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What is the name of the style of holding a sword in your hand upside down so that the hilt points up? This is the way Preston holds a sword in Equilibrium. Also any sword fighting resources on the net someone could link me to would be really useful thanks

in the commentary the director calls it the style of the drunken master or something like that, he did say the japanese name... i just can't remember it

It depends on what school you are talking about, the two most common names are "earth" style and "down-hand" though different schools of sword fighting have different names for it.

Grey Fox does the same in MGS.

Coming from someone who duelled in university (mainly fencing), it's called the, "Whoa, I've just been stabbed" style.

It's fairly good, but it needs a bit more skill to use well compared to the more traditional styles. You sacrafice reach, but gain a good deal in terms of your circle.

Zac Naloen wrote:in the commentary the director calls it the style of the drunken master or something like that, he did say the japanese name... i just can't remember it :lol:

Ichi the Blind Swordsman. Main character in a bunch of Japanese movies I've enver seen. I've heard that there was one with Toshiro Mifune in it. I've got to track that one down one of these days.

Usually it's just called "Stupid"

Drooling Iguana wrote:

Zac Naloen wrote:in the commentary the director calls it the style of the drunken master or something like that, he did say the japanese name... i just can't remember it

Ichi the Blind Swordsman. Main character in a bunch of Japanese movies I've enver seen. I've heard that there was one with Toshiro Mifune in it. I've got to track that one down one of these days.

Zatoichi, actually. IIRC, he was a real swordsman.

Surrender is the common term.

Keevan_Colton wrote:It's fairly good, but it needs a bit more skill to use well compared to the more traditional styles. You sacrafice reach, but gain a good deal in terms of your circle.

'circle'?

JodoForce wrote:

Keevan_Colton wrote:It's fairly good, but it needs a bit more skill to use well compared to the more traditional styles. You sacrafice reach, but gain a good deal in terms of your circle.

'circle'?

your defensive circle, i think, its not a very offensive style.

When fighting, the better you are, the smaller your circle, you can see an example of this for those who need visual aids, in the begining of blade. The distance that Blade marks with the tip of his sword, represents his circle, that is the distance at which he can cofortably defend against opponents. The smaller your circle the nearer someone can get without affecting your ability to fight them effectively.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:

Drooling Iguana wrote:

Zac Naloen wrote:in the commentary the director calls it the style of the drunken master or something like that, he did say the japanese name... i just can't remember it :lol:

Ichi the Blind Swordsman. Main character in a bunch of Japanese movies I've enver seen. I've heard that there was one with Toshiro Mifune in it. I've got to track that one down one of these days.

Zatoichi, actually. IIRC, he was a real swordsman.

I thought that the movies were called Zaotichi, but the guy himself was just Ichi. I could be wrong, though, since I don't know much about those movies beyond what I read on stomptokyo.com.