Originally posted by Short Ninja:
I agree that 'fight science' can be misleading but is TKD the hardest punch/...sorry i lost the question mark on my keyboard
Yeah. There were 4 martial artists in the show, and the TKD guy registered the hardest hit on a punching pad. Actually, his technique was awful, even by modern TKD standards. The other 3 were just lighter and crappier than he was.
It was a fun show to watch; nice computer graphics and all. But watching it dropped my opinion of National Geographic as a serious science channel by miles. The people who did the show obviously had not the faintest idea how to set up proper experimental controls, do representative sampling, etc.