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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5561443" data-attributes="member: 4937">This has proven to be a really really hard challenge.It's hard to find good acrobatic moves in a realisticly shot fight scene.  Most of what I looked at either was a straight up fight between two individuals, was shot in speeded up film, was using wire work, or featured the sort of often comic highly stylized combat of Hong Kong action films.  This last one was a really tough one because Jackie Chan is the king of acrobatic evasion moves, but most of his movies - and especially the stuff from when he is young - features fights that look more like dances than fights.  I wanted to get some old Douglas Fairbanks who did alot of both acrobatic moves mixed with hyperrealistic fencing, but finding good footage of films that old to search through was tough.Still, I have some entries that come close.[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0xB8niA4Jk]YouTube - Ip Man vs 10 Black Belts..[/ame]At about 1:42 the protagonist uses a rolling move to obtain separation from an attacker on his flank, thereby negating the attack of opportunity.  The fight has some silliness typical of 1 vs. many fights where everyone stands back watching while a series of 1 on 1 fights occur, but the move itself is reasonable to me.[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rWvTloOeAY&feature=related]YouTube - Kiss of the Dragon - Police Station Fight[/ame]At about 1:16, watch Jet Li perform a manuever similar to a wrestling take down move, but with the intention not of initiating a grapple, but of moving through a large number of attackers while avoiding their club.  Also note the quick move at 1:25 where he drops to one knee to get under an attack.  Both are 'tumble' moves in my opinion, the last one being an example of a very subtle vertical manuever that nonetheless is acrobatic.Finally, this is cartoon but it's a well choreographed fight that in my opinion remains in the realm of 'D&D realism'.  [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2wEj2lvplY]YouTube - Sokka's Master[/ame]Lot's of use of tumbling as the student tries to get away from the master he's insulted.</blockquote>

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