Looking for aniti-martial arts video...

[Spirit At Choice]

Quite some time ago I came across a short (5-ish mins?) video on the Internet that depicted a male martial artist training, then showed him walking home and getting attacked. The video was meant to show how martial arts training is ineffective, but the actor playing the martial artist made so many mistakes a well trained practitioner would not make (he did not maintain distance, step offline, or pay attention to his surroundings for example).

I was telling my sensei about this and she was interested in seeing it. Does anyone know this video and have a link?

[ShotokanKid]

Okay, here's what you're looking for:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7674028043115699716&q=karate

[Spirit At Choice]

Yup, that's the one. Thank you!

[cathal]

That video was obviously created and narrated by people who have never spent any reasonable, responsible time, practicing a martial art.

[MisterRadley]

That video was obviously created and narrated by people who have never spent any reasonable, responsible time, practicing a martial art.

I agree.

[Neo Dragon]

Think my Sensei would probably want to see this too. People are ignorant.

[Myth]

Wow, that's strange. Especially at the end it sais that martial artists know so many moves that they, as the narrator sais, are overtrained and don't know what to do.

This is very very false indeed, all these overtrained moves I know as reflexes. Sure this can happen to martial artists, but what shotokankid said can happen just as well, and is even more likely.

Must have been a misplaced 1 april joke.

[bushido_man96]

Just another ploy of someone trying to make money.

[blackxpress]

What a stupid premise. Just because you're a martial artist doesn't automatically mean you'll be able to win in a 2 on 1 situation like the one in the video. The question is, if attacked by 2 thugs like the ones in the video, would you rather face those guys with or without self defense training? In other words, are the producers of the video suggesting that you'd be a better fighter with no training at all? I know that's what they're saying and, as I said, it's a really stupid premise.

[username8517]

Actually what I liked best about it is the martial artist, even after catching the two thugs running up on them, bothered not only put distance between himself and them, but to also to take his eyes off of them to look at his watch and tell the guy the time.