Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140731183322/@comment-3410435-20140908064256

Angren Túrë wrote: Capoeira is very hard-hitting (its most powerful kick can deliver nearly 9000 N of force), even though it sacrifices a lot of speed for stealth. Problem is, Mercury's moves so far look a lot more functional, whereas Capoeira practically requires the ability to breakdance while fighting. That's because it isn't Capoeira. His style is Tae Kwon, as said on the wiki itself. Tae Kwon works on using complex movements, chambering, and positioning in order to overwhelm a foe with multiple kicks. His kicks hit very hard, Pyrrha is just an adept user of her martial arts skill so he went in not looking for battle but to test to see how far she could wager in a fight against their leader. Also, he didn't use his boosters in that battle, so what probably will happen is that they can act as both "flight-like" weapons or double-jumpers. They can empower kicks, such as right upon impact boosting the force of a kicks thrusting power (like a soccer kick, or a roundhouse which was said earlier in this discussion) but also the turning power, which allows him to flow into each kick, making it an ideal method of combination, should he have a decent control over how the energy released from the boots bursts outward. I like this though, there have been a lot less kick fighters in animation, it should be interesting to see how Oum takes this up a notch, like we know he will.