Drunken Fist


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 * Type: C-rank, Offensive, Defensive, Short range (0-5m)
 * User: Rock Lee
 * Debut (Anime): Episode 124
 * Debut (Manga): Chapter 211

This unusual style of combat can't be learned or taught. It only occurs naturally, and requires the user to be drunk. Decent skill in some form of combat may also be helpful. Once the former condition is met, the user becomes an unpredictable fighter seemingly unable to discern friend from foe. Lee is particularly talented in this form of combat, hence his sensei's concern whenever he learns that Lee may be exposed to alcohol. The unpredictability combined with Lee's formidable Taijutsu skills makes him a force to be reckoned with. Kimimaro was only able to hold Lee off by partially activating his cursed seal.

In the English dub, Drunken Fist is referred to as "the Loopy Fist" most likely due to the idea of Rock Lee, a minor, becoming drunk, a touchy subject for children in America. Some of the dialouge related to the topic was changed during his fight with Kimimaro. Also, Lee is said to have drank a bottle of "elixir", rather then sake instead of his medicine. In the English Uncut DVD (Volume 10) it was correctly called Drunken Fist. Volume 24 of the English manga that is distributed by Viz also censors out the alcohol reference by stating the bottle was filled with a Potion and the technique is referred as the "Potion Punch".

Trivia
The Drunken Fist is based on the 8 Immortals Zui Quan style of Chinese martial arts. In the actual martial art, however, intoxication is not a factor; rather, the "drunken" movements are used to confuse opponents.