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Posted: 18th May 2009
ya its an alright show....wouldnt exactly call it scientific lol

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Posted: 18th May 2009
Hmm should be a good watch, but yeah not exactly scientific. They more or less do it at random with "experts" in the art. It's also very hyped up with the trash talking and what not.

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Posted: 18th May 2009
yah exactly... like that episode with the ninja vs the spartan, samurai vs viking, and especially that apache vs gladiator! i never thought an apache would win a fight against the gladiator. but they did! hehehe! this episode must be awesome, maori has the poi, shaolin has the rope dart! exciting!

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Posted: 18th May 2009

... if they're going to use traditional Maori poi they ain't in with much of a chance.. They're designed to hit yerself with as a form of percussion, not as weapons.. Flexibility aid and dance prop, not weapon..

I'd suspect they'd be using something more like.. a taiha, a big pointy stick, or a mere, a club-type thing.

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Posted: 20th May 2009
the monks won... their only effective weapon was the twin hooks but got most of the kills.. maori warriors used their Mere and kaiaha and the shark tooth club which has the edge but, only thing was it was all made of wood... compared to monks twin hooks, emei daggers, staff, and chain whip, all made of steel... tsk tsk tsk but i still gave the maori the edge though...

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Posted: 20th May 2009
This show is ridiculous - it's like Dungeons and Dragons with smack-talk. Their methods of measuring the damage a weapon could do are so cut-and-dried that they tend to overlook a lot of basic but essential dynamic factors. They measure, for instance, how deep a sword cuts into a person, or how much force it takes to destroy a shield. And then I suppose they assign values to each weapon chosen by the warriors and make a simulated fight based on that alone, completely ignoring a huge amount of other crucial elements like mobility and visibility in armor, use of multiple weapons together, and evasive maneuvers.

And a lot of the "facts" presented are really just a bunch of myths that keep getting handed around. Which of course further skews the results! Honestly, swords are meant to cut people, clubs are meant to crush people, and so on - I think it's hilarious when they watch a sword go through the gel torso and then get all worked up about it! Of course, that's the best part, watching all the mayhem! They definitely do the most visually badass "tests" of any show I've seen, even if they're not quite sure what it is they're measuring!

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Posted: 20th May 2009
i liked when they got chuck liddell to test some gladiator stuff, the spiked fist glove and the roman scissor or something...lol WHOA those spikes put a bunch of holes in the meat!!

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Posted: 25th Jul 2012
It's definitely all about the weapons and seeing them used, Not about who would truly win any of the fights. There's No way they could take in account the level of skill of any given individual, learned or natural, majority of people, when they go into survival mode, kill or be killed, they aren't even aware of what they're capable of.

Never heard of poi til I bought my first set of throwing knives. Searched for any help learning my new knife hobby n this site came up. Now I wanna learn poi, so looks like I went from having no hobbies to learning 2 of them at once.