New History Channel Show

[johnraptor]

Last night I watched the premiere of a new History Channel show called Human Weapon (finday nights at 10). Two martial artists (one of them is actually a football player who happened to also wrestle some), travel around the world, learning about a different martial art each episode, learning both its techniques and its history. Then at the end of

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[markbuster]

It's also kind of patronizing to think that after a week or weekend of studying a traditional martial art, that you would be good enough to fight a master of it.

[johnraptor]

Yeah, that's true. They were doing Muay Thai kickboxing this week and it was obvious that the Thai champ was kicking the hosts butt without hardly breaking a sweat, but the host was bragging about not letting the guy get any hits in on him. It's like "Duh, he's going easy on you, doofus!"