Marmet and UAF

I've been rather barfy, so that's why I'm not in class.  Sorry, but not really, as that would be incredibly gross to try and work with/around.

Fred and Peter: The knaps were excellent! The fight was long, but engaging, and I was intrigued to see what would happen next.  The energy between you two was fabulous, and it really showed in how both of you engaged in the fight.

Gordon and Mike: The "help up, punch down" was my favourite bit. Gordon's facial expressions were superb, and because of that, I felt much more drawn into the fight.  Wonderful comedic timing.

Clara and Habel:  It seemed a touch hesitant, but Clara had quite the intensity in her face.  Wonderful hair-acting on Habel's part.

Sam and Anthony: Some unclear moves, and it would have been awesome to have more time on the double choke-out

Tatum, Chesney, and Gina: The exasperation in Chesney's face was fantastic.  Really good knaps! I liked the timing.

I loved reading about Marmet.  The post is excellent, and seems to just be common sense, but in reviewing fight scenes from movies, it is really dodgy, fabricated, stiff fighting with unrealistic responses from other characters.  In a fight scene with several people, there is an invisible queue to try and beat up a person, and it's true in the unrealistic fashion of it all.  Like, if a fight breaks out, everyone in the vicinity gets involved in one way or another, whether it's shouting or jumping in to join or break up the fight, but there isn't that, "Oh, Bill's going at Joe, so I gotta wait here quietly until Joe takes out Bill, then I can have a go at him," that seems to plague a vast majority of films and media.  It's pointed out that the attacker makes the defense, the speaker sets up the response from the other person, and it all seems so logical but it's not exercised quite like Marmet.  The staggered responses, the overlapping action, it all makes so much sense, yet surprisingly isn't "common sense."