Human Weapon on History Channel

[jubaji]

Originally Posted by Blue Wave Gym

Lol exibition matches when? the thai, savate a karate fights were all FULL CONTACT

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[Garland]

Originally Posted by jubaji

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they weren't giving it their all. Especially the Thai boxer...the Karate champ looked like he was trying, though. I guess it varies.

[jubaji]

I like how the various fighters all look kind of embarrassed/pissed at being coerced into performing the little 'show' at the end.

[Tom Yum]

Originally Posted by jubaji

Cancellation.

I think they should make jubaji the host

[Garland]

Originally Posted by Tom Yum

I think they should make jubaji the host

Of sharkweek. I'd like to see him "hypnotize" a great white shark in open water via tonic immobility.

[jubaji]

Is that Gin and Tonic immobility?

[Garland]

Originally Posted by jubaji

Is that Gin and Tonic immobility?

No...Gin and Tonic immobility is what I experience after a night of drinking at the local VFW.

Tonic immobility has something to do with overloading the sensory system of cartliginous fishes by either placing them on their back, or- in the case of some large pelagic sharks like the great white- touching them on the small pores dubbed the Ampulli of Lorenzeni on or around their snout.

See the following video-

YouTube - Shark Week '07

the guy has brass balls the size of bowling balls.

[nathan rd]

Am I the only one who thinks that the Pankration episdoe kicked ass?

[Garland]

Pankration? Pankration's long gone, homie. What they have now is MMA. IT IS JUST MMA. Jim Arvantis basically just tried to revive a long dead art by putting together the techniques he thought they'd used based on vases and frescos, and tossed in other strikes and techniques based on several other arts, commonly found in MMA blends.

The training they were doing...like the man carries, the 2 person push-ups, and the log drills are all guerilla training exercises that everybody uses or knows about.

And the rules...were lame. They've come a long way from ripping and tearing shit off and forcing fingers through faces. Not to mention breaking fingers. No punches to the face...break it up whenever it looks like somebody could possibly get hurt...no slamming...wearing shin pads (???!!!!) it belongs in a renaissance fair with the Dungeons and Dragons geeks who pretend to joust.

That particular group was lame...the one doing the guerilla excerises seemed to have a better mind set...I hope they don't fight under those rules.

The worst was when the one host started to complain about the little cut on his toe...
I've seen worse cuts from people repetitively swiveling on their feet on old carpets...and they were all told to go back to fucking kicking the bags. Much less stop a fight. Jesus.

[jeff5]

I agree with Garland. I do think its amireable that they've tried to put the art back together. You have to remember there are NO records except for some vases and frescos of how those guys fought. (I'm talking pancrase, with weapons etc.) So yeah they kind of glossed over the fact that its basically cobbled together from most of the arts that make up MMA. I did like the training on the mountain, that was pretty hard core. I also liked a lot of the training and throws from the clinch etc. I wasn't that impressed with the guy who fought Bill at the end. First, no blows to the head, again a horrible way to spar and train. I just think it instills extremely bad habits. I also didn't think that the pankration guy did a very good job of sprawling or knowing how to escape. (although Bill is a big guy and does know how to put his weight on someone as he was a wrestler)

[fire cobra]

Havent seen the pankration episode yet,but Arvantis was doing that stuff way back when i first started martial arts more than 30 years ago,so pre modern day mma.

[Uke]

Hehehehe ... The Krav Maga episode was great. It not only expounded on many of the truths of RBSD already written here by a few of us, but actual instructors from the Mossad talked about trained reaction vs thinking based methods in combat, sport fighting vs RBSD/combatives for real world aggression, and the combat mindset which some here feel is too extreme or unnecessary.

What a resounding echo of what I've been accused of saying too much on this site. What was shown and said in the Krav Maga episode was all very basic. Nothing fancy. Yet that information is woefully absent here on a day to day basis.

That's par for the course at Depends.

[lorenzodamarith]

Originally Posted by jubaji

The big(ger) goofy looking guy seems to be under a contractual obligation to say "I'm big!" 25 times per episode, the smaller guy (who apparently is subsidizing the entire North American hair gel industry)

hello,

contract to say "i'm big" and get paid for it? interesting. not terribly martial, but interesting.

hair gel subsidies? well, any of us who lived in the eighties have all been THERE!!!

hahahahahahahahahaha!!! again, not terribly martial, but interesting. sort of. ok, not really, but even hairgel could come in handy in a fight. it would make your head so slick it would pop right out of headlocks, chokes and neck cranks!!!

fear the soul-glo, people!!

thanks

[jubaji]

Originally Posted by pUke

Hehehehe ... The Krav Maga episode was great. It not only expounded on many of the truths of RBSD already written here by a few of us...

..................oh, here we go again.........

[Uke]

Originally Posted by jubaji

..................oh, here we go again.........

Hahahahaha .... how did I know that ole "mongrel on his mama's side" would show up to bless us with his melon headed wisdom? Great post by the way. I love how you have expounded on tactics and technique.

Strangely I didn't see the Israeli Special Forces cover the "getting smacked in your mouth" defense. Also their knife defense looked very different from your atomic suplex method. I guess those fellas at the Mossad could learn a thing or two from our unfriendly neighborhood troll.