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Deja fu

An almost unknown form of martial art, Deja fu is best described as "the feeling that you have been kicked in the head this way before."

In Deja fu, the practitioner travels in time as well as space. He can go back in time and hit his opponent with a series of punches. From the opponent's point of view, the practitioner is standing motionless in front of him, but he feels the effects from the past attacks. Also, the practitioner can put parts of his opponent's body out of time with respect to the rest of the opponent, making attacks ineffective, preventing the opponent from moving or causing the opponent to trip.

Currently, the only practitioner of Deja fu is Lu-Tze, a sweeper at the Monastery of Oi-Dong.

It bears a strong resemblance to the temporal fugue technique from Roger Zelazny's novel Creatures of Light and Darkness.

Other forms of martial arts on the Disc (and Lu-Tze's opinions on them) include:

Okidoki ('Just a bunch of bunny hops')
Shiitake ('If I wanted to thrust my hand into hot sand, I'd go to the seaside')
Upsidazi ('A waste of good bricks')
Tung-pi ('Bad-tempered flower arranging').
It is not immediately clear who on the Discworld practices these arts, though they are mentioned in reference to the monks of time, who are known to practice martial arts in general.

Relates to the French phrase "Déjà vu" - a feeling that you have experienced something before even though you haven't.

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Dancing_To_Forget

Report | 04/12/2007 8:42 pm

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Report | 02/07/2007 9:39 am

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