IWishToLearn
3rd Black Belt
Yeah - Geary is probably the dude with the biggest ego in the arts. According to his personal website (www.christophergeary.com) he even lied to take his 1st degree test from Cerio. Whee.
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Josh Oakley said:what makes a martial arts reality show?
Danjo said:It just seems wrong.
Josh Oakley said:What's your criterion for what makes shows such as these good or bad?
Thanks for the link. I don't see where it says you'd be competing to be a shaolin monk, though. It talks about a movie and tv deal. I also don't see a lot of other stuff that was claimed in this. Got more information for me?Danjo said:
hongkongfooey said:What made Final Fu bad?
Hmmmmmmm..........where should I start?
Bad match ups in sparring
Head contact illegal
Too many McDojo systems represented
Passing off XMA/EMC Monkeys as martial arts
General lack of skill
Sloppy technique
Jonathan Phan's hair. Dude, Dragon Ballz is just a cartoon.
People turning their backs to their opponet, so points can't be scored
Breaking scored or kiln dried pine boards as part of a challenge. Break some oak, then, tell me how your "killer" hands feel in their casts
Geared too much towards the tournament scene
That should do for now.
Produce a martial arts show that doesn't have the above garbage and I will watch it. Though, a show with out all of the XMA freestyle dance routines wouldn't make in our Happy Meal society. The last decent MA show I watched was on the History Channel.
Josh Oakley said:Thanks for the link. I don't see where it says you'd be competing to be a shaolin monk, though. It talks about a movie and tv deal. I also don't see a lot of other stuff that was claimed in this. Got more information for me?
Also, I do see the shaolin temple thing on there, so it's obvious they're part of the production. Not surprised there. They're trying to rebuild the temple and their land. That takes money. And from all the histories I've read, rebuilding their land and their temple is at least a hundreds-of-years-orld tradition and goal. It's impossible to improve ghettos and dilapitated(sp?) farms without money. It's impossible to help the poor, really help them, without money. I'm speaking up now because I'm getting tired of seeing all these people dis the Shaolin temple as being all about money nowadays. It's asinine.
I went to college with a shaolin monk. He was getting a business degree,so he could further serve the temple by applying good business skills in the some of the programs he was helping out with.
What I don't understand is why this is such a bad thing. I work for Providence Hospice of Seattle. We're non-profit, and focus on those who can't afford our services. Do you think we go to great lengths to acquire funds to do this? TYou bet we do! Do we ask shamelessly for money, and do fund raisers and big dinners for our contributors? Oh heck yeah. Do we recruit the best and the brightest from business and medicine? That's our biggest non-patient related expense. And we keep growing and growing and helping more and more people die a pain-free dignified death, or get rehabilitated. And we keep finding more and more ways to get money to do so.
Think about the Shaolin temple and its goals. Talk to one of the monks in America. It's no secret that the Shaolin temple has money and actively aquires more. Ask them what they DO with it, on the grand scale of things. Then you'll find out that they're not about the money. but you'll also find out that the goals they are after recuire money and man-power, and in great proportions.
So I wish them well on this project, and I hope they get back every dollar they spend on this show back tenfold.
IWishToLearn said:Anybody else remember WMAC Masters tv show from back in the day?
IWishToLearn said:Anybody else remember WMAC Masters tv show from back in the day?
Xue Sheng said:I did not watch it, but I believe that was on in the mid 90s and if that is the case..... if that is back in the day.... WHAT AM I METHUSALA
Kenpojujitsu3 said:Yep 1995 to be exact. Didn't realize that '95 was considered ancient history these days. LOL!
Danjo said:Read Demasco's article in the July, 2006 edition of Black Belt. It gives more detail than the link does. I'll see if I can find more.
Xue Sheng said:DAMN I'm old..... by 1995 I had been in MA for over 20 years... so how can that be back in the day
Xue Sheng said:DAMN I'm old..... by 1995 I had been in MA for over 20 years... so how can that be back in the day