A Martial Arts Reality show

[BoulderDawg]

Why not? They have them for everything else. I see maybe a dozen of so people from Kung Fu, Karate, BJJ and whatever moving into a house in the Hollywood Hills and competing against each other.

Or maybe you could have a dozen or so hot MA women with big boobs fighting over a grandmaster or something.:D

[Kansuke]

Gee, no one has ever thought of that before..... :rolleyes:

[xcakid]

Watch TV much?

http://www.spike.com/show/22307?cid=YSSP
MTV also had THE FINAL FU
And lets not forget Jackie Chan's, THE DISCIPLE

[BoulderDawg]

I don't watch TV that much.

However I was laughing at how people were going nuts over "The Bachelor".:D

Don't they know that's as phoney as the WWE and UFC!:eek:

I think a show with a lot of hot women and guys flying through the air would sell.

Do the shows you linked have hot women? I THINK NOT!!!!

[AdrianK]

The idea has been done before and because of the poor state of kung fu and karate - In that the most qualified instructors are far from the most visible or influential. The Final Fu was ****ing horrible.

And UFC isn't phoney.

[Violent Designs]

LOL phoney UFC . . . . . hahahaha . . . .

[BoulderDawg]

I'd never heard of the "Final Fu".

I just finished watching an episode on the internet. There were possibilities here. The women were extremely hot. The show was boring though. None of the contestants were arguing with each other and, so far, I saw no skin.

My suggestion would be more women and put them in bikinis. Do some mud wrestling and make them do some really sexy forms. Throw in some drama. Have a few cats fights along the way. Take the guys totally out of the show. Make it where like the girls compete for a date or something with that one guy who was the leader.

As I said there were no problems with the ladies...just not enough of them.

[GeneChing]

Jackie Chan's Disciple (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45829)

Fight Girls on Oxygen (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42423)

MTV2's FINAL FU (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42294)

for extra points: contender (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35799)

There was also K-Star but for some odd reason, that never developed its own independent thread. If you do a search of the entire forum, you'll find K-Star pops up in several other threads.

[Zenshiite]

Don't forget the BBC's Mind Body and Kick Ass Moves. That show was great.

[冠木侍]

I'd never heard of the "Final Fu".

I just finished watching an episode on the internet. There were possibilities here. The women were extremely hot. The show was boring though. None of the contestants were arguing with each other and, so far, I saw no skin.

My suggestion would be more women and put them in bikinis. Do some mud wrestling and make them do some really sexy forms. Throw in some drama. Have a few cats fights along the way. Take the guys totally out of the show. Make it where like the girls compete for a date or something with that one guy who was the leader.

As I said there were no problems with the ladies...just not enough of them.

At the time it aired back in 06 i didn't have access to cable and missed it. I catch old reruns every now and again on MTV2.

Yeah, the girls were hot.

[GeneChing]

To quote the all knowing wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television):

Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors. Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television, the term reality television is most commonly used to describe programs of this genre produced since 2000. Documentaries and nonfictional programming such as news and sports shows are usually not classified as reality shows.

If your going to include MB&KAM, then there are two more worth examination:
Fight Quest (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49142)
Human Weapon (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47232)

And we shouldn't forget Superstars of Dance (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52634). :p

[BoulderDawg]

Don't get me started on "Superstars of dance". I have several friends who are professional dances who just roll their eyes when I mention that show.

Back to the "Final Fu"

>>>The Girls were hot<<<

Word!:D Of course being TV you know there were girls who tried out for the show that were great MA artists but could not cut it in the looks department!

Also, from the one ep that I saw, the sparring matches were wack. I don't think you got any points for blocking and there were no sweeps or take downs. My stragedy would have been just to move in as close as I could and just piston punches to the mid-section as fast as I possible could.

Anyway, for a change, I was watching some tube tonight and I flipped over to MTV. There's this new show coming on called "Bully Beat Down". The premise of the show is they find guys who have been bullied. The "nerds" tells their stories of how they were picked on. Then apparently they send out a MMA fighter to confront the bully and challenge him to a fight.....:D As with all reality shows I'm sure this one has as much respectability as the aforementioned WWE and UFC!:D

[GeneChing]

...we had a lot of fun with Superstars of Dance (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52634). Just read the old thread.

Final Fu (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=672) was significant because it was early and MTV (well, MTV2...) It was just poorly actualized, more from the minds of reality TV than martial artists. They really should have consulted more martial artists. But feel free to ttt that thread with a 'where are they now?' on the ladies. ;)

I could have swore we had something on Bully Beat Down (thought it was in the MMA forum) but I can't find it. Perhaps it was nested in another thread. Too hard to search those key words...

[Shaolinlueb]

when is tiger claw going to do a show called "the king of KFO" and it will involve the board members in a battle royal?

[GeneChing]

Tiger Claw's KungFuMagazine.com Championship (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/info/tournament/index.php) is June 27th, 2009 in San Jose, CA.

No Battle Royale tho...:(

[BoulderDawg]

...Final Fu[/URL] was significant because it was early and MTV (well, MTV2...) It was just poorly actualized, more from the minds of reality TV than martial artists. They really should have consulted more martial artists. But feel free to ttt that thread with a 'where are they now?' on the ladies. ;)

Early? Early for what? This show isn't even three years old.

Anyway for the MTV crowd it was probably just about right.

[GeneChing]

Time flies in reality TV. It only really reached popularity in 2000. American Idol only rose to dominance within the last half decade. Three years is a long time for the YouTube attention span generation :rolleyes:

[BoulderDawg]

Time flies in reality TV. It only really reached popularity in 2000. American Idol only rose to dominance within the last half decade. Three years is a long time for the YouTube attention span generation :rolleyes:


That was like 9 years ago. I don't see much that's changed in the last three years other than reality shows not really trying to hide the fact they are scripted. I think they did a few reality shows where they got a house full of a dozen people, everybody became friends and nothing happened...of course those shows never made it on the air.

It amazing to me. Especially the way they have some of the women acting on those dating shows.

[冠木侍]

That concept of that show was sound and it was a great idea. The execution could have used some tweaking. For example, I never figured out how they could tally accurate scores during the "sparring" portions. Furious chain punching, body shots, kicks and the such and a magical number was awarded based on punches and kicks to certain parts. Of course, no head shots. :p

Not so much a reality show but who was around when WMAC Masters was on tv? :P
Yeah, that show was scripted and the such but it had some talented guys there.

[BoulderDawg]

I just read an interesting story about a reality show. In New York they had a casting call for a show called "Top Model"......10,000 people showed up, some waited in line for 12 hour and never got it, then the whole place just exploded into riot!:D

People should realize your chances of actually getting on a reality show from an open casting call are probably about 1 in 10,000. Even if you were something special can you imagine trying to judge something like that with thousands of people.

My friend was on a reality show. Her agent got her on. She went to four private auditions before she was chosen. Of course they had an open casting call but only to film it for the opening credits. No one from that casting call made it on the show.

[mjw]

Don't forget the BBC's Mind Body and Kick Ass Moves. That show was great.

I loved the one with Yip Chun