What's Your Fighting Style?

by Meredith

Which Voltron Lion Are you?

Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. We all have things we're naturally better at and things we can improve on. Recognizing what these things are can be the first step to capitalizing on your strengths and shoring up your weak spots.

Let's make it fun by dividing up five key fighting personas into the five different Voltron Lions. Well, at least it will be fun for me. And you should play along to make me happy.

Let's start with the Yellow Lion.

The Yellow Lion (piloted by Hunk) was powered from MAGMA and was the strongest of the lions. Coooool. It's great to be big and strong. I wish I was bigger and stronger sometimes. Especially when I'm grappling and someone's sitting on my head squishing the life out of me. However, be careful of relying too heavily on your size and strength. You can probably come out on top in a lot of fights just by powering through people, but how boring. Make sure you're not sacrificing your technique in the process and also concentrate on speed and agility. Eventually you will meet someone bigger and stronger than you are. Also, you'll eventually get old and weak. It's the way of the world. And don't be a big, strong bully. Even the Yellow Lion does not like bullies.

Now on to the Green Lion.

The Green Lion is powered by the life of the forest and can create tornadoes! Pidge, who pilots the Green Lion, is the smallest of all of the pilots, yet he can jump very high and is quite smart. If you're small, likely you have other advantages, like speed, agility and/or flexibility. Those are all excellent, but do try to increase your strength if you can. Weight training, if done correctly, does not bulk you up and slow you down. You have the dubious advantage of being a smaller target, but fight smart. Don't just charge in swinging. It's admirable to have courage, but courage and nothing else will just get you a broken nose. Don't use being small as an excuse either. No one likes a whiney midget.

The Red Lion.

The Lion of fire! The Red Lion can spew flames out of his mouth! Which is appropriate being piloted by hotheaded Lance, who is also known to be a bit of a rebel. A willingness to charge in and go with anyone is admirable and a certain healthy disregard for the rules can be an asset in that it will keep your opponents on their toes and keep you from becoming routine. However, remember that there are times when it would behoove you and those around you if you would dial it back a bit. And some of those rules are there for a reason. Just because you're awesome doesn't mean there's not always more to learn, so listen to your instructors and those giving constructive criticism. And remember to breathe, don't waste energy getting worked up.

The Blue Lion.

Powered by water and capable of shooting jets of water from its mouth and forming them into ice walls at will, the Blue Lion was piloted by both Sven and Allura. Sven, the original pilot, was injured in battle and sent to another planet to recover. In this writer's opinion, he was the better pilot and should have come back once he was healed, however, (This is all revealed in one of the last episodes.) he assumed the Force wouldn't need him anymore and was better off without him and was ashamed to contact them. Awww. Suck it up. Yes, it's good to know when you need to let an injury rest or heal and it's good to know when to take a break. Be careful of using minor injuries as excuses for poor or flagging training. If you're nervous, that's okay, but there's only one way to get over it. I'm not encouraging people to go in to train if they're ill, nor am I talking about people with major injuries, but I think we all know the people I am talking about. The Voltron Force did need Sven. He was the better pilot and should have come back, damn it. I formed this opinion when I was six years old and I'm not changing it now.

The Black Lion.

The lead lion, forming the head and torso of Voltron, the Black Lion gets its power from LIGHTNING! Sweet. Keith, the head of the Force, is the most level-headed and rule abiding of the bunch. However, he's sometimes distracted from the task at hand by his crush on the princess. If you're that person that everyone looks up to, chances are you did something to deserve it. Likewise, it's great to make friends and meet new and interesting people where you train. No one likes the unfriendly jagoff in the corner who has no time for anything but HIS workout. The pitfalls here are pretty obvious. Don't become the arrogant bastard or the laurel rester and try and give something back. Remember how you got their in the first place. Don't get distracted from what you're doing by the more attractive members of the opposite sex or cater to them because they're purty. Remember why you're there.

This concludes my highly scientific analysis of different fighting styles based on the Voltron Lion Personality Wheel. It's most likely that we all have several of these lion types in us at one point or another, but now that we're all aware of them, we can accentuate the positive and deaccentuate the negative and become more balanced martial artists. Right? Right.

What is one thing we know about the Voltron Lions? Separate, they're damn good fighters, but together, they create Voltron, Defender of the Universe! And he's pretty much impossible to beat.