Ch'i

Its fine if you didn't like the movie. On it being a bad movie, I disagree. Maybe I'm just biased because I study and practice this sort of thing all the time. I understood the tactics, and the philosophy of their fighting which may have been something not everyone picked up on. I would like to help clarify the strategies applied to the battle.


That being said, I would like to try and clarify why they were defeated so quickly once they were surrounded. Since the movie was based on a historical event, they did have to inevitably follow a certain criteria for what happened in the battle. I will describe the movie's tactics, and the ones used in the real battle of Thermopylae.




Its getting late; I'll have the examples finished some time tomorrow.