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Kirk school of combat

When someone stops mid-combat to fix their clothes you know they're a bad-ass!
He definitely was a bad-ass. But I wonder if that's why, or maybe Kirk slapped him so silly he forgot he was fighting and thought he was getting dressed for the morning. :)
 
He definitely was a bad-ass. But I wonder if that's why, or maybe Kirk slapped him so silly he forgot he was fighting and thought he was getting dressed for the morning. :)

The sheer power of Kirk's attack opened a temporal rift.

Sadly, "Yesterday's Kirk-Slap" was never released to the public.
 
And I have it on good authority that the story for this as-yet-missing episode is even more compelling than Requiem for a Martian!

Kor
 
I hope you include some of his strategic tricks too. The "wire across the door" trick, the "telling McCoy to fake illness" trick and the "dropping the card" trick come to mind. That always helped when he had to fight more than one person.

Also, he was smart enough to use a club when he faced a man with 5 times his strength (Khan).
There was also the innocently fluffing the pillow then throwing it at your enemy tactic that he used in "Friday's Child".

Don't forget the nice scissor leg lock Kirk put on Khan's head.

The fight where Kirk was the most vicious, that I can remember, was the beating he put on Wyatt Earp. Each one of Kirk's punches was savagely ferocious.
 
Lol! Of course! Shatner's outstanding physicality was a major part of the Kirk persona. My personal favorite is the "one leg falling down kick" or its two-legged variant, but there are many others. Would love, love, love to see your videos.
I'll assemble a team of skilled warriors and chop them down one by one, methodically breaking apart each graceful step.
 
So advanced as to be completely incomprehensible to our limited twentieth (at the time) century perceptions!

Kirk's combat tactics clearly extend into subspace.

Of course, by the 24th century Kirk's combat tactics along with many other forms of subspace weaponry had been banned by all civilized races, as noted in Insurrection.
Kirk is somewhat like the electron, jumping to different energy levels instantaneously.
 
My favorite Kirk hand-to-hand moment is when he is fighting the Andorian (Orion spy) in the corridor in "Journey to Bable" and he just sort of hurls his entire body through the air at his opponent, stunning himself and resulting in his getting stabbed.
The Flying Butt Slam™.
 
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Roddenberry wanted the hand-to-hand combat to look different, reflecting "advanced techniques" of the future.

The distant bell that rings for me is a line from one of the James Blish paperback adaptions, and I can't remember how it went. But it was something about Kirk using "space age" martial arts technique that was better than what we have today. I'd love to see it again if someone can find the reference. I have the books but not the time.
 
It's a shame we never got to see Kirk fight Chuck Norris. That could be an entire season of the show!

No franchise could handle that level of excitement. The Enterprise...or earth would end up exploding as a result of all of their A-type energy clashing.

You lost me there. Kato would have had Kirk out before he knew what hit him.

Ahh, but the wild card is Kirk's proven, great strategic mind, and that might be able to throw Kato off long enough for Kirk to do the same thing he did to Khan.
 
In our cursory overview of what we have termed "Kirk-do" (the way of being Kirk), my brother and I noted the importance of furniture.
When Kirk is losing, there is no furniture nearby. And often the turning point in a fight is the discovery of furniture: perhaps a low bench Kirk can step onto and then jump off of.
His fighting style seems heavily dependent on such moves to the point that he is significantly impaired fighting in an environment with no furniture.
 
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