User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Frontier G Genuine Discussion/@comment-26074976-20140426223647/@comment-4009941-20140427002810

They work like punching and kicking its seems they are based on using your actual body more than just weapon alone like how you stay in the air you use your actual feet to jump on monster instead of the weapon. You beat parts of a monster till they weaken see my videos on how parts of the monster I hit go "Green > Yellow > Red" when a part of its body is weakened and turned to red use a finisher(The move that makes a explosion) and the weak parts go boom with pain!.

Short Mode is for faster comboes and seems ot have its own unique type of damage I can't figure out yet. Short mode allows you to jump in air and use the monster as a jumping pad with kicks allowing the user to stay in the air if he times it right. Mid air moves are "Attack","Use monster as jumping pad kick", "Evasion" and "Finisher". Its very lacking in KO damage and from my tests bounces off HC Gravios Body and Belly but does good damage on his wings and tail who are weak to cutting damage so I wonder.

Long Mode is slower but appears to hit harder with impact damage and is actually good at doing KO damage. I been able to KO some HC monsters like I do with hammer. Long mode has a charging attack at the end of basic combo attack button line thats very powerful and I use it to KO stuff. On the other hand it lacks the ability to use monsters as a jumping pad and instead you just do a strait to ground spin. Long mode does effective damage to Gravios Body and Belly unlike short mode since it uses impact damage.

About weak spots: Lets say a monster has 5 weak spots to start. Head, Body, Wings, Legs, and Tail. Each spot will get weak separately. I beat up the head non stop till it goes from green per hit to red then use finisher on any body part while head is red weak and the head has that explosion on it. I am still learning the effects of finisher as when you use finisher on body the monster gets a yellowing flame like aura and hitting any part of his body will do KO damage in the meantime I found out. Finisher on tail makes the tail bleed dripping and you have to use this for teai lcut I heard but I have yet to do it(Tonfa sucks for tail cut my opinion).

More Tonfa Videos by me for epople that may have or may not have seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Yoje_3ta4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNCK3TEFvPc