Recommendation seconded! The leaps and treetop fights are also excellent examples of martial artists using their Counter to refute mundane things like gravity.
Chow Yun Fat's character can almost fly freely it seems and has thus greater skill at this than Michelle Yeoh's character, who has to touch walls and roofs more often.
Another parallell to Hero Wars combat is that very few combatants are killed or even seriously injured. The fights end when one combatant is down on his knees/winded/disarmed etc.
End of The Glorantha Digest V8 #214
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