Talk:High Fist

I hope you realize that even the "Drunken Fist" doesn't actually involve the practitioner getting drunk. That is a severe misconception in fiction. Martial arts, especially the Suiken, requires high levels of balance and coordination. The movements merely mimic a drunkard, it doesn't actually involve getting drunk. And just because it is shown like that in fiction doesn't mean it gives you the right to be equally ignorant on the matter. Furthermore, being high during a fight only worsens one's ability to fight. It slows down the neurons, makes it far harder to concentrate long enough to assess the situation (meaning before the druggie manages to even contemplate the opponent, the latter would have already smashed their face in, and believe me, whether they feel the pain or not, that huge hole in their face will still be there), and the body is far too relaxed to use the muscles necessary for combat. And even if being high would enhance one's ability to fight, fighting causes adrenaline to rise at great rates. And adrenaline kills a high. The feeling of being high wouldn't last long, so it becomes incredibly idiotic to model an entire fighting style around it.

And let's just ignore all of the science behind adrenaline for a moment. This article says, "Their strengths techies a user of the second gate." Which I am presuming means the High Fist deals with the second gate. The second gate is located at the brain, and assuming both are open, the heightened flow of energy (chakra in this case) in the brain would mean neurons would become accelerated, which means... yet again, one's high would disappear, since its effects would be neutralized. Again, wouldn't last long enough to be useful in a fight, let alone if the feeling of being high was even useful in a fight to begin with.

My advice? Just stick to Drunken Fist. Don't come up with an idea you think is intelligent just for the sake of creating something and feeling accomplished. --Silver-Haired Seireitou (Dosvidaniya, tovarisch.) 23:51, July 15, 2014 (UTC)