Struck Animation Video Reference

For my fourth animation I am producing a movement of my character being struck in the upper right torso, or  shoulder. In the storyboard my team has created we have the demon attacking the mage with a kick. The demon is somewhat taller than the mage, especially considering his posture, so I thought it would make it interesting if he tried to disarm the mage from his staff by attacking the arm that carries it, and therefore the right shoulder area.

It was difficult trying to find secondary research of such an action, with only one in mind in Lord of the Rings, a scene where Gandalf is in combat with Saruman. Here is a link to the video of the fight:

http://youtu.be/p1Vyhve9gtg?t=2m20s

The fight isn't exactly showing what I imagine my animation to be, but it does give a good representation of what being struck whilst holding a staff it like, which is good for implementing weight and its affect on movements is like.

With that being said, here is my own primary research, a video reference I made of myself acting out my ideas. It's fairly long, but I tried to get all four directions/views recorded for best reference. I did cut it down, but when rendering out the video it produced black spots in the video.

Primary Video research/reference:

Next, like the other animations I made, I'll be drawing out the poses of this animation using the video as reference, which I will then take into Maya for 3D animation.