- As I'm coming in, I'm hammering.
Bam! That's what I'm looking to do.
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- Welcome back to another episode of
Scenic Fights: Fight Scene Breakdown.
I'm Logan Lo.
- I'm Chad Vázquez.
- Today we're breaking down
one of our most requested films, The Raid 2.
Specifically Hammer Girl scene
played by Julie Estelle.
If you haven't seen the scene yet, it's one of
the most frenetic exciting scenes we've done.
On that note, viewer discretion is advised.
- Yeah, it's a messy scene so just heads up.
- Are you ready to Chad? - Let's do it.
- You ready? All right let's do it.
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- You know, when someone's wearing sunglasses
in the subway something's up.
- Like her style like the black hair
with the brown jacket.
- Are there any women you don't like Chad?
- All right, she's going, she's going.
She immediately takes the flank.
So the guy's charging in with this big
lunging thing she sees it, immediately sidesteps.
She puts herself back in the blender
but only for moment
Bam!
She did a manipulation.
Again the character Hammer Girl, she's Hammer Girl.
She's probably had a lot of time
and experience with the hammer.
So it feels comfortable doing weapon manipulation
from being in a hammer grip to an ice pick grip,
and she shoved it into the guy's kidney.
This is actually something good
we should break down.
Her assailant comes in with a straight
number one, hammers into the guy with the claw side
using the claw to hook around
clearing the way to hammer into the shoulder.
Then she does a duck under, while she does a duck
under she doesn't manipulation so that her
hammer is now in an ice pick grip.
She turns around jams that weapon in
and essentially tears out.
That tear out is possible if she doesn't
get a lot of flesh, but it is a little bit difficult.
If she went in deep she would have a lot
harder time to tear up, but we can assume
that she didn't get too much meat
tore out
and continues with her progression.
I love everything about this scene.
I loved it because again, using two weapons,
but also you'll note how quickly the weapons
change from defensive to offensive and how
all of the manipulation changes
how the weapons are used.
You have a hammer grip changing
to an ice pick grip.
You're fighting with the face of the hammer.
You're defending with the claw of the hammer.
Then you're attacking with the
claw of the hammer, awesome.
This is actually our first look at what
the Filipinos called Sinawali,
which is basically it means in Filipino to weave.
And what you're seeing is a weaving pattern.
You're seeing two weapons flowing.
So usually the weapon is either
attacking, attacking attacking, or
defending, attacking, or
simultaneously attacking.
These are all Sinawali moves, right?
Her choice of weapon changes things slightly.
While I was practicing this a number of times
I frequently found myself,
as I was doing the swing I found myself
catching every once in awhile.
You can do these double motions
pretty easily, you just have to be
cautious with the claw part of it.
But otherwise all of the motions of Sinawali
are all here, she can do that.
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- Hammer Girl dodges another weapon.
Okay, so you'll note that in this scene
Hammer Girl's hammer is down.
What she could have done is a number three strike
and we haven't talked about that before,
so let's do that now.
- Cool.
- So here, the assailants coming in
with a left-handed thrust.
Because of the angle you can't really
see what Hammer Girl's doing.
It looks kind of like she's doing a pull or a wave out
but decides to duck for some reason as well.
This is a good opportunity for us to talk
about the number three attack.
We've talked about the number one,
which is the diagonal from the right side
and the number two, which is diagonal
from the left side.
The number three is an attack that you see a lot
of really seasoned Kali people
use as an opener.
Hammer Girl could have done the pullback and also
done simultaneous number three, hammer up.
That I think would have been a more effective
and efficient option available to Hammer Girl
in that particular exchange.
Otherwise great move.
Just another option available for her.
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Hammers with her left hand
and then with a right hand
she's about to do a hard number two to the guy's face.
That was dark.
This character Hammer Girl
she's really familiar with the weapon.
She's hitting him with pretty much
the entirety of the hammer.
That's how comfortable she is with it.
She knows not to just hit with the head of the hammer
and the face of it,
but even the neck of it.
She does a back fist with the left hand
using the hammer.
She misses, so note offensive, now defensive.
He comes in, she attacks the shoulder
defensively, she doesn't want to get cut.
Then slide your hand down to the wrist
comes across, she does a step in
so that she can do a windup to the back of the face.
Bam! Knocking him open
and then switches her left hand
to get the claw grip and come up,
hooking the chin causing damage.
She can now look and see who's coming next.
That was another really cool,
really amazing exchange.
She finds herself in the blender,
she pulls herself out of the blender
started the flank and did the backhand.
He too was like, I'm in the blender
changed his vertical movement.
What do I mean by the blender?
As he had that weapon out, I have my weapons out.
This area is the blender.
Whenever you're in front of the person
right here, you're in the blender.
You don't want to be there
cause what happens to things in the blender,
they get chopped up.
The best attacks all happened from the flank.
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- Okay. hammer hit.
Bam!
- She's not playing around.
- Jesus Christ.
- She's upset at somebody.
- Yeah.
- Okay, so here we have another low attack.
So this low attack we call a number seven.
She does a number seven
with her left hand to the knee.
Hammer Girl is doing some really great
targeting here.
On the number seven attack
because she has a blunt object,
she's attacking bone.
As we talked about in Donnie Yen's Kill Zone.
If I have a blunt object,
I'm really going for bone.
If I have an edged to weapon,
I'm really going for the muscle.
Edge weapon I want to cut.
I want to cut muscle, sinew, arteries.
