![]() ![]() Also in many Chinese television series, when cards can be used to cut. The Magician (TV series) with Bill Bixby features steel playing cards used in this manner. It has since been used in many pieces of fiction as the martial arts of choice for a gambling rogue character, usually using razor-sharp shuriken designed like playing cards for their attacks. Cards as Weapons - mock martial art of throwing playing cards with extreme force and accuracy, as presented in magician/ card-scaler Ricky Jay's book of the same title.Baritsu - Japanese wrestling style used by Sherlock Holmes, either a typographical error for, or a deliberate bowdlerization of the name of the real martial art of Bartitsu.Ahato Mastarday - Qu Tuang of the Space Nursery team in Yukito Kishiro's manga Gunnm: Last Order uses this martial art described as an evolution of Baguazhang.It is practised by Prince Zarkon in several novels by Lin Carter and was probably inspired by a similar but unnamed skill in the Doc Savage stories. Adhi - A Tibetan art which incapacitates an opponent by striking sensitive nerve clusters. ![]()
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