History Channel: Human Weapon - The Complete Season 1
by Jeffrey S. Woods, Jeffrey Woods, Jonathan Berman, Patrick Leigh-Bell, Todd Moss
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Actor: Bill Duff, Jason Chambers, Randy CoutureDirector: Jeffrey S. Woods, Jeffrey Woods, Jonathan Berman, Patrick Leigh-Bell, Todd Moss
Brand: A&E HOME VIDEO
Writer: Todd Moss
Producer: Adrian Maher
Writer: Adrian Maher
Producer: Brian O'Connor
Writer: Brian O'Connor
Producer: Cecile Bouchardeau
Writer: Cecile Bouchardeau
Producer: Christie Elwin
Writer: David Lane
Writer: Eric Wetherington
Writer: Kieron Barry
Writer: Rudy Fischmann
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.55:1
Running Time: 752 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
DVD Reviews of History Channel: Human Weapon - The Complete Season 1
DVD Review: human weapon
Summary: 5 Stars
was just looking for the Eskrima-Kali-Arnis episode. This was a great bargain, and included ALL the shows. Weeks of enjoyment and training ideas.DVD Review: Fulfiling world trip for martial artists
Summary: 4 Stars
If you are curious in martial arts or already a practioner this is a great resource for showing a wide range of martial arts styles. From this video you can pick-up some useful moves, see how different martial arts have adopted basic strikes, kicks and grabs. Learn something of the history behind each styles and culture that bred the various styles. The two hosts do a good job in making each episode entertaining, whilst providing plenty of interesting information. This series is not perfect, but martial artist from various styles I have spoken to who have seen this series have all found this video very interesting. One 2nd Dan black belt I have spoken to told me how he has taken several moves directly from this video, for inclusion into his submission for his next grading. I just hope there are more products like this produced in the future. DVD Review: Amazing experience
Summary: 5 Stars
I liked this series for so man reasons! Focused both on history and technique, shows enough to learn what the styles are like.
Like it was for me, I hope others who would like to buy this series get a chance to study the diferent martial arts from a perspective, especially if they would like to study one or several different styles (here you get a summary on them and learn from their effectiveness and your potential ini them).
DVD Review: Will there be a season 2?!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this show when it was on and I wish they would come out with a season 2 sometime soon. The shows were awesome ....they broke down the martial art styles and gave you a good background of each one. The host were pretty cool and they worked well together.DVD Review: HW - good but not great
Summary: 4 Stars
Human Weapon is a show that appeared on the History Channel during 2007. This dvd set contains all of the first season episodes and a few extras. The show predated the Discovery Channel's Fight Quest by a few months. Since comparisons will be inevitable, I will first comment on this dvd set in particular and then comment on the show itself.
The Human Weapon complete dvd set came with 4 dvds. There are some extras on the disks along with the usual chapter surfing through each of the episodes. You can chose which episode per disk you want to view first. The quality of the picture is about the same as it was when the show aired on HC. In general, I liked what was done with the dvd set and thought "this is what the Discovery Channel should have done with their Fight Quest dvd set".
Now, to the show itself. In my opinion, this show is not quite as entertaining as Fight Quest. Although both shows are good and follow a similar format, the differences in Human Weapon are what make it a little less than great. Both hosts in Human Weapon seem more rehearsed and staged. Also, only 1 host in Human Weapon must participate in competitive sparring by the end of each martial art exposure, whereas in Fight Quest the 2 hosts both had to compete at the end of their quests. Human Weapon had more explanation about the moves and the arts themselves than Fight Quest, which is something I liked better about Human Weapon. However, the fighting seemed less intense and real than the fights in Fight Quest. Also, partly because Human Weapon had more episodes, there are some arts that are different or are displayed in this show and not in Fight Quest. For example, Fight Quest contains episodes focused on Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Korean hapkido, which are not found in Human Weapon. Both shows contain episodes on karate, French savate, Chinese kung fu, and Israeli krav maga.
Trivia: Jimmy Smith from Fight Quest beat Jason Chambers of Human Weapon in a mixed martial arts fight in California, on May 12, 2006 according to Chambers' entry on wikipedia.
Overall, I recommend watching Human Weapon if you are into martial arts or just a little interested. This dvd set is better than Fight Quest's but the show itself was not quite as good as FQ.
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