discovery channel XMA!

[David Jamieson]

I also shut it off about 15 minutes in lol.

The sfx stuff was pretty keen and the acobatics were ok, but it was clear that people were totally hyped and getting carried away from perspective in what they had to say.

btw, and fwiw, I think the katana is likely the best sword ever made by man.

musical karate isn't that bad to watch is it?

cheers

[Suntzu]

i told you it was going to suck.........

[jbmmaster]

I was all looking foward to watching it but when i saw it I almost puked. That was the worst thing ever seen in my life. I dont know what it was, maybe that stupid kata competition **** did it for me, and that brick breaking crap i hate as well. I just see no need for all that but the xray stuff was pretty cool. And yeah it was just a promotion for that tom cruise guys movie. I seen an hour of XMA and had to turn it off

Maybe Im just too wing chun based.

[MasterKiller]

Wushu has nothing on Sport Krottie when it comes to ridiculous, unrealistic techniques.

How many points were they awarding for the loudest yell, again?

And oh yeah, don't forget to spray water out of your mouth before your next tournament for dramatic effect.

[jbmmaster]

LOL

[Ford Prefect]

I thought the special effects were really cool. The content was **** poor, but what do you expect? They need it to look all dramatic and what-not in order to entertain the 99.9% of people in America who know nothing about martial arts.

[Taomonkey]

I think you guys missed the value of the program. yeah over all it sucked. So what if it was focused on some Paul Mitchell ESPN2 style tournament, (next on the red area rug...breaking) they broke down several americanised styles of movement. Now I know how these guys move, think and fight. Their angles, their egos. If I ever meet one, I have an advantage, oh wait...I already did...snap.

[truewrestler]

I almost threw my tv out the window just watching the commercial... can't believe people actually watched it the entire show after this thread I'll probably watch a rerun ...like I can't help but look at a car wreck

[ZhouJiaQuan]

"And oh yeah, don't forget to spray water out of your mouth before your next tournament for dramatic effect"


(said in zoolander voice)

"Oh, Snap... "

[PHILBERT]

Originally posted by Suntzu
i told you it was going to suck.........

We all knew it was going to suck, we just had to watch it to see how badly it sucked.

MasterKiller, I nearly fell off of my bed when it showed that one guy training with the kama with the Asian guy, who just happened to be wearing the white XMA shirt, and the Asian guy was telling him he needs to relax his throat muscles more or whatever, cause it was restricting his scream too much. The guy fell over at one point and he said "Who cares if you fall over, you got the yell out". I just wanted to cry.

[Shaolinlueb]

i thought they were going to show how the bones and muscles moved and tlak about different styles. instead i see these skeleton animations which got annoying after the first time and they showed about 2 seconds how the muscles worked. OOOHH i can kick this many pounds. and all the focus on karate was boring.

[Shaolinlueb]

what also made me mad was how those guys performed in between sparring hitting and pushing each toher. WTF. for their level, they shouldnt do that, they should have control and keep level minded. WTF mate on that. gives a bad bad representation.

[Fu-Pow]

That had to be one of the all time worst MA TV Shows I have ever seen. It even tops Discovery's other show starring the Juko Kai crowd and Wushu athletes.

Can nobody do a decent MA art documentary?

That guy Matt who was the focus of the documentary just made me want to vomit.

Was it just me or did he seem a little effeminate?

He's totally "tournament fu."

For those of you unfamiliar with "tournament fu" it is a style of fighting and presenting your forms that has nothing to do with ACTUAL fighting.

You must do at least 5 kip ups in your form, 10 spinning back crecent kicks, scream inappropriately, spit water and wear goofy uniforms. Sometimes you take off your shirt for even more effect.

The only sparring that is allowed is point sparring. Which we all know is the closest to real fighting that you can get. Why? Because we know how realistic the "one hit, one kill" methodology is. As soon as you use your "super deadly" technique the fight will be over. Furthermore, when fighting this way you must stand on one leg and throw a flurry of kicks with the same leg. Why? Because it looks cool and there is no way in a real fight anyone could grab your leg because your kicks are super fast.

The only real kung fu guy they had in the show was Chan Pui doing the plum flower poles. That segment was too short in my opinion. It was funny to watch the expression on the Matt Vomit's face too when Chan Pui showed him some "basic" kung fu training. He's like "this is basic?." Yes Matt Vomit "basic." Even kung fu "basic" training is difficult. Athough I'll be ****ed if I can pull off some of those "advanced" super spinning kicks that he can.

I'm hopefully going to film school next year. Maybe I can put together something better than this drivel at some point.

[Meat Shake]

"Was it just me or did he seem a little effeminate?"

His teacher seemed like the patti cake type as well...


Loved how everyone point sparring just kinda threw their legs out there, hoping to brush the other guy first.
"Did you kick him good?"
"Nah, barely touched him, but I got the point!"


At least the wushu chick won every time during the xray things...

[dwid]

There were two awesomely ridiculous moments I saw before I could no longer stand to look at it.

In the first one, a guy was twirling emei piercers and explaining how they go in easier once there is blood on them, and added that when he sees blood it just turns him more ferocious. It was one of those total geek moments that tells you the guy has probably never seen blood outside the context of a papercut.

The second one was the guy who was measured at kicking at like 2,000 pounds per square inch. He said that he'd never been in a street altercation, but that the numbers speak for themselves. As though the numbers mean anything out of context. The whole program laid down the assumption that striking pads and breaking boards was exactly the same as hitting someone, and only martial arts masters survive such strikes because they can flex at just the right moment.

What silly garbage this program was. Bunch of pretty boy sissies trying to convince themselves of how tough they are even though they never fight.