Kirk amazing fight techniques

[RColtrane]

Throughout the entire series, Kirk unleashes a myriad of fighting techniques to beat his enemies in savage combats!!! Select the one(s) that amazes you the most and if you know more moves that appeared in any episode and are not listed here, let me know and they will be added.

NOTE: You can now select 3 options in the list instead of just one.

 

[Nyotarules]

How about 'Kiss the pretty woman and she will do anything you want' technique?

 

[Balok's Decoy]

My favorite isn't on this list. The "off the wall ass-to-the-face slam." He did it in Journey to Babel.

 

[JohnChod]

Is one of the choices equivalent to, 'Leap up, jump off the wall and hit the fake Andorian with your back,' move?

Just watched Journey to Babel the other day and had to wonder why the hell he did that? The fall to the floor knocked the wind out of him and left his back undefended. The knife wielding imposter took advantage and stuck him good.

EDIT: I see someone just beat me to it! I like Balok's terminology for the move better than mine.

 

[alensatemybuick1]

Voted for the karate chop; Kirk did it ALMOST as well as William Conrad / Cannon.

 

[Lowdarzz]

Gotta love that flying drop kick. Kirk-fu at its finest.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It might help if you put GIFs of each for reference.

 

[CRM-114]

Gotta love that flying drop kick. Kirk-fu at its finest.

I once read a story on a Trekmovie thread, where a guy claimed to have successfully executed a Kirk flying kick in a playground fight. Needless to say, I found it more than a little dubious. Not saying the guy was lying, but perhaps, he was exaggerating.

EDIT: I should add that he was a kid at the time of the fight.

 

[Ssosmcin]

I tried Kirk Fu in the schoolyard when I was in 6th grade. I tried the running jump kick. The other kid stepped to the side. I fell to the ground and got my ass handed to me.

I love when Shatner does his own fights. He had amazing style. "Tomorrow is Yesterday" was 100% Shatner, as were the "Triskelion" fights. The "Triskelion" teaser has amazing Kirk moves. The only thing about that sequence that doesn't convince is Kirk being subdued by the obviously weak hits by Ms. Pettyjohn. Oh, and that Chekov and Uhura are such shitty fighters.

You know who had a great karate chop/punch combo? Richard Basehart. Watching him defeat men half his age and twice his height on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a real joy. Van Williams was also very underrated in a fight, working in the shadow of the great Bruce Lee on The Green Hornet. 60's fights are the best.

 

[Nyotarules]

Chekov, Uhura and McCoy are proof that Starfleet is no military, you send ships out to explore and defend your borders with enough armaments to kill a planet and all they have to defend themselves is pretty little phasers??? Come on! I get better self defense/combat training at work and I work in an office.

 

[9gs]

Chekov, Uhura and McCoy are proof that Starfleet is no military, you send ships out to explore and defend your borders with enough armaments to kill a planet and all they have to defend themselves is pretty little phasers??? Come on! I get better self defense/combat training at work and I work in an office.

I wonder if most of that was the "times'. Realistic fight scenes on TV probably came later.

 

[geotrek]

Although I chose the "flying double-leg drop kick," (love the syntax on that BTW) if you miss your target on that one, the return position is most definitely a disadvantage.

Out-of-this-world wacky moves aside, I've always thought that the fight choreography (e.g. Day of the Dove) was pretty darn awesome on TOS. The knife hand strike (aka Karate Chop) is a proven technique; we use it in Krav-Maga all the time.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The single-handed chop. I always hear Austin Powers' "Judo chop!" in my head when I see it!

 

[feek61]

voted Karate chop; it's the one that impressed me the most as a kid

 

[The Old Mixer]

My favorite isn't on this list. The "off the wall ass-to-the-face slam." He did it in Journey to Babel.

Is one of the choices equivalent to, 'Leap up, jump off the wall and hit the fake Andorian with your back,' move?

I call it the Flying Butt Slam.

 

[Spock's Barber]

The Paradise Syndrome....where Kirk uses a tree to launch himself into a flying double leg drop kick.

 

[Vger23]

I thought I read somewhere that the fighting style used on Star Trek was insisted upon by Roddenberry, who felt that there would be unusual fighting techniques in the future. Kind of like the pointed sideburns...

 

[ItsGreen]

A couple of double techniques back to back during fights

 

[MANT!]

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l...kirk_fu_by_rabittooth-d5jnrdo_zpsirhcpzsv.jpg

 

[Timo]

Just watched Journey to Babel the other day and had to wonder why the hell he did that?

Hmm. It's towards the butt end of a demanding fight with an equal opponent. Kirk is probably dog tired already. His opponent is below him, face down. Time to choose between two low-effort moves: kicking him in the face, and using body weight to pin him down. Kirk chooses the latter, but doesn't score a hit, chiefly because an enemy who appeared stunned in fact swiftly rolls out of the way. The rest is almost history.

Had Kirk kicked the Orion in the face, the writers would have the opponent grab his ankle and achieve victory that way. Would it have looked better? It might have looked meaner, which in the context of the day wouldn't have been the same thing.

you send ships out to explore and defend your borders with enough armaments to kill a planet and all they have to defend themselves is pretty little phasers???

Aka enough armaments to kill a planet...

Timo Saloniemi