Post by lemonLime on Feb 18, 2011 1:10:29 GMT -5
(thanks to Redleader for explaining this to me far more than I understood it before)
Up until now, we have spent little (if any) time talking about blocking. We have breifly mentioned some mouse movement that increases our odds of blocking, but have said nothing about purposely blocking. This is going to get very technical and will go into more detail than you may care to read.
First of all, the most obvious part of blocking is that both your saber and your opponents saber MUST make contact. I will go into more detail about that in a minute.
There are also certain rules of physics that apply. You have to understand that there is a hierarchy of stances when it comes to blocking and power. Red stance is obviously the most powerful stance. This means that Red stance, all other conditions aside, is next to impossible to block without using Red to block it. Next is yellow, then blue.
Here is a formula to help you understand what I mean.
Stance power:
Red > Yellow > Blue
Now. That might be easy enough to understand, but there's more. Depending on what part of the swing you are in, your power will drastically change. Stationary (Not swinging at all) has the highest block power. The power of the parts of the swing are ranked like this:
Stationary > Hit zone > Followthrough > Backswing
And yet one more thing plays into the equation. Movement affects how much power is behind your swing.
Running > Walking > Not moving
(Running + Hitzone) > (Walking + Hitzone) > (Standing Still + Hitzone) > (Running + Followthrough) > (Walking + Followthrough) > (Standing Still + Followthrough) > (Running + Backswing) > (Walking + Backswing) > (Standing Still + Backswing)
Keeping in mind that Red > Yellow > Blue above all of that.
Now. Finally. In order to block. Your swing MUST be greater than (>) or equal to your opponents swing. And your sabers MUST make contact.
All of that aside, you really can just learn how to angle your saber correctly and block a significant portion of the attacks that you want to. I will give you a basic demonstration of how to block.
LL
Up until now, we have spent little (if any) time talking about blocking. We have breifly mentioned some mouse movement that increases our odds of blocking, but have said nothing about purposely blocking. This is going to get very technical and will go into more detail than you may care to read.
First of all, the most obvious part of blocking is that both your saber and your opponents saber MUST make contact. I will go into more detail about that in a minute.
There are also certain rules of physics that apply. You have to understand that there is a hierarchy of stances when it comes to blocking and power. Red stance is obviously the most powerful stance. This means that Red stance, all other conditions aside, is next to impossible to block without using Red to block it. Next is yellow, then blue.
Here is a formula to help you understand what I mean.
Stance power:
Red > Yellow > Blue
Now. That might be easy enough to understand, but there's more. Depending on what part of the swing you are in, your power will drastically change. Stationary (Not swinging at all) has the highest block power. The power of the parts of the swing are ranked like this:
Stationary > Hit zone > Followthrough > Backswing
And yet one more thing plays into the equation. Movement affects how much power is behind your swing.
Running > Walking > Not moving
(Running + Hitzone) > (Walking + Hitzone) > (Standing Still + Hitzone) > (Running + Followthrough) > (Walking + Followthrough) > (Standing Still + Followthrough) > (Running + Backswing) > (Walking + Backswing) > (Standing Still + Backswing)
Keeping in mind that Red > Yellow > Blue above all of that.
Now. Finally. In order to block. Your swing MUST be greater than (>) or equal to your opponents swing. And your sabers MUST make contact.
All of that aside, you really can just learn how to angle your saber correctly and block a significant portion of the attacks that you want to. I will give you a basic demonstration of how to block.
LL