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Coup de vitesse is a fictional martial art that is practiced by Honor Harrington in the Honorverse, a series of books by David Weber.
Coup de vitesse is a fusion of several western and oriental martial arts, developed primarily as a hard style where emphasis is placed on offense sometimes at the expense of defense, resulting in a very brutal and effective style.
"Coup de vitesse lacked the elegance of judo or akido. It was an offensive hard style which borrowed shamelessly from every source, from savate to t'ai chi, and distilled them all down into sheer ferocity."
In the books the main character Honor Harrington is ranked 7th level black belt (the highest rank is 9th) and often uses her skills to dispatch enemies that underestimate her. Later in the series she progresses to 8th level.
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