Martial Arts moves

[Jim]

Are there more moves than 4? A hook, palm strike, low kick, jump kick.

Is that it? Martial arts even worth leveling up or even fighting with exclusively?

[johntarmac]

It's tough going if you start from scratch with a new character but doable. I would KO someone and carry them off to fight singly but even doing that you can expect a lot of downtime.
Other times I just set up a campbed in an area frequented by starving bandits and let them beat on me with clubs. No risk of bleeding out then.

From the guides
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[nex]

Originally posted by Jim:

Are there more movies than 4? A hook, palm strike, low kick, jump kick.

Is that it? Martial arts even worth leveling up or even fighting with exclusively?

in a word yes.. my current playthrough is no weapons martial arts only and its awesome.. and while i would love to see more done animations wise its already great.. just watch when someone with high skill is surrounded by enemies and fights..

[Erei]

The best way to increase MA, or really any fightning style, is to go in the Fog Islands. That's especially true if the character is a skeleton, since they can't be eaten.
However, it's not that easy. You need to prepare, mostly by having a veteran or 2 alongside for when things go wrong (and they will, be warned, you do'nt want your rookie eaten alive). Also bedrolls and food is necessary. Having an house in Mongrel with a bed for healing is also good.

Basically, you go inside the fog islands, killing stuff on the way. Fogmen doesn't have armors and their weapons are crap. They tend to have about 10 in stats, so that's a good beginning.
Find one of the fogmen camp, and clear it. Use the dead and not so dead fogmen as bait (tie them to the poles). Princes and heavies will come. You can loot heads from the princes, which can be sold for a bit of money.
Princes and heavies have between 20-30 stats, so they are tougher. They still doesn't have any armor and crap weapon.

Be warned though, you can be swarmed. Usually they are not hostile when feeding/praying, so you can always run away and avoid those.
At some point they'll stop coming, so you'll have to find another camp, but you should need healing anyway.

Once you are done, and in the 30 stats range, you can push north to the swamp/ruin area. There you'll meet metal spiders and lone skeleton. They are really strong, but will not eat/kill your people, and they are alone (usually).

You can capture any of the targets (the skeleton makes strong dummies, but you can take the spiders to) for training back home.

Another tip is to have taunt at all time. It will make your toughness increase faster, and it will increase super fast on its own to begin with.
A good idea is to use a powerful armor for those run, like the samurai. It will slow you down, but it will increase your life expectancy. It doesn't affect dodge, as long as you are not ecumbered.
As for strength training, that's easy. Between fight grab a body and put it full of junk to make you encumbered. Drop it when the start fight.

In 1-2h you'll be in the 30 stats range, and can reach 40 with another travel. Toughness doesn't seems to be related to the target stats level, so it will increase super fast. More toughness = less damage.

[Papasaurus Rex]

so the most recent MA kick I got the jump spin kick thing, I did like 150+ damage, mind you it was only Dust bandits and Hungry Bandits so not the best armored, they are fairly well traiend however due to that mod of Hatsune. 51 skill in MA 80 Dodge 65 str 66 dex 79 tough not wearing any MA bonus items cause still training em