More from the McDojo crowd...

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The Greatest swordsman EVER!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 598&q=kata

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Even more laughs..

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 6027844594

You just can't make this stuff up!


Oh..wait..

[cdoucet]

This guy here is the absolute master of the bo staff

http://ebaumsworld.com/starwarskid.html

and here he is protecting the world

http://ebaumsworld.com/starwarskidedit.html

wow this guys pretty crazy

http://ebaumsworld.com/2006/02/ninja.html

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That last one was OUT..FREAKIN..STANDING!!!!

props to that dude...
Big time..

[Bill Glasheen]

Sigh... Big Brother won't let me watch.

I'll have to check it out at home.

- Bill

[chewy]

That star wars kid series is making me cry. I could hardly breath after the last one!


chewy

[NEB]

The staff dude was great. Just great. I'm not kidding, man, it just doesn't get any better than that.

My face muscles still hurt from laughing.


nb

[TSDguy]

The Star Wars Kid first appeared on the internet in 2003 and the videos spread like the plague. EVERYone had seen them and the kid was the laughing stock of, quite literally, the world. Even shows like Good Morning America were doing reports on the videos. He wound up dropping out of school and finished HS in a psych ward.

There are several other similar incidents involving other people. Bottom line: don't post videos and pictures on the internet of yourself doing stupid things.

Over on the Sherdogg MMA forums there is a stickied thread making fun of some NJ kids trying in vain to look cool. The thread is going on 500 pages long, and there are already entire websites dedicated to making fun of them.

[TSDguy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3095385.stm

[AAAhmed46]

Well, you know, there is a difference between Mcdojo and bullshido. I learned this on BULLSHIDO.com

Mcdojo: A school that cares mostly about making money and handing out ranks and having a good reputation, but the training doesnt have to be bad, though it usually is because of the focus.


Bullshido: Everything your learning *****, it doesnt work. it's crap either because going to a mcdojo school made your learning hard and shitty or the guy is some aikido/taiji/karate guy who is deluded and thinks that you can be tough without any pressure testing or actually getting hit.



Thats what the differences seemed to me that is.

[TSDguy]

I've seen so many of the type of videos before and can do/know people these type of moves that I'm very hard to impress anymore. But this guy impressed the hell out of me.

http://www.gkko.com/videos/1405/amazing-karate-kicks/

[TSDguy]

Well I'm in a video mood tonight. This is quite possibly the sweetest back kick ever. Look at that head whip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lgGrnw9_P8

[Stryke]

Mad skills

[Bill Glasheen]

I have no problem with the kid doing the light saber thing. He likely meant it as nothing more than entertainment - which it was. As for the lawsuit, well... That's what you get when you publish someone's video or picture without permission, and "gain" from it. I seriously doubt the kid is in some kind of mental institution. All the psyche stuff is just lawyerspeak designed to extract more money. The proper thing to do is ask permission before you put someone else's video online - particularly when you do it at their expense. That's why professional photographers and videographers have you sign forms granting permission to publish.

It WAS entertaining, BTW.

This however is in contrast to the martial master of doom doing the "real sword" and "real karate" stuff. Holy crap! Now THAT is funny because the guy appears to be passing his art ('o doom) on as something authentic.

The thing is, someone could come into his Main Street McDojo, see all the fancy trappings on the wall, and assume it's all legit. And of course this has been going on for decades.

Decades ago, a remarkable Shotokan practitioner (Ray Berry) once told me of a martial artist in Charlottesville who opened a school and invited the local karate practitioners to his opening. In a demo on the first day, he proceeded to demonstrate his "hatchet kata" for the group. Ray couldn't take it. He stood up and told the guy that it was all bullschit - right in front of everyone. Well... The gentleman asked to see Ray in the back. He told him (outside earshot of everyone) that he was sorry he felt that way, shook his hand, and sent him on his way. He then proceeded to come back in the room and tell the audience that he had "told Mr. Berry off" and that he didn't think he'd be bringing his cowering self back in the school again. It took about two years for someone actually to approach Ray and asked him if this is what had happened when nobody was looking. Of course all Ray could do was laugh by then. Of course at that point there were already stories floating around about how he told his date he couldn't dance at a club because he feared his deadly hands might accidentally hurt someone.

Sigh...

I guess the thing I like best about the karate bunkai is that wicked "ready" stance. Imagine standing like that in front of a Longshoreman wearing some good-old-fashioned steel-tipped boots.

The thing that cracks me up the most is his first .... uh ... "block" of that haymaker.

Where are Ray Berry and Patrick McCarthy in the peanut gallery when you need them?

- Bill

[IJ]

That poor star wars kid is superfamous, along with the numa numa guy, miracle jackson's dance stylings, and a variety of other goodies visible at ebaum's world. Protect your embarassing videos (Scott Stapp, this means you!).

Meta, if you liked that "last one" visit http://www.ifilm.com/ and search "parkour" it's perhaps not as neat as the amazing kicks guy but along those lines using the cityscape as props.