the attack at its point of origin. This stage makes a user of the Hyoushu an ultimate close range fighter.
Stance Description
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Technique
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Special Technique
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Stage Seven
Requirements: Strength 40, Stamina 40, Speed 19, Tactics 26, Willpower 18
Bonus: Strength +5, Stamina +4
Striking Fist and Blinding Palm are no longer referred to as different and separate parts of the body. They work and act as one, and for all intents and purposes they are one. The palm is now more than a mere nuisance, as it can now be used for open palm strikes and side handed chops to an opponent's body. The damage caused may not be as much as that of the Striking Fist's, but it is still a force to be reckoned with.
A user at this stage is also now able to deflect katana and wakizashi from his body with various hand and body movements, however a direct slash can still slice through the body.
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