PJ, please reconsider WW's lasso skills to be more martial looking...

[Titan Theo]

This is not bad as a base...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IPl2tFNihc

[Titan Theo]

Not that PJ will lurking in these boards, lol, but the ulimate DC warrior must have the ultimate style, not just CG effects

[Tzigone]

But her lasso skills have never been martial-arts based and, really, there's no reason thet should be. And if they were, they should be based on ancient Mediterranean martial arts. But it's a lasso and should be used in lasso-like fashion, IMO.

[FutureWonder]

That thing on the video is not a lasso anyway...

[Koriand'r]

That thing on the video is not a lasso anyway...

Still the lasso could be used that way. While watching part I could imagine Diana taking the two ends of the lasso with the rest of it behind her and rotating them like fans going in opposite directions and using them to pummel her opponent as if they were nunchucks. She could also lasso something small and heavy and swing it like Gogo in Kill Bill. Even cooler she could throw the lasso in circular slow motion so it forms a knot on one end like a mace.

[Agent Z]

Still the lasso could be used that way. While watching part I could imagine Diana taking the two ends of the lasso with the rest of it behind her and rotating them like fans going in opposite directions and using them to pummel her opponent as if they were nunchucks. She could also lasso something small and heavy and swing it like Gogo in Kill Bill. Even cooler she could throw the lasso in circular slow motion so it forms a knot on one end like a mace.

It's a different weapon from a lasso with a different function. It cannot be used the same way. The guy in the video is called "rope dart master" for a reason.

To duplicate this fighting style for Diana would require changing how and what the lasso is used for entirely. It would be like using a video of someone training with a katana to teach Diana how to use her own sword.

[Koriand'r]

It's a different weapon from a lasso with a different function. It cannot be used the same way. The guy in the video is called "rope dart master" for a reason.

To duplicate this fighting style for Diana would require changing how and what the lasso is used for entirely. It would be like using a video of someone training with a katana to teach Diana how to use her own sword.

These are comic books, Superman shouldn't be able to fly but he does. You could use a magic rope in all kinds of ways if given a chance. There's an episode of Super Friends where she called it over to her and it picked a lock and let her out of jail cell. There's an Golden Age issue of Wonder Woman where it defied physics and the law of gravity and wound itself into a series of S's and became rigid enough to be used as a ladder to rescue people from a burning building. All it takes is desire and imagination, suspension of disbelief is inherit in the medium.

[Agent Z]

These are comic books, Superman shouldn't be able to fly but he does. You could use a magic rope in all kinds of ways if given a chance. There's an episode of Super Friends where she called it over to her and it picked a lock and let her out of jail cell. There's an Golden Age issue of Wonder Woman where it defied physics and the law of gravity and wound itself into a series of S's and became rigid enough to be used as a ladder to rescue people from a burning building. All it takes is desire and imagination, suspension of disbelief is inherit in the medium.

The OP is talking about martial arts skill with the lasso not super powers. If you want to show off Diana's skills as a fighter with the lasso then just relying on its powers won't cut it.

[Koriand'r]

The OP is talking about martial arts skill with the lasso not super powers. If you want to show off Diana's skills as a fighter with the lasso then just relying on its powers won't cut it.

Uh huh, but using it to swing from lightning bolts is okay.

[Agent Z]

Uh huh, but using it to swing from lightning bolts is okay.

No one's pointing to that as a display of Diana's martial arts skills.

[Koriand'r]

No one's pointing to that as a display of Diana's martial arts skills.

"Martial arts - any of several arts of combat and self-defense that are widely practiced as sport"

"The term martial arts refers to all of the various systems of training for combat that have been arranged or systematized...In fact, the word 'martial' derives from the name Mars, who was the Roman god of war"

[Agent Z]

"Martial arts - any of several arts of combat and self-defense that are widely practiced as sport"

"The term martial arts refers to all of the various systems of training for combat that have been arranged or systematized...In fact, the word 'martial' derives from the name Mars, who was the Roman god of war"

And this disproves my point, how?

[Manakel]

It's a bit late fto complain anyway, don't you think ?

[kjn]

Checking the video, note that he isn't using a sash in and of itself. There are weights placed into both of its ends. Due to that it's more similar some form of nunchuk or a bola used in close combat than a rope or lasso.

However, if you look at the use of the lasso in the trailer, she does use it as a whip and to generate some sort of shockwave in the White Hosue (?) fight scene.

[enish]

Given how her lasso works, nothing keeps Diana from using her lariat as a ropedart or a whip.

A lasso as it is is pretty useless if you play within the limitation of its initial use. Real lassos are thick.

Nevertheless, as clever as she is, she can apply techniques from other types of rope based wepaons to her lariat.

In real life situation, a ropedart would be the most effective and versatile, because it doesn’t have the limitations of the whip which is very fragile at its end with the cracker and the lasso which is too thick to be maneuverable in combat situation.

You can turn a ropedart into a temporary lasso, but not the other way around.

I myself am a ropedart practiced, and I think it’s pretty cool, I’m much more grounded in terms of techniques, because there’s another end to the ropedart spectrum where people are more about finding a flow to it, like a circus thing, so they do more fancy things with it but it really is a weapon at the end.
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