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YELLOW BAMBOO TEST!!!

Zep said:
I don't think jmercer was being too serious with his comment, Kevin. ;)

But it's a fun little video, isn't it! And a great day out for all the kiddies too! Any idea where it was done?
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Correct. :) I mean, who could take this seriously??
 
BJJ guys aren't really known for their takedowns though... that last one where the guy planted his knee out there, the attacker should have 'turned the corner' and driven his shoulder into the knee straight into side control...

...from which he could have rained down knees on the guy's head or scored an easy keylock.

Just for the non-martial arts guys' reference... here's a video of a Traditional Chinese Martial Artist who put up $5000 of his own money that nobody could beat him. A MMA fighter took up the challenge, and you can see a keylock that ends it. (Turn your speakers on/off depending on if you want to hear the snap.)

www.bullshido.com/videos/MMAvsKungFu.avi

That's what would have happened if those guys were serious about hurting the YB woos.
 
Kevin_Lowe said:
Feel free to post video of yourself winning any kind of full-contact encounter on soft sand, starting with the screaming charge the YBers demand as part of the test, to show how much classier you look.

(The attackers are actually very skilled guys, who are going out of their way to take the Bamboo woos down without hurting them and apply a submission without hurting them. Note the BJJ t-shirt).
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I wasn't being very serious... but I was actually thinking about the YB guys and what they were doing. (Or not doing, perhaps is a better term. :D)

No problem with the attackers, they did a wonderful job of demonstrating that Yellow Bamboo is... well... Yellow BS. ;)
 
jmercer said:
I wasn't being very serious... but I was actually thinking about the YB guys and what they were doing. (Or not doing, perhaps is a better term. :D)

No problem with the attackers, they did a wonderful job of demonstrating that Yellow Bamboo is... well... Yellow BS. ;)
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Oh. Gotcha. Sorry for jumping on my high horse, then. :)
 
Zep said:
Streetlamp.

Sorry.

We deliberately make them to look like UFOs to fool the more gullible among us, like Victor Zammit. ;)
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No, you missed it: the bright, disk-like object that flew from right to left. It looked suspiciously like a Frisbee (tm).

What can I say? It's the photographer in me -- I pay attention to backgrounds.

Regards;
Beanbag
 
Well, there was probably more realistic content in the background. On the other hand, it would have been very hard to beat the foreground for entertainment value. :D
 
Zep said:
I think you call it "dissing". We call it "sledging". Verbally psyching them out.
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I didn't take it to be "dissing" or "sledging." I considered it to be a factual statement regarding the status of the Yellow Bamboo formal challenge application.
 
KRAMER said:
A test has been conducted. The applicant failed.

You probably all know the Yellow Bamboo Baloney.

Here is the link to the test. I hope it works as well for you as it did for me.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~ftrust/


(Edited by Darat to correct URL.)
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Ah yes... the traditional Shaolin "Ostrich Style" of self defense... whereby one wards off an attacker by planting one's head firmly in the sand.

Very effective.
 
Da*n!, I was AFK for a few days, and missed the action.

Can anyone summarize what "paranormal ability" the Yellow Bamboo folk was tested for?. I saw he video, and yet it's not clear to me.

Does this case have anything to do with the YB claim that the Danish Skeptics are making arrangements to test for?

Thanks!
 
From Randi's commentary http://www.randi.org/jr/021403.html

Go there and see just how silly their claims are. They say they can "knock down attackers from 10 feet away or heal someone dying from something just using [their] own energy." Sure. Can't think of an easier claim to test! Knock me down that way, or let me throw a few cobras in with one of the followers.... Hey, that's science!
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Ah, thanks. So the attacker was supposed to be knocked down before making physical contact with the yellow, huh?. Well, for all I've seen, it was the yellow himself who was actually knocked down. Double failure.
 
Patricio Elicer said:
Does this case have anything to do with the YB claim that the Danish Skeptics are making arrangements to test for?
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Not "are". "Were".
 
where was the bamboo stick?

"The person will begin the attack from approximately 20 feet away and run towards Mr. Serengen, attempting to strike him with a bamboo stick."
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---- the suggested protocol from J. Randi to Mr Donovan. What happened to the part about the bamboo stick? The whole thing couldn't possibly work without a Yellow Bamboo Stick, so the test was flawed, obviously.

Now, if this is the kind of thing that gets one $1-million, well, I happen to know an Israeli KRAV MAGA master, Guy Dar, who can really move so fast and has such lightening reflexes that he would actually be able to perform this maneuver perfectly and fake the attacker out of his shoes, causing a fall, without contact.

Or, we can watch the Super Bowl football game this weekend and see a few "moves" by the linebackers that make their opponents fall without contact!! GO PATS --- BIRD FRICASSEE!
 
Beanbag said:
No, you missed it: the bright, disk-like object that flew from right to left. It looked suspiciously like a Frisbee (tm).
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You might be right, but I've got a feeling it was a gull. When it gets over the driftwood, it starts gaining altitude.
 
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"Maybe if I stick my head in the sand..."
 
They should have painted the dog a sand colour, then set it after the attacker!
 
Note how in the "rules" video, the YB guy says the attacker has to be angry.

Wanna bet that within YB someone is saying: "yeah but they weren't actually angry, they were just pretending to be angry for the purpose of the test, so it doesn't count"?
 
princhester said:
Note how in the "rules" video, the YB guy says the attacker has to be angry.

Wanna bet that within YB someone is saying: "yeah but they weren't actually angry, they were just pretending to be angry for the purpose of the test, so it doesn't count"?
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Been there, done that.
 
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