Human Weapon Martial Art of Korea - Tae Kwon Do
The ancient and modern martial art of Taekwondo is practiced by a purported 70 million men, women and children around the world. The hit cable television show HUMAN WEAPON featured Taekwondo and predecessor variant Korean Martial Arts of TaeKyun, and Hwarang Do.
Bill Duff and Jason Chambers travel the world to explore different martial arts and fighting styles. In each country they fight a representative of each style.
Human Weapon
Human Weapon was a weekly cable television documentary on The History Channel. It premiered on July 20, 2007 to rave reviews and a strong following from the martial arts community. It featured two American hosts, Jason Chambers and Bill Duff, as they travel across the world studying various martial arts, or systems of fighting, which have origins in the various parts of the globe.
The show is similar to a later program called "Fight Quest". Both shows are a clear take on Discovery Channels "GO WARRIOR" featuring our friend Master Roland Osbourne.
The HUMAN WEAPON began each show with a basic history and introduction of the martial art or fighting style origin. Then they are paired up with different trainers and are sent to train in various styles of the respected art or system. While there they learn the culture, heritage and origins of the martial art or fighting style.
The viewer is treated to lots of eye candy from exotic demonstrations of traditional and modern applications from various demonstration teams and experts or Masters. Techniques are presented with motion capture animation and a scientific explanation of the mechanics, force and how it can be applied.
In the Korea Taekwondo episode they meet and train with a HwarangDo Master Lee and do some traditional training in the Korean mountains. They also visit the World Taekwondo Headquarters called Kukkiwon and learn the Taekwondo tornado kick from a leading Taekwondo University coach and master. They also experience the training and traditional roots of TaeKyun, even attempting to incorporate the TaeKyun "horse kick" into their arsenal before the Taekwondo sparring match fight.
In the TKD match at Kyunghee University, they face an armed forces Taekwondo Sparring champion. Bill gets knocked out with a spinning kick while Jason twists his knee and is forced to forfeit. Both ended up learning that TAEKWONDO is much more than most people know. I think they each have a much healthier respect for the power of a skilled Taekwondo practicioner than they started with.
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