In my Distant youth, I attended a class in self-defence for a few months. It might be said that Fighting is like riding a bicycle, but I can't remember a thing from that class! But I have written a few Stories that involve the heroine engaging in combat, of one sort of another.
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Helen and Sharon, for instance, involves both unarmed fighting—Helen showing the director what she could do—as well as sword fighting. In Alexandra, Jane has an encounter on the beach with troops from 'Bernia'. In Prisoner(!) Maia fights with the sword on several occasions; also in Jana, which I have not published yet, but which has been serialized right in this Blog. How did I do all this? Pretending. I have read a good many books about hand-to-hand combat, enough to have a few (theoretical) ideas about how it should go! You might not know, but Alexandra is set in the distant future, in a colonized planet. This does not enter the story directly, except that there are vague references to Earth culture, and artifacts that are clearly ancient, and with Earth technology, now lost. The culture on that planet has reverted to early 19th century science, and they fight with rifles, crossbows, and swords.
In Jane, or at least Jane - The Early Years, Jane and Heather learn Karate, to make a Scorpia video.
Well, I just wanted to make clear that I was writing about violence under false pretences, and not with any personal knowledge.
Kay
