Boards don't hit back
Spike is airing a program called "Deadliest Warrior". It's basically a hour long scientific experiment testing the deadliness of various weapons from past warriors (ie, samurai, roman gladiator, etc). The whole matchup boiled down (uhh I was eating, so I was paying 100% attention): long range, mid range, short range and "special" weapons. After the data was plugged into a computer simulation and the victor was declared.What a load of BS.
This is akin to Spike producing a show called "Deadliest Marital Art" and proclaiming winners based on scientific data from the force of kicks and throws. I'm really aggravated by the "experts" on the show who spew their rhetoric much like the kung fu expert exhorting the dangers of the touch of death. I'm always suprised that people like this still exist; the ones that buy into the mystic of certain combat arts (espeically ones of Oriential origin). But somehow these "experts" are credible especially when the narrator proclaimed one expert had 5 black belts (see McDojo).
On a related side note, a friend (after watching some highlight videos) asked me how Mike Tyson would do in mma. Tyson would get annihilated. I would pick a pure wrestler (no striking or submission skills) to destroy any boxer in a fight.
posted by Edward @ 12:59 AM
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