Martial art used in Casino Royale?

fkupfer

Hi everyone,

what a great movie! I wonder which martial art Bond is using in the movie?
I know that he uses "parkour" during the chase at the beginning of the movie.
But what style is used in the fight which occurs in the stairs of the Casino Royale? Is it Krav Maga? Thank you!

Flo

A7ce

Krav Maga - wasn't she a Bond girl?

sorry only kidding, no idea, but agree with you great movie

s96024

Looks like general fighting to me, not a specific discipline.

VW2006

General stuff.

Good hand techniques and movement in the fighting. You can find all that stuff in the various arts.

I know in the ones I've studied (BaGua, Silat, Bando, Ninjutsu) techniques cross each other. And when I was watching the movie, I could see moves from every art.

lavabubble

I believe its called whaq a baddi


(v v bad joke but it is Friday after all!!)

In Like Flint

The rear naked choke he used to finish off the guy at the bottom of the stairs is classic Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He even set his hooks in while applying it. The technique looked really authentic - I was impressed.

Number24

Applying aspects of diffrent martial arts, thats good. Isn't that what a highly trained secret agent would do? Witnes the fight in the high school corridor in "Gross Point Blank".

VW2006

In true fighting (combat) you just do what works. You don't really care where it comes from.

One high level fighter I heard once picked up a bicycle and started swinging it around in a fight. It worked. He won, they lost.

When I fight I don't think which art I'm using. I just think (actually - don't think) react: punch, elbow, knee, shove, etc. Whatever works. Doesn't have to look pretty, just needs to work.

So, yeah, a good secret agent fighting for his life would do the same thing. :007)

Johmss

I have no idea, but what i can tell is that his style is very similar to the one that uses Big Boss/ Naked Snake in "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater". It was called Close Quarters Combat (CQC)an uses that sort of keys, movements and weapons...

I know CQC isn't the real name, but is a real discipline... perhaps in wiki....

craigisbond

Number24 wrote:

Applying aspects of diffrent martial arts, thats good. Isn't that what a highly trained secret agent would do? Witnes the fight in the high school corridor in "Gross Point Blank".

That was so cool. His opponent and the fight coordinator for the film was Benny "the jet" urquidez.

And back on-topic, the fight scenes in CS were pretty cool. I concur that there is an overlap in the martial arts.

VW2006

Johmss wrote:

I have no idea, but what i can tell is that his style is very similar to the one that uses Big Boss/ Naked Snake in "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater". It was called Close Quarters Combat (CQC)an uses that sort of keys, movements and weapons...

I know CQC isn't the real name, but is a real discipline... perhaps in wiki....

CQC is just a general term. CQC usually refers to fighting where you're close enough to grab someone. A lot of arts have CQC training in them (the good ones anyway).

Cynjin Smyth

Well a government agent would have gone through a Hand to Hand combat training class. There are a few that Bond might have learned.

One: Kava Magra, started as a Israli Close Combat fighting system, have seen it but not trained in it.

Two: Bruce Lee's JKD or what has become knowen as mixed martial arts. Mr. Lee mixed Boxing, Karate, Judo, and Gung Fu and others that escape me at the moment.

Three: One had been mentioned. Barzilian Jujitsu. Very affective in CQB and on the ground.

The last is Combat Hopkido: Again very affective in CQB but it has some throughs and breaks in it.

If I had to guess it would be a mix of B.J. and JKD.