When I have a blunt object
I want to crush, crack, shatter splinter bone.
That's what I'm looking to do.
Here, she has a blunt object.
So what is she going for, instead of going
for the femoral artery, she's going for the knee.
One thing I also like about this
is how she used Sinawali
Both hands are being offensive
at the exact same time.
She's attacking and attacking.
The first one is to open up,
and the second one is to
solidify the damage.
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- She's angry.
- Oh my God.
(laughs)
- Just like when we were doing Under Siege,
when Steven Seagal plunged the weapon in,
into the fontanelle of Tommy Lee Jones' character.
That's what we're seeing here.
With a much more efficient weapon
for that particular strike actually.
Come in.
Boom! She does a duck, another number seven,
also goes straight down and literally
hammers into the guy's foot.
Okay, see that is one moment that pulled me
out of the fight because it's so unrealistic.
And we're going to talk about that in a moment.
She lifts him up, comes around
basically strikes down with her
right hammer in the claw grip,
and then basically does an unzippering.
It's as graphic as it sounds.
A zipping up is essentially a number three
or number four upward,
you're zipping the person up.
Here, you're unzipping the person down.
That happens with knife or sword,
does not happen with a claw.
Because the whole point of a claw in a hammer
as we said, is to grip.
So once that's in all she can do is
extricate the weapon out.
She can't pull it down to get it out.
She's going to pull the guy to the floor
and then she can pull it out.
But she's not unzippering him.
So that is completely not possible.
As we're about to see right now.
Now again, what Hammer Girl did was she
plunged the claw into her assailant,
and she unzipped him.
As if this was an edge blade
the edge facing downward.
Here with a hook we'll see what happens.
I'm actually genuinely curious because
there's a bit of, there's a bit
of disagreement with the crew and myself.
I feel that it's not going to come out.
I could be wrong.
They feel that I would be able to unzip.
We're about to find out.
Here we go.
(hammer plunging into meat)
Yeah. That's not going.
So it's in there, and this is precisely
why there are no war hammers that
have a claw grip.
Because this is what happens.
And I don't know how strong Hammer Girl is.
I'm not that strong,
but I'm not unzipping anything.
That's not, that's not happening.
- Now that's a kick.
- Can you do that Chad?
- I don't think I've done ballet
Logan, so I don't think so.
- I think you should apply yourself.
(laughs)
- Life is all about trying.
- Yeah
- All right here she comes in, boom! Hook.
Now she's just drumming right?
And that, that makes sense too, you're drumming.
We have that movement in Kali.
And we're going to talk about that as well.
She ignored that completely by
coming in and again, hammers
into the guy's chest downward.
That is a very, very common attack in pretty much
any weapon art that uses two weapons,
this double motion.
Because you're doubling
the amount of attacks that are happening.
This is a devastating attack, but this is more so.
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- She comes in, she still had her legs
wrapped around the guy.
It's almost like she remembered,
she's like oh yeah you.
(laughs)
- Let's just take care of you, dispatches him.
- Oh my goodness.
- And then drags that guy with the
claw of her hammer.
That part makes sense, right?
That's what the claw's for.
The claw is meant to grip.
She does a lot of these almost drumming motions
and that works well for her character.
Hammer Girl is both deaf and mute
and also partially blind.
I can understand why she would choose the hammer
as her weapon.
Even though she's a smaller individual,
this does give you a sensory feeling, right?
You're hammering it to them.
You feel the vibrations.
There's something about drumming,
about beat right, that is very soothing.
So I can understand why she would choose to hammer.
In terms of picking a weapon that
she can get easily, inexpensively
at any point at any time.
Great choice.
However, there are a number of limitations
when it comes to the hammer.
They're not very well balanced.
And this is on purpose is it not?
Because the heavier head is
so that you can generate that additional force.
But again, it takes a lot
of forearm strength to have that
level of dexterity.
As we saw in the scene
she's able to manipulate it really easily.
Why? Familiarity with the weapon.
She's used the weapon enough
that it feels familiar to her.
So she knows how to use it.
She knows how to manipulate it safely and quickly
and efficiently each time.
That's a pro.
In terms of cons, essentially when it comes
to the shape of the weapon, that's the issue.
Let's talk about how you can
essentially strike someone with it.
You could strike someone with it, the head
or the butt, the face, or the claw,
or either cheek.
But in terms of maximum damage
the maximum damage is obviously going to be
with the face and the claw.
The issue with the face is that
it tends to slide off.
If you Google a war hammer, you'll see
that a war hammer generally has
a little protrusion in the front,
and that enables it to hammer in and drive all
of that force straight in,
rather than sliding off.
Cause that's what naturally happens.
On the flip side, you have the claw.
The purpose of the claw is essentially that,
to claw, to grip.
So when she unzips the person
or zips up the person,
horrifying I know, bear with me.
You're not able to do that because
the whole intention of the claw is to grip.
So she's able to, as you saw, pull people.
This is what she's doing with the claw.
She's actually in this instance
using the claw correctly because it grips,
She's able to pull the person down
and is able to drum the chest with both hammers.
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- Thanks so much for recommending this scene.
I loved it.
It's a great scene.
I love the Sinawali aspect of it.
I love the targeting aspect of it
how she used number seven,
how she used both weapons
both offensively defensively.
She used all parts of the weapon,
the face, the claw.
Great fight scene.
I give this scene a solid
B plus.
Thanks for watching.