Comments on: Xtreme martial arts video gallery

Xtreme martial arts video gallery

madamjujujive — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:00:49 -0800

Xtreme martial arts video gallery - a gallery of clips of traditional martial arts fighting styles and weapons, as well as some rather cool "in-the-body" animations. The site is a preview for a show on martial arts that will launch this week on the Discovery Channel. (via Buzz).

By: PigAlien

PigAlien — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:58:12 -0800

I like how the computer animations were missing genitals. You know, even if they wanted to omit the fact that men have genitals, they could have had a bulge of flesh like a codpiece.

By: krunk

krunk — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:12:43 -0800

Does anyone know if this program will be playing in Canada anytime soon? I don't think the Canadian Discovery Channel is carrying it... the commercials for it on TLC have been taunting me all week.

By: krunk

krunk — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:34:50 -0800

On further inspection, the show seems to be a big commercial for some guy's Xtreme Martial Arts business -- basically a flashy, useless school of "martial arts" designed to lure kids into the dojo with the prospect of looking like Jet Li.

By: gen

gen — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 21:48:15 -0800

This XMA stuff isn't the real thing. It is like saying a salmon skin roll is sushi. It ain't. Sure it tastes good, but you're not going to find it in a traditional sushi restaurant in Japan.

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:13:52 -0800

Get im in a body bag Johnny yeaaaaah! Ahahaha! Mercy is for the weak! Cobra Kai!

By: aramaic

aramaic — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:03:04 -0800

Surely, in this day and age, we can all agree that anyone using the word xtreme should be brutally killed and their body strung up as a warning to others.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:11:17 -0800

I'm watching it now, and it's idiotic. It could have been interesting, but they had to be "xtreme". Too bad.

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:59:03 -0800

I'm watching it right now too, and I can't help to think that late at night the 3D programmers took all the movement footage and applied it to make kung fu fighting puppies and kittens.

By: weston

weston — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:29:52 -0800

I watched it on Jet Blue red-eye flight from NYC to SLC last night. Not all that great. I found myself getting interested as they brought up a new subject, and then completely disinterested as they taught us almost absolutely nothing about it. It was classic flash-cut, short scene, blipvert style programming...

By: weston

weston — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:30:26 -0800

Disclaimer: the flight was stuffy and I couldn't sleep and that might have made me grumpy...