Results 1 to 6 of 6

Thread: Teras Kasi

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Apr 2003
    Location
    36th Chamber
    Posts
    12,423
    Originally posted by Judge Pen
    LOL. Probably. I bet he's giving a symposium on the various light saber dueling techniques of Jedi and Sith.
    Everyone knows that Maul uses Teras Kasi.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Apr 2003
    Location
    Knoxville Tennessee
    Posts
    5,520
    Originally posted by MasterKiller
    Everyone knows that Maul uses Teras Kasi.
    My geek question of the day:

    If Maul uses a double bladed saber (I assume that's the Teras Kasi fighting technique) and Mace Windu is supposed to know every style of fighting with sabers, does Mace have a couble-bladed saber somewhere and, if so, why doesn't he break that bad-boy out sometime?
    Quote Originally Posted by Oso View Post
    AND, yea, a good bit of it is about whether you can fight with what you know...kinda all of it is about that.

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Apr 2003
    Location
    36th Chamber
    Posts
    12,423
    Originally posted by Judge Pen
    My geek question of the day:

    If Maul uses a double bladed saber (I assume that's the Teras Kasi fighting technique) and Mace Windu is supposed to know every style of fighting with sabers, does Mace have a couble-bladed saber somewhere and, if so, why doesn't he break that bad-boy out sometime?
    Lots of people know Teras Kasi. It's an old fighting style, and has nothing to do with a preference for single or double-bladed weapons. Heck, some of them use vibro-blades (the big sticks used by Emperor's Royal Guard)>

    The Jedi are just more refined and have developed their own styles. Teras Kasi is like a "village style" as opposed to the Jedi's more sophisticated "Temple style," if that makes sense.

    And yes, some Jedi use double-bladed sabers. It's just that they are very dangerous to wield, so it takes someone with big nuts and a lot of skill to use one.

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Apr 2003
    Location
    36th Chamber
    Posts
    12,423
    Originally posted by red5angel
    MK did you read the book on him that came out a couple of years ago? I've had a hard time picking up SW books thanks primarily to Zahn but secondarily because they are so far pretty much just candy for the brain.
    Shadow Hunter is must if you like Maul.

    Using the momentum of the forward thrust, Maul dived over the collapsing droid before him, flowing smoothly into a shoulder roll. He came up twirling his lightsaber overhead, then stepped down solidly into the teräs käsi wide stance called Riding Bantha. Even as he did the movement, part of him was monitoring his body's state. His breathing was slow and even, his pulse elevated by no more than two or three beats per minute from its resting rate.

    BTW, Teras Kasi roughly translates as "Steel Hands."

    Originally posted by Judge Pen
    How many fighting styles are there?
    Hundreds.

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Jan 1970
    Location
    Fremont, CA, U.S.A.
    Posts
    47,946

    Teras Kasi

    I feel like I've just had my Star Wars nerd card revoked. How did I miss this Easster Egg?

    How ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ References the Most Awesomely Bad ‘Star Wars’ Video Game
    Posted on Friday, June 1st, 2018 by Ethan Anderton



    Solo: A Star Wars Story is chock full of winks and nods referencing future events in the Star Wars trilogy, almost to the point that it’s annoying. But there are also some obscure references for hardcore Star Wars fans that are a little more interesting. One of them comes from a single line of dialogue referencing one of the worst Star Wars video games every made…but it also has a place in the history of Star Wars and even sets up the major reveal everyone has been talking about.

    Find out what we’re talking about below, but beware of spoilers for Solo: A Star Wars Story.

    Qi’ra Shows Off Her Fighting Skills

    In Solo: A Star Wars Story, part of the plan to hijack a bunch of coaxium begins with infiltrating a mining facility on Kessel. Our heroes accomplish this by having Qi’ra offer up Han Solo and Chewbacca as slaves, allowing them to get into the facility itself. While Han and Chewie are led through the mines closer to the coaxium, Qi’ra, Tobias Beckett and Lando Calrissian’s droid L3-37 are brought into the control room to finalize their business.

