It’s on…
again.
I just saw the last 15 minutes of it. That TKD guy made a good point when he said (paraphrased) “it’s easy when you’re watching people fighting to say ‘oh, why doesn’t he just do this instead of that,’ but when you’re actually in the ring, it’s completely different.”
That’s a good point. Don’t be an armchair quarterback (even tho I’m guilty of that, too). 
Funny thing about that statement is this…none of them have truly fought. You can see it in their movements, and Chat even said himself he’s never been in a fight. Doesn’t matter how many tourney’s you’ve been in playing tag with foam mitts…they don’t have the slightest clue of real fighting.
Almost everyone in that show was from the tournement circuit or movie scene. None of them true fighters…2500lb kick is only good if you can hit a resisting opponent whose ACTUALLY trying to hit/pummel you.
And when Chon was talking about the blood on the pokers…that was pretty funny…he talked as if he’s had deadly kung fu battles before. Whatever.
The “karate” that you saw was mostly acrobatic martial arts, not true karate. It takes the basic kicks and punches you would see in almost any striking art, and the mixes it with power ranger stances and flips. Nothing more.
Gung fu guys do it…karate guys do it…TKD guys do it…it all comes out looking the same.
i’ve heard second hand from someone that is good friends with a lot of people from the wah lum school.(students and masters) the people at wah lum didn’t have any impressive things to say about the mortal kombat wanny be who tried the plumb flower poles. sorry for vagueness but dont wanna get anyone in trouble. so i’ll open my mouth. HE SUCKS.
Indeed. I’ve seen and felt real karate. That ain’t it. That was not kung fu, karate, MMA, or anything worth a ****.
With regards to the powerful kick . . . throw in a resisting opponent and don’t give him the chance to slide with it, then it is not going to happen. I can have the bottom of the heavy bag bounce off the bar it’s hanging from if I hit it perfect with a sliding side kick, doesn’t mean I can get anywhere near that power from leg’s length against someone trying to fug me up.
^hooray for run-on sentences^
Ahh…
Once again the dreaded XMA surfaces again. Mike Chat is the only dude that makes Ashida Kim look like he really knows what he’s talking about. But then again can you really belive a Power Ranger?
But he won all those competitions!!! 
Oh geez. Ouch. Oh. A verbal kick in the balls if ever there was one.
Combat Ki
she also passes out during the exam.
anyway, what do you guys think about combat ki? isn’t combat ki just another name for iron training.
I think it’s fake. Real Iron Vest does not require such insane tensing to work.
may be we should have a thread titled “is combat ki real or not?”
judo kai
thread
crazy bald guy with the piercers was worth watching the whole show for. LOL
Lew musta got some good bank for his involvement.
Apparently, that guy goes crazy when he sees blood! Then he feels a little sick and puts a bandaid on it.
If you learn how to get beaten then you would always get beaten for the rest of your life. If you learn how to beat up the others then you would always beat up somebody else for the rest of your life.
Don’t know that I agree with that, YKW. I know a few who practice this sort of extreme conditioning that are very good fighters. The idea has merit. But you can’t just do extreme condioning and think it will save you. Give you a very powerful tool, yes. First off, you know that you can take it as well as how to take it, and still be funtional. Second is the psych value. If the guy you are fighting hits you with something that has dropped bigger, more experienced fighters, he may back off, or atleast become more causious. Of course, that won’t get you too far if you can’t fight in the first place… :o 
sigh, I hate that show.
-Will
Aperently Fit TV (subsady of Discovery) is joining theMartial Arts shows band wagon, too.
this one was not too bad, though.
I remember when this show initially aired, that white dude who was trying to make a come back caught A LOT of heat from other MA’s on the XMA message board. He said he knows that XMA isn’t realistic and neither is point fighting, but he trains the Tony Blauer SPEAR system for self defense and also does some grappling. He’s not totally deluded. He could just be a victim of the selective edit…
I remember an article in an issue of black belt mag, I think it was that same white dude. (dont remember the name) basically what he said was that they asked him to do the whole XMA thing, he agreed but really when it comes down to it, he knows its not real MA and he always ends up going back to the TMA.
Just sumtin i read one time.