aaaaaaahhhhhhh.....i will reply to myself because i have asked such an interesting question! but, alas! i still do not know the answer! o well... maybe on of you mortal kombat freaks will answer me........ yeah so bye 4 now......BUT I'LL BE BAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!

They are all real. Well, maybe most of them. But I think they are all real!

Oni and Netherealm don't exist. Crab is fiction, too. Snake, Crane, Judo and Aikido are a potpourri of a bit everything (real judo, for instance, doesn't involve punching and kicking!). I think the rest is real. Okay, and the Kori Blade doesn't exist either :p.

Q

Crab is real, I remember reading about it somewhere. It's a strange martial art, but it IS real. Believe it or not Hung gar is also real (I'm pretty sure it's pronounced 'Hoon-gar', not 'Hun-gar').

All of Drahmin's styles (Oni, Netherrealm and Iron Club) aren't real (not the way Drahmin uses his Iron Club, anyway).

Kori Blade isn't real...BUT there's a very similar sword fighting technique.

Pulse Blade obviously isn't real, but Cyrax does use it similarly to a Straight Sword.

As VQ said, Snake, Crane, Judo and Aikido (Muay Thai can also fall into this category) have been changed just slightly. Not by very much though, they are mostly pretty close to their real versions. Ninjitsu is the opposite...it's lacking from it's real version. Real Ninjitsu involves much more kicking techniques.

White_Pointer

Yup Crab is a real style. It is a form of Kung-Fu and is somewhat related to various other animal styles. i'm hopeing a few more obsure forms like this appear in the next one....like Sindel using Spider Fist.

Im not sure if Steel Fans is real (kitanas weapons).

But from what Ive seen the styles (the real ones) are all almost 100% true to the real fighting styles. I actually just read some articule of Kenpo that is being thaught here and many of the pics and descriptions of the style are the way Sonya does. I used to do Tae Kwon Do and it had a lot of the things she does.

queve Wrote: Im not sure if Steel Fans is real (kitanas weapons).

Yup Steel Fans are real.

White_Pointer

Xing yi differs though from what it is in reality. I know someone who studies Chinese at my uni and got hold of a xing yi handbook. Some moves are the same but Kano's variant is very un-xing yi in terms of agressiveness. There are more styles that they have molded this way, as I noted before.

I'm surprised that crab really exists! But it's good to know ;).

Q

What about the Kirehashi?

White_Pointer Wrote: queve Wrote: Im not sure if Steel Fans is real (kitanas weapons). Yup Steel Fans are real. White_Pointer

Very cool, I dint knew that. Those must be one of the cooles styles ever. Where and by who are they practiced?