the surprise attack: Stiff opener and rather stiff in all, you seem to forget about the limbs you're not using to hold on to uke or striking him with, i.e. legs when you're punching, especially. The angle that he head flies in with the final decap looks good, though.
Practice Makes Perfect: That it does! This is a whole different animal. You manage to land that core at a pretty tricky angle, across your Tori's chest. You move in smoothly to the follow-up decap, but there's noticeable stiffness after that. I'm suspecting it's because you have to concentrate on catching that hand for the skeet.
Rip, Snap, Kick, Rip: That headbutt doesn't look intentional. They rarely do in toribash. The next DM is an elbow, and with a grabbed hand at contact. These are generally frowned upon (or were when I last frequented the forums). At least I personally don't like the way the joint just becomes undone all of a sudden and the gib falls straight down. The kick has a nice brutal feel to it, but looks a bit awkward with the knee fully extended, especially with the long pause afterwards before the next DM. You also hold Uke very close, which makes the replay look messy with Uke hitting Tori in between intentional hits. I spent a lot of time trying to make that decap kick into a boomhit, but uke is in the way too much. It looks really promising.
Let me fix that for you: These are also grabby DM's but you get much more out of them and they look powerful, so that's better in my books. It looks more like you're ripping Uke's head off than just touching it with a grabbed hand and making it fall off. You seem to neglect your torso, lumbar and abs, which are integral to making moves not only powerful, but look powerful. It looks pretty brutal, but not graceful, and a bit blocky. You're going places though, just keep at it and you'll be fine.
EDIT: I liked the opener for "let me fix that" too. Nice powerful backhand. A bit hard to follow up from, but powerful enough to DM either pec or the neck without grabbing, very possibly several of those. I hope you don't mind that I edited it a bit, just to see what I can do with it.
Last edited by Archlurps; Dec 17, 2013 at 12:35 PM.