Snake Style

Kiba Hebi Kata:Fanged Snake Style
Type: (Nin)Taijutsu/Kenjutsu
Background:
After traveling the world for many years and watching the animals of the land a reknown taijutsu master observed the movements and attacks of snakes against other animals of the land. 2 snakes in particular caught his attention, the Viper and the Constrictor.
The Viper, with its ability to strike with great speed and inject deadly venom to bring down animals much larger then itself in self-defence.
The Constrictor caught her attention by binding the prey with its own body. its large, powerful body overwhelmed other animals as the snake crushed them.
Using these 2 snakes the ninja created a new taijutsu style, using the Viper as the base for his offensive techniques and the Constrictor for his defensive techniques. Overall this style is for self-defense, just like the real snakes the Snake stylist is taught to only strike when nessicary and to not start pointless violence.
This style is based upon speed. With extremely fast arm based attacks that mirror the natural movements of the snake's body. The fighter's body must remain strong and supple as it represents the snake itself during attack. The fist acts as the snake's head, the fingers are the snake's tongue and the legs mimic the snake's tail. The master of this style claimed that adopting the fluidity of snakes allows him to entwine the opponent in defense and strike them from angles they wouldn't expect in offense. Snake style especially lends itself to applications with swords
Description on the Abilities and Inner Workings of the Style:
Snake techniques focus on two elements.
1.Precision striking to soft targets to symbolize the fangs of a snake.
2. limb wrapping to symbolize the constrictor.

Rather than fist strikes, fingertips and palms will strike with a variety of force at the eyes, throat and groin. Due to the serious nature of hitting such targets the snake-stylist should practice remaining calm and peaceful in the face of adversity in an effort to avoid fighting altogether unless the situation warrants such defensive actions.

The Constrictor Style
wraps up and grapples with an opponent, relying on strength and connectedness with the ground to make the techniques work.

-A snake practitioner, to defend from arm-based strikes, traps the wrist and forearm of his opponent. From this position, he will strike the trapped arm just behind the elbow. Depending on how he delivers that strike, this move can take down, control, cause pain to, or break the opponent. This is a basic constrictor technique, wrapping up the opponent's arm and using leg position to deliver the most powerful and appropriate attack to the vulnerable elbow.
-In close fighting with a leg-based fighter, a constrictor stylist might step between his opponent's leg to crowd his space and upset his balance. From there, he can wrap his leg around his opponent, much like a python coiling around prey. This leg check has many variations, aiming for a range of outcomes from unbalancing an opponent, immobilizing him, tripping or trapping and breaking the ankle.



The Viper Style mimics the striking of poisonous snakes, represented in humans by speed and precise delivery of special hand forms that penetrate and damage an opponent

-The eye thrust is a simple viper technique, relying on accuracy and fast delivery not only to injure the opponent but to protect the striking hand from injuring itself. To deliver an eye thrust, the snake stylist extends one or two fingers -- sometimes supported by half-extending other fingers -- and stabs it into his opponent's eye. Thrown too slow, a natural flinch reflex will pull the target eye out of range. Done inaccurately, the stylist will jam his own finger on his opponent's face or forehead
-Pressure points are areas of the body that can cause disproportionate pain or disability as compared to how hard you hit them. The "funny bone" area is perhaps the best-known example. Even a light rap there can numb the arm and cause severe pain. Snake stylists use the viper aspect to strike pressure points with hand forms that minimize the surface area that strikes -- allowing increased penetration and delivery of maximum force.
Only basic pressure points known to most can be struck unless the user has medical training for example the temples, the kidneys, the elbow and the neck. Overall the point is to strike soft parts of the body to inflict maximum amounts of pain in small areas.

Distinguished by circular movement when delivering parries and attacks, fanged snake style employs an upright, mobile stance as opposed to the horse stance used by most other styles. This mobile stance enables quick advances and sidestepping. Since snake stylists are taught to spring from rest to full attack, they do not use preparatory stances. Snake stylists rely on rapid, alternating jabs as well as bobbing and weaving to evade counterattacks.
To enhance the speed of their jabs Snake users will have weights attached to their forearms during training and can keep them attached to hide their true striking speeds. Slower taijutsu users can train with leg weights on as well but as this is not needed for the most part only users who specalize in the Constrictor Style use them to strengthen the leg muscles and allow for faster wrapping of limbs.

The weilding short bladed swords such as the Jian (linked to above) or Ninjato is done when the Snake Stylist can no longer attack the soft spots of the body and must increase their striking power past that of the fangs. Using the same stance as before but weilding the sword in their striking hand the user combines their speed,agility and already increased arm speed to stab the tip of the blade into their target. The sword can be then left in to act as "venom" if the sword is no longer needed to fight or can be pulled out for another stab.
Typically after inbedding the sword into their target (if the sword is no longer needed to strike) the user will utilize the Constrictor Style as the pain from the sword weakens their opponent the constrictor style allows them to immobilize the rest of the body or perform a strangling technique, shortening the breath, increasing the target's panic and cutting off oxygen to the brain.

-The Viper Style is often enhanced with "Fangs" made of condensed chakra on the user's fingertips or palms to pierce chakra-made defences or clash with chakra enhanced weapons. These fangs can be made of normal or elemental chakra, and if the user has certain KGs that allow for control of a unique element that too may be made into "Fangs" Like kaira blaze elment


The Constritor Style can be enhanced with proper chakra control to the limbs to strengthen the muscles, allowing for control over larger and stronger opponents which is often as Snake stylists are useually small in size. This lets users constrict opponents up to 1 rank higher then themselves.