Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-2182964-20151205174614/@comment-2089817-20151205180949

Well, based on what you've told me, he's a predominantly hard-type fighter, I take it? Taekwondo and Capoeira, in particular, are strongly leg-based as well and feature many circular kicks. So you may want to expand on kicking techniques, but not one-shots either. The shared trait of the three fighting styles you mentioned above is that they all focus on chaining moves together. Every move, whether it lands a hit or not, is a follow-up for the next move. You don't see that too often in Karate, for instance. Of course, every martial art teaches you not to depend on one move to save the day, even Karate, but many martial arts, you'll notice, are very rigid when you compare them to Taekwondo or Capoeira.

It's because each move is standalone in Karate. You'll of course have follow-up attacks and movements, but each move is generally independent on one another. In Taekwondo, traditional Taekwondo that is, each move's strength is built upon the momentum of the previous move. If the first kick misses, the next kick will take advantage of that built-up torque and momentum to deliver an equally, if not even more powerful, blow.

You may want to capitalize on how Garret chains his moves together. I see that you've already done that, sort of, for the Tekken, since it's the end of a four-move combination. But you see, if you'll notice, Tekken is one of those standalone moves I mentioned above. I say this because I'm looking at the combination you mentioned, "a four-strike combination involving three swift jabs to a foe's torso and a thrust kick to knock them back", you wouldn't want to go into a punch like Tekken after using a thrust kick. I say this from experience. Why? Because as I'm sure you know as well, thrust kicks involve very little hip rotation and are more of a snapping motion of the body forward. In other words, the forward momentum is already spent, meaning you need to build up MORE to pull off this finishing Tekken move. Not very efficient, in my opinion. Instead, right after a thrust kick, I would personally consider using either a spinning back fist, which takes advantage of that spent forward motion to engage in a spinning motion that builds upon it, or an elbow strike that continues the natural motion forward. After a thrust kick, you'd be able to easily pull off an elbow strike in succession, since it only requires an additional snapping of the hips, but a punch requires much more than that to be effective, which is why I don't think it works well in that combination.

So this is what I suggest you explore in order to sharpen up his martial arts. I hope this was helpful.