    During this sequence, Qi’ra pulls off a couple unseen fight moves and takes down the facility supervisor. L3 is visibly impressed and even a little surprised as she asks, “What was that?” And Qi’ra nonchalantly says “Teräs Käsi.” That might not mean anything to the more casual Star Wars viewer, but for longtime fans, this was quite the obscure reference to throw into Solo. So what the hell is Teräs Käsi?



    Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi
    The fighting style Teräs Käsi became well-known to Star Wars fans when a PlayStation game entitled Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi hit the market. Styled in the model of fighting games like Tekken or Virtua Fighter, it was a video game that featured Star Wars characters duking it out on polygonal environments in a galaxy far, far away. Since this is a first generation PlayStation game we’re talking about, the graphics were not great and the game mechanics were clumsy at best. But **** it, was that a fun game to play with friends as an adolescent Star Wars fan.

    The fighting roster features Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia (in Boushh disguise), Chewbacca, Boba Fett, Thok (a Gamorrean guard), Hoar (a Tusek Raider) and a new character named Arden Lyn, a Dark Jedi with a mechanical arm. They all engaged in hand-to-hand combat, as well as weapon combat (which didn’t make much sense when characters like Luke with a lightsaber would fight Thok with an axe). But there was no signature fighting style between them to dictate what Teräs Käsi was. Instead, that came from Star Wars Legends.



    The History of Teräs Käsi

    The first mention of Teräs Käsi comes from a major story arc called Shadows of the Empire. One of the more well-known Star Wars Legends titles, this was an interesting experimental sort of multimedia project that was intended to tell a story that took place in-between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, where no Star Wars novel had ventured before.

    The goal at the time was to create anything and everything that might be associated with a Star Wars movie release, but without ever actually releasing a movie. This included a novel, a video game, action figures, trading cards, comics and even a soundtrack. And within the novel of Shadows of the Empire, the fighting style Teräs Käsi is mentioned as being used by the villains Sun and Zu Pike. And from there it went on to become part of the aforementioned video game that everyone loved to hate.

    However, Teräs Käsi was only a blip in Star Wars until it came to be referenced in the novel Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter. You see, after Darth Maul’s acrobatic, fast-paced martial arts style debuted in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, many thought it would be interesting if his character was trained in the art of Teräs Käsi, mostly because his fighting style was unlike any we’d seen in the Star Wars universe up to that point. After Shadow Hunter made it canon (at the time), the fighting style was referenced on and off again until it finally was given a real origin story, made to be a fighting style that allowed non-Force sensitive warriors could engage with the likes of Jedi and Sith and still hold their own. Of course, that’s all Star Wars Legends, but…



    Teräs Käsi is Now Canon
    With the mention of Teräs Käsi in Solo: A Star Wars Story, the fighting style is now canon. Funnily enough, since this was a fighting style that came to be associated with Darth Maul, the fact that Qi’ra learned it from Dryden works as a hint toward the reveal of the Sith warrior as the puppet master behind the Crimson Dawn in the film’s final act. It only makes sense that those working for Maul have been trained in a fighting style that makes them deadly enough to do his bidding.

    The question is how much, if any, of the backstory that became associated with Teräs Käsi will be made canon. Will this fighting style continue to be mentioned in Star Wars stories now that we’ve seen it in Solo: A Star Wars Story? Maybe we’ll see it pop up in other comics, books and video games. And if we’re lucky (or unlucky, depending how you look at it), maybe we’ll get a new generation remake of the original game with even more characters. Because while Star Wars Battletfront II offers us a way to have Star Wars characters from all eras of the saga to fight against each other, there’s just something…special about Masters of Teräs Käsi. Awfully special.
    thread
    Solo
    Mandalorian
    Teras Kasi
    Gene Ching
    Publisher www.KungFuMagazine.com
    Author of Shaolin Trips
    Support our forum by getting your gear at MartialArtSmart

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Jan 1970
    Location
    Fremont, CA, U.S.A.
    Posts
    47,946

    Mad props to MK

    He mentioned Teras Kasi on the OT: I bet Masterkillers' in here somewhere thread way back in 2005. I've copied those posts above.
    Gene Ching
    Publisher www.KungFuMagazine.com
    Author of Shaolin Trips
    Support our forum by getting your gear at MartialArtSmart

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •