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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 5560617" data-attributes="member: 92305">You missed the question, Dandu. So many people on this thread have spoken that they look at Tumbling as what you show in those videos, but also as more reasonable, more realistic forms of dodging. What you show in those videos are exactly what I think of Tumbling and why I'm having so much of a problem with it. Those are choreographed fights, impossible in real life. This is why I said I wasn't looking for Prince of Persia style wild stuff.  I want to see an example of what people think Tumbling is besides the wild and crazy Asian dance stuff. The reason: I can't think of one example of a movie fight where Tumbling is realistic.  And, when I say "realistic", I mean "heroic realistic". Bond's fights in Casino Royale are gritty and realistic in a heroic-realistic way. They are by no means examples of real hand to hand fights. For that, we have Ultimate Fighting and such.   So, the challenge remains. Can anybody think of a scene, or show me a scene, of Tumbling that isn't ultra-human, in the vein of the Asian martials arts movies?   BTW:  I'd buy the Bomb-maker chase scene in Casino Royale as a more realistic use of the Tumbling skill, especially since that type of movement is possible in real life, but I would still have a hard time trying to fathom why that type of movement, which is half the speed of normal combat movement by the game rules, would be excempt from Attacks of Opportunity. Plus, that's a chase scene, not a fight.</blockquote>

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