Human Weapon Series
 

I can't wait till this starts. If you get a chance look at the different videos they have for the different martial arts.

http://www.history.com/minisite.do?c...&mini_id=54986

Is it wrong that I got wood looking at that site? :biglaugh:

Only if that is your wood that the karate master broke.

This show looks awesome! Make sure you post again in this thread on Friday to remind me to watch it or I will forget.

I'm gonna set up the DVR now :D

hooray for the history channel!

It proves the point again, the Discovery and History Channel shows are just getting cooler.

I saw the comercial for this last night, Its gonna be bad ass, I cant wait ... too bad I have a wedding to go to on friday.

Add FX, Spike, and Fox News and you'll get the only channels worth watching..

Fox News?!? Are you serious? :smashfreakB:

I hate Fox News, but I won't get into it cause the conversation will turn political.

^^ Good idea.

^^ I'll add comedy central to the list, as well as cartoon network.

^^Playboy channel anyone? :biglaugh:

You're SOOO PG-13 Kane LOL!! :biglaugh: :lame:

Regarding cartoon network.. I saw some of their late night cartoons and they're funny as shit!! Adult type stuff late at night. This one cartoon had this husband and wife standing in a protest, and the husband said to his wife, "Ok, remember our agreement.. I'd stay here for you, and you'd give me anal" LMAO :biglaugh:

^^ adult swim is very funny, I'm a big fan of robot chicken, that is if my anchient body can take staying up that late.

on a side note, if anyone is recording the show(human weapon), and would like to post it up (not sure how long it is) I would love you forever. not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing though :biglaugh:

They added more videos on the site. Very nice.

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It's On Tonight! Don't Forget!

ITS ON IN ONE HOUR!!! DONT FORGET PEOPLE!! I hope no one is watching TV in the common area of my dorm, cause they are going to get booted!!

That show was cool! I think at the end the pro muay thai fighter took it a bit easy on the host. I know I wouldn't want to get hit with one of those flying knees!!!! :yikes:

Yeah I agree that the pro muay thai fighter was going easy on him, but I still give him props for stickin it out the entire fight. This show was really cool...I enjoyed all the little CGI demonstations of all the fighting techniques. Very cool.

I was very cool. I love the history of the arts and how they tied in all the training. I can't wait to see Eskrima, or Arnis depending on the region.

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yeah i cant watch the news anymore they cover the stupidest least important things 85% of the time. yeah FX A&E and History channel and of couse spike are my most frequently watched ones.

:lame::lame::lame:....the fight was way to weak

Human Weapon is on tomorrow night dont forget fellas!

I love how they put this on friday nights, cause i'm ever home on a friday night ... dammit, i need a dvr.

I totally forgot... thanks for the look out.

I like how it is on Friday nights cause it keeps me outta trouble if Im home watching this and not out somewhere partying!

Human Weapon is about to start! I think tonights episode is about Karate...should be a good one.

Yeah the karate one was ok I guess, I caught it on sunday night on the replay. The full contact match at the end was kinda weak, i have a feeling the black belt was taking it easy on him, even after getting punched in the face.

I find it very ironic that these guys train so hard to become top notch fighters, what with the "iron body training" and so forth, then step into a fighting match and can only hit someone in the chest/stomache area. I personally wouldn't want to fight someone of that caliber in a street fight, but if I trained as hard as they did and wasn't allowed to actually use some of my techniques in a fight, I would feel like a caged lion. I wouldn't mind allowing hits to the face if I were to train the same way they do because I would train to defend myself there. It wouldn't be too difficult to train for a few months for a 3 minute round + 1 minute overtime with a karate blackbelt if I had the same MMA background as the hosts of the show. I'll bet $100.00 I could last just as long as the host if there weren't any shots to the face. Anyone else out there who's kind of annoyed at how much restriction there is in sanctioned fights for some of these fighting styles? UFC is probably the best in terms of rules IMO because it's as close to a no-holds barred fight as you can safely get. woohoo, go Tito!

Yeah its kind of frusterating to have to go from watching Ultimate Fighting to watching the restricted fighting on that show, but I have a lot of respect for it because they arent fighting mix martial arts. They are just fighting in that one discipline and there is so much history involved in it and traditions. Plus some of those moves were lethal and I doubt their organized matches would last very long if the fighters were doing that crazy palm to the heart punch shit in each fight!

I'm still saving these up to watch later so I don't know what's wen't on. But I suspect that as far as the host's go there are insurance issues at work. If these guys get damaged who do you think has to pay the hospital bills? I don't know but it probably has a lot to do with what the production insurances will allow versus what the hosts can and cannot handle. It's still just a TV show, after all.

What? I thought the T.V. producers send in clones of the hosts to do the actual fights.

On another note: the one martial art that would have been a great addition to the show IMO is to delve into the martial art form of Capoeira. It's incredibly interesting and unique in that it's not a linear style of fighting.

Just my two cents

Overall, though, the show is great! (no spoiler) The way the show goes into the history of the martial art form from a style meant for the battlefield to how it's used in modern day is very History/Discovery Channel like. Love it!

Dude I'm just making a point that it's a TV show so not to expect a blood bath. I don't know what the point of your smart response was. You can agree or disagree but rude sarcasm isn't really called for.

No doubt it's a good show.

dude, chill out. sarcasm is me trying to add a little humour, but apparently there's too much of an age difference here between you and me for that (no sarcasm)

I wasn't attacking you, I was making a ridiculous comment that has nothing to do with attacking you personally.

Well it must not have been funny. I'll read it again when I'm older :D

So I'm the old man now? haha
thanks a lot :smashfreakB:

You're definitely going to enjoy the show overall. There's so much history involved (enter: History Channel) and it's well produced.

I cant agree with all of that, I dont know what your fighting background is, but I would take the 100 dollar bet that a 200+ lb kyoshin ni-dan would have his way with you. Not trying to be a dick, just trying to put this in perspective. And only one of the hosts has an MMA background, the bald dude was a football player. And UFC is actually pretty far from no-holds-barred, its sanctioned by the states athletic commision, there a lot of "illegal" things in UFC also.

you are comparing apples and oranges. Traditional martial arts is different then MMA in the fact that a lot of MMA students do not train for the spiritual aspect and traditional martial arts train to defend and take out advisories in real life. Also, if you train for a specific type of fighting then you allow certain defenses to not be trained, example, old Pride fighting had no elbows but you could stomp a person on the ground, UFC the opposite. So they train differently to prepare for that type of fighting. I'm sure if they allowed punching to the head in the karate matches they would train differently. It's all about what you train for. "Product of your environment."