#stick fighting

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AVA: Kinds of Sticks/Stick body types

There seems to be a verity of body types that sticks come in although we've really had focus on two. So I guess I'm trying to show and categorize the sort of sticks we've seen so far.

Certain types seem to congregate in certain areas. Like the sticks we see in Stickcity vs what we see where Victim would up, As well as the sticks in the town the color gang passed through while trying to find Sec and Cho.

Type 1: Full Color Body

These are the ones we've seen the most of. These are the sort of sticks the Color Gang are as well as what we see in the majority of Stick City.

They also are known to have color-based naming system (after all it's easy for us to call them after their colors)

Type 2: Color Head

The sticks we see in a town where the Color Gang were looking for information about Rocket Corp.

Not much known about them. The appear to consistently have black bodies and colored heads, alongside having accessories on their heads.

Unsure if the Colored Heads can also have the color in their head as white but I don't see why not.

Pretty sure Agent would be a Colored Head. What with having a black body, filled in head (with white). And also a head accessory.

Type 3: Wide White/Wide Stance/No Neck

Someone else could probably come up with a better name for them. But they are seen in the village that Mitzi and Victim appear in.

Appearance wise, they are solid white. They don't seem to have necks, like their heads floats above their body. Or at least most of the time their heads are unconnected. They also seem to wear a lot of clothing. In comparison we've only seen Full Colors and Color Heads why accessories.

Hazard could maybe be one but it's a stretch. I just say this based off the wide body and lack of neck.

Type 4: Hollow Heads

We haven't seen that many of them, but the ones that are there are very important to the story.

Their bodies can come in any color like Full Colors but they have particularly big heads that are hollow on the inside.

While we haven't seen that many their are for-sure others out there that Alan didn't make.

Like this little guy.

This, alongside the fact that most of Color Heads and No Necks appear in the same area, suggests that there's probably somewhere in the Outernet that mostly has Hollowheads living there.

Type 5(?): Pixels

I'm hesitant to count this as a whole group when I only have two examples. One of them is Ballista. Pixels look pixelated.

Pixels could also be a variation on other types. The unnamed black Pixel could be a Pixelated Full Color and Ballista would be a Pixelated Color Head. (lol talking about them like this makes be feel like I'm talking about color morphs in snakes)

Type 6(?): Sketchy

I only have Primal to go off here. Similar to Pixels could be a variation.

Type 7: Shape Bodies

Don't have much to go on here either. But these two both have solid white heads and a colored shape as a body but with thin black limbs. A very clear distinctive look.

Type ???: IDK man

Hazard! The one we've seen that really looks like this. Like I said earlier there's comparison to be made to No Necks.

This guy! Toony or whatever. From the Toon Physics shorts. Sec made him. Similar to Color Heads with a head accessory and a black thin body. However also has no neck, big fists and actual feet instead of nubs.

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Anyway that's it! I think this goes to show the verity that the sticks can come in. We don't really know much about a lot of these types because we mostly see Full Colors and where they live. But image these other types all have their own places where their common.

Could use this as inspiration to try making stick ocs that aren't just Full Colors.

[okamiwolf]

I think it could be nice to see them training together

[kitty-i-swear-to-gosh]

Me? In the Alan Becker fandom? Always 🩵

Happy Valentines Day!

[teemhaunts]

i have no idea what this is i just wanted to make somethibg

its 2:20am rn i am so sleepy

[taterpixl]

My first ever post on Tumblr: my headcanon on the US states some of Alan Becker's stick characters are from. Got more art lying around, so I'll probably upload those pieces too.

[lucilleblogs]

3 in 1 art study while school’s killing me wooo

Was supposed to be something else but ended up heavily referencing GG vs Oxob lmao

And have this similar doodle version I did during school

Slowly but surely improving in art YIPPEE

[flipnotemuseum]

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[chouupham]

I got bored in class soooo...

King orange 💕🥺

[badgerdoesstufff]

JAY!!! Hello stick figure fandom it’s been a while

Back to drawing stick figures after a year long break cuz I need this punk for a school assignment

[harlequin-eldritchkin]

HAMMER HARLEEN AND THE FISTS OF CLOWNING (FREE FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION)

I have been looking for what martial arts Harley Quinn may have learned as she is seen going toe-to-toe with the likes of Catwoman, Nightwing, Batgirl, Lord Death Man, and Batman, to name a few. All that comes up is her backround in gymnastics and learning from the Bat Family, and her aggression and fearless approach of being a wild card. She is a scrapper, but Batman and Nightwing are too skilled to be beaten by a simple scrapper. So, what is her fighting secret?

Source: Pinterest. If you know the artist, please let me know and I will credit their work.

What I am about to present is not canon, and I do my best to stick to canon because this is about Harley Quinn and how she is presented in popular culture and not my fantasies, but martial arts was my first love ♡. I have spent over 30 years training and studying various forms of martial arts from books to learning under local masters, so I have more than a basic understanding of the Fist.

Source: Harley's hammer from a keychain I bought.

First, we all know she had a backround in gymnastics and was a criminal psychologist that worked in Gotham, where crime is the rule and not the exception. With that, before she was the Maiden of Mischief, she was just Dr. Harleen Quinzel, so it would be logical that she took self defense classes. She also grew up in New York and is Jewish, so Krav Maga, an Israeli self-defense art inspired by Israeli military hand-to-hand combat, would make the most sense. Krav Maga is also one of the more popular and efficacious self defense systems in the United States.

Krav Maga uses open hand strikes, clinches, knees, elbows, weapons disarms, and evasion tactics. They also teach eye gouging, throat and groin strikes, as well as grappling defense. Being a military art, it is based on survival and not for sport or beauty like prize fighting or traditional martial arts.

Source: Harley VS. Apokolips

Although she was a gymnast, gymnastics does not teach fighting, but there are martial arts that combine gymnastics and fighting, the most famous being Wushu and Shaolin Kung Fu. There is an ancient kung fu method called Yi Jin Jing, or Muscle Tendon Change Classic, which is influenced by Yoga and combines a mix of flexibility and strength exercises.

Shaolin Kung Fu combines acrobatics, gymnastics, iron body, animal forms, weapons forms, meditation, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. I wouldn't go as far as saying she trained in China, but New York has a large martial arts community and its own Shaolin Temple, so it is a possibility.

Source: Google. Young Sifu Shi Yan Ming training in Shaolin Temple. He runs the New York branch of Shaolin.

Another style that involves acrobatics and kung fu, which is one of my favorite styles, is Drunken Boxing.

It isn't a single style. It is taught to intermediate to advanced students once they have mastered the basics of their style. It has a mix of tumbling, jumping, spinning, flipping, and deceptive tactics and techniques based on the movements of a drunkard.

Sources: Jackie Chan, Drunken Master 2, Gordon Liu, Shaolin Drunken Monk.

Finally, we have her weapons. Her most notable being her bat and (oversized) mallot.

Source: Harley Quinn Animated Series

The Irish have a stick fighting style called "bataireacht" which uses a shillelagh, a hard wood (blackthorn) stick with a natural nob as a handle that is good for hooking and smashing, such as smashing a skull.

Source: irelandjournal.typepad.com

Of course, swinging a bat at someone is a very effective way to end almost any fight.

Source: Harley Screws Up the DCU

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Drifts and Andre

[bpcloas]

Calinda stick fighters in Port of Spain, Trinidad, February 1975. Photgraphs by Nick DeWolf.

[hysov]

spedran tru the first 4 prompts of Sticktober 😭