Martial Arts, Boxing, Fencing, Bruce Lee etc.

[blid2def]

Wahlao the Korean woman is good. Sibei efficient, the way it should be. High scoring percentage sia. Damn "tok" some more, keep wanting to back hook the Italian's head...

Yeah, Martina "Winona" Zubcic coming up.

edit: Oh this Turkish lady also not a bad fighter. Back to TV!

[blid2def]

Oh no, she lost. Hope she'll go back with a bronze in the repechage then.

[kennynah]

wah...u must be some blackbelter man....so into TKD....

Sex and violence... man's best friends.

oh is it?.... in hokkien, we always say....so and so very "kum dong" .. the normal reply is "kum" enough...no need to "dong"...hahahaha...

so, sex is sufficient, no need the violence...hahaha...

[blid2def]

Yeah... sweet Martina "Winona" Zubcic won a bronze medal, but it's a fight that shouldn't have taken place or continued, in my opinion.

She was fighting a Taiwan opponent who was obviously hurting from a previous fight. The latter was limping and fighting with one leg, and she did well enough to score points and take the game into the tie-breaker, losing in the end to a "sudden death" kick.

The fight was constantly disrupted for medical timeouts as the Taiwanese fighter kept falling to the ground in pain, hurting from her earlier injury (and she picked up a new one in the other leg as well). Although her will and fighting spirit should be applauded, I felt it did nobody any favours. The winner of the bout would have no glory defeating a "handicapped" opponent, while the Taiwanese fighter ran the risk of more seriously aggravating her injury. Felt the coach and ref didn't do a good job there in letting the lady decide if she could continue. They should've protected the fighter from herself.

On to nicer things - today saw the best bout of the games so far. The men's under-68kg semi-final bout between the Korean fighter (eventual gold medallist) and the Taiwanese fighter (eventual bronze medallist) was a sight to behold, with points being exchanged each time as a quick attack was effectively countered with an equally quick counter-attack.

Good stuff today, hope we'll have more of the same tomorrow.

[la papillion]

After seeing the boring TKD matches (most are boring, i conclude after seeing some), I decided to look for more videos to satisfy myself. Might as well watch choreographed fights

This one is quite cool:

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[blid2def]

Wahlao what you expecting - fight all the way from "sejak" to "gomon"? They'll die man.
I'd rather see one round with a few solid kicks/executions, than one with lots of kicks but nothing good.

[la papillion]

heehee blood sports mah Maybe i watched too much mixed martial arts

[HengHeng]

There is one on history channel every thurday 9pm .. on 2 fellows going all over the world to check out various martial arts.

[blid2def]

There is one on history channel every thurday 9pm .. on 2 fellows going all over the world to check out various martial arts.

Shit, I keep missing that series. How is it? Any good?

[HengHeng]

ok lah. .. abit fake but still ok .. martial arts where got spent a few days or hours can learn liaoz.