Discovery Channel : XMA

[Tetsuo]

Anyone looking forward to the premiere of this next Sunday? Some of the moves these guys can do are sick, I could never imagine myself doing stuff like that

Link to some video: Text Videos 7 and 8 are the best IMO

 

[Tetsuo]

Nobody cares

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: Tetsuo
Nobody cares

BINGO!

 

[sohcrates]

saw this advertised last night while watching monster garage, looks interesting

 

[EvilYoda]

I cared when I saw it, just didn't remember when it premiered. Thanks

 

[DannyBoy]

What is it?

 

[MagicianBdotCom]

Xtreme Martial Arts = XMA
Wow what a crappy name, way to cornball it Discovery Channel. Anyway the shows on Discovery Channel and TLC totally rock now, awesome computer graphics and such. I used to watch them a lot and noticed that they are quite more advanced.

 

[hoyaguru]

Bump - On in about half an hour here on the east coast.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Tetsuo
Anyone looking forward to the premiere of this next Sunday? Some of the moves these guys can do are sick, I could never imagine myself doing stuff like that

Link to some video: Text Videos 7 and 8 are the best IMO

i wanna see it. looks good

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

My TV's on in the background on Discovery right now. Some crap about the "hard life" of the repo man. I dunno, I'm not watching. I'm waiting for XMA to show. Three and a half hours until it shows.

 

[EvilYoda]

Just started, cool beans!

 

[Kev]

i wanted to see this but completely forgot, thanks for the remindser

 

[Tetsuo]

Fook! I forgot about it, missed the first 17mins

 

[Jgtdragon]

Thanks. Was looking forward toward this since I am a martial art nut.

 

[Looney]

That sucks, i missed the first 20 mins. I'll bittorrent it eventually i guess.

 

[Tetsuo]

Awesome show, that was 2 hours well spent :beer: for the Discovery channel

 

[Looney]

Yeah, it was good. I got kinda bored with the competitive aspect of it. Made me kinda miss point sparring though.

 

[FrustratedUser]

When is it airing. West coast time plz.

 

[Tetsuo]

It's over 6-8pm pacific

 

[Hexametaphosphate]

was a pretty cool "semi-scientific" show there..... flipped back and forth from it and the crappy Sunday night football game...

-Hex..

 

[MustangSVT]

its funny.

there are so many World champion martial artists .

it was entertaining in XMA Stylez, yo.

 

[Babbles]

The CG skeleton stuff was pretty cool, but to consider any of their acrobatics as martial arts is a joke.

It was, however, entertaining.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Babbles
The CG skeleton stuff was pretty cool, but to consider any of their acrobatics as martial arts is a joke.

It was, however, entertaining.

Here we go, folks. Some guy who think's he's the worlds best martial artist know-it-all.

I'm sure that if you were put in the ring with one of those guys that you'd kick their asses, huh! The coreography was obviously fake, but it's meant to show off and display a few ideals in fighting, not give you the martial arts experience of a lifetime and some of the science behind it. Get off it. I enjoyed it. If you didn't, that's too bad. But before you just mouth off about those guys, try doing things on their level or better. There's a reason that they're on the show and you're not.

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Babbles
The CG skeleton stuff was pretty cool, but to consider any of their acrobatics as martial arts is a joke.

It was, however, entertaining.

Here we go, folks. Some guy who think's he's the worlds best martial artist know-it-all.

I'm sure that if you were put in the ring with one of those guys that you'd kick their asses, huh! The coreography was obviously fake, but it's meant to show off and display a few ideals in fighting, not give you the martial arts experience of a lifetime and some of the science behind it. Get off it. I enjoyed it. If you didn't, that's too bad. But before you just mouth off about those guys, try doing things on their level or better. There's a reason that they're on the show and you're not.

Hi!! And welcome to reading comperhension 101. Because that is exactly what I said: I am the world's best martial artist know-it-all. Nothing escapes you, for you are quite the clever one.

Did you even watch this XMA show? First off it was a pretty blatant informercial for the XMA association as well as a tie-in for The Last Samurai flick.
Did the performers look good? Yes, for the most part.
Would they kick my butt if I was to face them? Probably so.
Even the main people on the show stated that they do things showy just to impress the judges with their flamboynce. One guy doing a katana demonstration even said if he did it for show and would get killed if he tried it in 'real' life.

It is not too difficult to listen to what the people on the show say and realize what their XMA association and this show is all about. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

The coreography was obviously fake, but it's meant to show off and display a few ideals in fighting, not give you the martial arts experience of a lifetime and some of the science behind it

Even you just made an admittion that their martial arts demonstrations essentially lacked. So, therefore, you must be some uber-martial arts expert.

Get off it. I enjoyed it. If you didn't, that's too bad.

What part of this do you not understand: "It was, however, entertaining."

Yes, it was enjoyable.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: Babbles
The CG skeleton stuff was pretty cool, but to consider any of their acrobatics as martial arts is a joke.

It was, however, entertaining.

Well, I don't think I'd consider what they do as "true" martial arts, but they do dedicate their time and their efforts into something at leat worthwhile.

I just liked how notsomuch the people in it were acting, but how the stoopid narrator exaggerated all the aspects of this particular style of martial arts . . . the tournament by the ISKA in Florida = Super Bowl? Please.

Not to mention the slew of styles they failed to mention . . . it seemed like it was a tie-in for the Last Samurai and a commercial for XMA . . . for a show aimed at the non-martial arts community, however, it was a good show.