Discovery Channel and History Channel a few years ago had two very similar shows called Fight Quest and The Human Weapon that dealt with two guys traveling around the world learning about martial arts. They would spend a week training in a particular art and then at the end would have a fight / test with practioners of those arts. Both shows got canceled but most of the episodes are available on Youtube. <iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jCTNHARSm6g" frameborder="0"></iframe> <iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HAM90hr0WHI" frameborder="0"></iframe> For those of you who seen both shows and / or do martial arts which show do you like better? For me I like the guys in Fight Quest more and they seem more authentic but The Human Weapon is a better introduction to the arts by giving more background on the art, showing the diversity and better explaining the techniques. Fight Quest seems primarily about Doug and Jimmy going through tough training and then having to fight rather than the art.
I thought that Fight Quest was better, except the bald guy was kind of a whiner and made a lot of excuses, like: 'this is my weakness, I'm going to suck because of this'. Hard to believe that someone with an attitude like that got good at anything.
Was human weapon the one where they hooked various fighters/masters up to equipment to measure the force of impact and all that? That's the one I liked. It consistently amazed, me what with people having kicks equal to a 30mph car wreck and all that.
Personally I enjoy watching Fight Quest more because of the hosts are more humble than Jason Chambers and Bill Duff who come off as arrogant pricks and show no real respect to their masters who could easily whoop their @$$ if they wanted to. Also it's extremely painful to watch Bill do graceful arts such as Taekwondo and he doesn't think before he throws a punch to the head of the other fighter.
I've watched a few episodes of Fight Quest here and there. I think the producers get too involved in the show because if they're fighting for real, even though it's not the masters, they would get annihilated.
On Human Weapon it seems like most of the time the "masters" they are fighting are taking it easy, although there are a few episodes where it looks they are fighting for real (the Pankration episode) and one where the martial arts school throws a cream puff a them (the Sombo episode). In Fight Quests the fights seem more real in terms of the effort the practitioners that Doug and Bill fight but also it seems like Doug and Bill aren't always fighting the most high ranking guys but guys closer in skill and size to them.
I'm going with Human Weapon based on this episode alone. <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0PkdRxz0AVU?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0PkdRxz0AVU?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMd1s5SkZC8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7U6dCRTyU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYKpwiND-8M
