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- Oh my God. If I were Link, I'd get killed already.
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My name is Bruce Wen.
I am a Shaolin martial arts master, actor,
movie star in Asia, and also a sword expert.
When I was a kid at the Shaolin Temple,
we had to learn the different types of weapon,
and sword is one of the major ancient weapon
of the Chinese martial art.
Since five years old, I started to learn the Chinese sword.
And so my experience,
I cannot say I'm the best in the video game,
but, of course, I am very into it.
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Okay, he parries with the, with the, with the shield
and then he chops with the sword.
So 'parry' is basically when, ah, when someone blocks up
in a 45-degree angle,
either with a sword or with a shield,
protecting himself from the head.
When he slices in a 45-degree angle going like that,
you're actually making a diagonal cut,
and diagonal cut is really, really...
Like, it hurts more than a straight cut.
Oh, he's striking him in the stomach!
Oh my God! Oh my God!
Look, he slices him in a 45-degree angle from top to bottom.
Oh, that's a great technique that we used to do
when we cut trees back in, back then.
The fight is very, very realistic
'cause there's not much, like, acrobat in it.
The sword and shield is one part of the Chinese...ar...
...one part of the martial arts skill back then.
Like, in the army when they're fighting, I mean,
they normally carry one shield to block.
The sword is used to hit, used to strike the enemy.
So that technique is really, really, really awesome.
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Holding the sword with the left hand,
and right hand with the shield.
Striking forward.
Look at that. He's cutting the enemy
from top to bottom...Oh.
Practical, practical, slicing 45-degree angle.
Now he's cutting it. He's cutting it.
Now, let's see what he does.
Is he gonna slice him in half
or strike him, strike him, strike him, strike?
Oh, okay. Okay, okay.
I think that that's a little bit big.
The enemy is a little bit big.
That one is a little bit unrealistic,
'cause now you got so many big enemy,
and then he is basically flipping,
but his sword is like that, you know.
On a real situation, I mean,
you're not gonna be flipping around
and cutting upside down, you know?
Link's way of trying to cut the armor off
is an amazing thing
because he wants enemy to have one less things
to defend himself,
so he can actually slice them in half afterward, you know?
Yeah, I think it is a great way for him to do it.
If you are not flipping,
going like 45-degree angle like that,
you would do a lot of damage,
so it is practical, but without the flipping.
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Okay. He goes in with, oh, ooh.
Okay. Now he does an aerial.
Oh my God. Aerial. Oh, aerial.
He chops both sides. So, oh, back flip on the enemy.
Oh my god. Good.
Oh, look at that. Okay. Look at that.
The enemy's blocking with the shield,
got a bigger, oh, he does a back flip, back flip back.
Oh, he does front roll and then a 360-turn on the sword
Oh my god. If I was Link, I'd get killed already.
So this one I think is overkill,
but the acrobat, he just keeps rolling, rolling,
do a 360 turn, an actual fight
when you do a 360 turn, you get knocked out,
you know? 'Cause the enemy could just kick us last year.
So when you're doing 360 turn,
you're turning your back toward the enemy.
And that is really, really not practical,
but the slicing, cutting like that, and simultaneously,
it's very, very effective.
Oh my God. Now he cuts him.
Parries him, cuts him.
Oh my God. Okay.
Now he's slicing. Strikes him, strikes him in the body.
Strikes him. Oh, now he strikes him on the stomach.
Okay. Let's see.
He's getting ready, ready, ready, good job.
Okay. He's cutting.
He's doing another back flip over his body. Again.
What Link use in the, in the, in the fight alone,
is very, very practical without the flipping.
The enemy is a little bit big on this one.
So he flips off the body.
When you're flipping on air,
I mean, people might be kicking you already.
So the speed is not as fast. You know, the blocking,
the sorta holding a sword with,
along with the enemy is what you'll use in a real situation.
If you're coming close to close, face to face, I mean,
'Cause he's trying to chop you
and you're trying to avoid being cut.
So of course you got to block up, block over the source of
to protect yourself, and in terms of striking in this one
I think it's practical. 'Cause you strike through,
he wants to go through the stomach.
And of course this one, this one and striking through.
It is an important moving resort technique.
We slice the enemy, cut the enemy,
then strike the enemy at the same time.
So that is very practical.
(swords clashing)
Wow. This is what I practiced in as a kid. I don't know too.
So I would say it is, it is realistic on this one.
'Cause you could chop this way.
He chopped the tree or the other trunk this way, going,
going down 180-degree, going this way also 90-degree,
going this way also like make 45-degrees up
and 45-degree down.
So this is really, really practical.
So that's how we practice it too
with our sword as well, too.
So very practical, very real, very awesome technique that
he has. And he does that along with us, different stances,
peppered in his hips when doing that.
So when he pivots his hip and his whole body,
the power is not just in the sword,
the power's throughout the whole body.
So it's more, you get more, much more power in it.
Nowadays when we're practicing it,
we have to use the wood, other way,
or the, the tree and sublet out. Okay.
'Cause we can't do it to a human otherwise.
So let's see what we got it. Okay.
Oh, he does a back, another back flip.
Okay.
Ooh.
Ow, she's just choppy.
Oh my God. Let's, let's see.
He's like holding, he's dancing. He's dancing,
is he shaking his butt? So yeah, this one is amazing.
Besides the flipping,
all these moves actually pretty real compared to what we
practice as a kid. 'Cause when we do this,
when he does this one holding his sword up,
it's a technique that we use to show that we have
the sword power, 'Cause in the Chinese martial,
we have what we call the Heavenly Sword.
And it's, it's the exact same technique
that we use with the Heavenly Sword.
First cut the heaven, cut the earth.
Then cut the people.
When I was learning the sword in childhood,
of course we'd get the same, exact technique.
Most of them such as striking, parrying, blocking, cutting.
And of course we would add, like, a lot of acrobatics
to our performance aspect of it.
So I think the clip is very, very amazing.
I think the Skyward Sword is most realistic,
the why, 'cause the Skyward Sword basically involves
cutting, (indistinct), striking.
It is most close to the real situation.
Of course, besides the flipping. Okay. Yeah.
Everything else besides the flipping is most close to the
situation.