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== [[Urban Legend]] ==
* In the [[The Cavalier Years|swashbuckling days]] of fencing schools (perhaps more cynically to be known as "street gangs") there were all kinds of rumors floating about of "irresistible thrusts" and "impenetrable parries" which masters would only teach to favorites. It does not seem to have been asked much what happened when someone [[Fridge Logic|tried to get through an impenetrable parry with an irresistible thrust.]] In any case a lot of them were probably just mundane dirty tricks no one ever thought of before. Modern treatise research by Historical European Martial Arts practitioners finds there ''are'' "secret" techniques listed, but they're either mundane higher risk techniques, or just part of intermediate instruction that separates an expert spear user from a drilled levy and are only "secret" in the sense the master couldn't make a living teaching them if they became widely spread.
* Fans of martial-arts legend [[Bruce Lee]] found it hard to accept that someone as tough as he was had died due to an allergic reaction to Equagesic (a brand of painkillers he took) and many claimed that foul play had been involved, some believing that members of Chinese organized crime groups had put a curse on his family. One version suggested that he had been inflicted with a deadly martial arts technique called "the Quivering Palm" which allows the practitioner to will the victim to die days after actually striking him, like a time-release death-blow. Of course, there is no proof that this technique is anything but a legend.<ref>Fun fact: the Quivering Palm was much later adapted into [[Dungeons and Dragons]] where it is a high-level ability gained by members of the Monk class.</ref>
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