National Geography´s Fight Science is a documentary about a team of scientists measuring and analyzing the skills and moves of the best martial artists and most well-known styles in the world!

It hasn´t got any MMA, but it was really educating and enlightning, although it "romanticides" the traditional martial arts abit too much for my taste!

I got it via BitTorrent, give it a go!

yeah i felt the same way about it, but while i was watching the previews for it, i did catch a quick glimpse of rickson gracie, so that should be good

Cool thread. I'll mark it as "read" like I did the other 4 on the same subject.

This is a little belated.

Sorry if there have been threads about this before, I obviously didn´t know :(

Someone linked this whole video on flawlesstraining if you wanna see it
http://forums.flawlesstraining.com/showthread.php?t=324&page=2

yah i watched this on national geo... it was good.. thanks for the link star.

yea pretty good

I wish I had national geo...

i thought the show was pretty garbage.

The show was great

Thanx for the link

I train under Craig and Paul Pumphrey (the two on the show who break all the bricks) and it was good for me to see science backing up what they teach already. I thought that it was a great show.

I have one question about this show:
During Rickson Gracie's bit, Dean Lister is sitting behind him with his shirt off - why was he there? He wasn't mentioned and didn't do anything. I'd have paid good money to see them roll a bit

It was awsome and almost unbeleivable

It was cool liked it

it was decent

why does that tae kwon do guy always have his shirt off? I thought they wore gi's in tae kwon do?

I enjoyed that.

I like the fact that various styles and techniques were assessed.

Rumor has there is going to be a Fight Science 2 and they are going to lean more towards MMA

Rumor has there is going to be a Fight Science 2 and they are going to lean more towards MMA

what can they show from MMA that they couldn't in the regular show?

It was ok, the thing about bones reconstructing was the most interesting.

Yeah I think they called the bones reconstructing "Wolf's Law". It was pretty interesting

I loved this show.

About measuring what is more powerfull then another is good to know but doesn't say much how effective what style is.

I was more interested in the weapon arsenal and their function.

The whole 3d animation was pretty cool.

Good stuff hope they make a Fight science 2 about MMA or something...

good stuff

that was a good show

Anyone have a link to a clip of this?

What was the "final analysis" or conclusion the show came to??

It was cool, especially when they asked what is the best martial art,

I thought it was terrible. It had something good in it too but it tried to make things way too simple.
Comparing the power of strikes when there is so much weight difference? Comparing the kicks when the whole techniques were so different? Many of the arts compared even have similar kicks but they just used different ones to represent each art. Why?

I hated the fact that they made the ninja look like the ultimate warrior but the show was still somewhat interesting...numbers were a bit skewed by the size of the competitors alone tho:\

yeah the nunchak guy has really stepped up his game it looks like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_J90E3d9RA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ghjJOflOc

that show is pretty cool..haha..wnat to see the kicking power of crocop..that muay thai knee had advantage in measuring the hardest shot..coz he pulled the thing down

i thought the show was pretty garbage.

agreedl, especially with that death punch shit

What was the "final analysis" or conclusion the show came to??

That katanas were the ultimate weapons >_>

great documentary,

Fun to watch. The measurement of the power behind punches, kicks, and knees was interesting.

I just wish they focused a little bit more on actual MMA type fighting as opposed to the mystique of more traditional styles. I chuckled at the Ninja.

I thought it was terrible. It had something good in it too but it tried to make things way too simple.
Comparing the power of strikes when there is so much weight difference? Comparing the kicks when the whole techniques were so different? Many of the arts compared even have similar kicks but they just used different ones to represent each art. Why?


exactly.

that and the fact i wanted to cripple the tkd homo every fucking time i saw his posing and poncing. fucking fag

I posted the different parts in the MMA section, just click the link..

the main problem is that they were measuring the fighters, not the styles.

of course the tiny asian dude isnt gonna hit as hard as that huge australian, so it doesnt really say anything about kungfu-taekwondo.

plus he was a wushu champion, which is just show kungfu.

Just watched the whole thing. IMO was really awesome to dispell some myths and such. Except for the drunken boxing which according to Jackie's auto biography he made up based on another style.


It was ok, the thing about bones reconstructing was the most interesting.




In wing chun we train iron palm. You hit a bag filled first with mung beans then after time gravel and progressing eventually to iron pellets. We also use an herbal external tonic called dit dar jao. According to my sifu compacted calcium creates an electrical charge and encourages your bones to grow and become denser and stronger. The and the herbs also encourage quick healing I have had amazing results with sprains bruises ect.

We also train iron shit which involves learning to tense certain muscles before the impact of a blow to lessen the impact.

the main problem is that they were measuring the fighters, not the styles.

of course the tiny asian dude isnt gonna hit as hard as that huge australian, so it doesnt really say anything about kungfu-taekwondo.

plus he was a wushu champion, which is just show kungfu.

Agreed. And also agreed that the bigger boxer will punch harder then the little tiny chinese dude.

thanks