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Boogie · Feb 18, 2005

Okay, if any of you have seen the Yellow Bamboo videos, they are the "martial artists" who believe they can stop an attacker by yelling at them and making them fall down.

Their website was www.yellowbamboo.com, but now it seems to just be selling their tapes, and they don't have their hilarious demo tape up.

Anyway, apparently there was a challenge thrown around, and some Brazilian Jiu-jitsu guys in Australia arranged for a demonstration against them. They even allowed the Bamboo guys to get ready and to run at them from 50 feet out.

The results:

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

Matlock · Feb 18, 2005

:lol

Holy shit!

JackFrost2012 · Feb 18, 2005

I don't really get this video. They claimed they could stop martial artists by yelling at them? ...that was it? How is that a claim that could possibly be valid in this or any other universe?

Boogie · Feb 18, 2005

JackFrost2012 said:
I don't really get this video. They claimed they could stop martial artists by yelling at them? ...that was it? How is that a claim that could possibly be valid in this or any other universe?

Well, I think they actually believed that they could focus and direct their "Chi energy" to stop the attackers.

ManDudeChild · Feb 18, 2005

WTF. How is yelling supposed to (unless for the cops) supposed to stop an attacker?

Boogie · Feb 18, 2005

ManDudeChild said:
WTF. How is yelling supposed to (unless for the cops) supposed to stop an attacker?

Don't think about this rationally. They're delusioned, brainwashed kooks.

Blackace · Feb 18, 2005

ManDudeChild said:
WTF. How is yelling supposed to (unless for the cops) supposed to stop an attacker?

well cops at least yell then shoot....

LakeEarth · Feb 18, 2005

I just love the looks on their faces. "Why isn't my chi working?!?"

ManDudeChild · Feb 18, 2005

Wait, wait, wait! I got it. Ok, if you had REALLY good lungs you could yell so loud it would hurt the other persons head... um ... oh, like those yelling contest people. Make noise when clos.. no, that wouldn't work. I give up trying to figure it out. :lol

karasu · Feb 18, 2005

Its funnier how the jiujitsu guy ran straight at him and fell right over him. :lol

Smiles and Cries · Feb 18, 2005

LakeEarth said:
I just love the looks on their faces. "Why isn't my chi working?!?"

answer... your standing on sand

NLB2 · Feb 18, 2005

The video's down, or at least I couldn't download it, but I've seen it before. How is it that someone can get to the point where they think shit like this works?

Here are some more idiots being exposed:
http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3LD2E14GGRH8S16PP5XGBAS88O

LakeEarth · Feb 18, 2005

Smiles and Cries said:
answer... your standing on sand

Of course! It's the sounds from the beach interfering with the patterns of the airwaves, kinda like how thinking about the ocean blocked the evil children's mind control in Village of the Damned.

Or they are a bunch of fuckwads, I don't know.

Smiles and Cries · Feb 18, 2005

I would vote for fuckwads myself

Boogie · Feb 18, 2005

Smiles and Cries said:
answer... your standing on sand

But in all the Yellow bamboo videos, they're always "training" on the beach. ;P

Boogie · Feb 18, 2005

NLB2 said:
The video's down, or at least I couldn't download it, but I've seen it before. How is it that someone can get to the point where they think shit like this works?

Here are some more idiots being exposed:
http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3LD2E14GGRH8S16PP5XGBAS88O

Is this the dim mak one?

ManDudeChild · Feb 18, 2005

Boogie said:
But in all the Yellow bamboo videos, they're always "training" on the beach. ;P

Training. :lol

See now what I don't get is this. If these guys actually believe this shit works, but they need to get ready (Power up? :lol ), how is it practical in a fight? What are they supposed to do if someone isn't running at them, or is in their face? Would the fight be like this.

AssWad: *yell* ducks punch
AssWad 2: kicks AssWad
AssWad: *yell* *yell* *yell*
AssWad: *yell* *yell* *yell*
AssWad: *yell* *yell* *yell*
AssWad: *yell* *yell* *yell*
AssWad 2: *walks away confused*

As that's the ONLY way I can see someone using that. The guy flukes and dodges one attack, then starts yelling random shit. Other guy thinks they're bat shit crazy and leaves.

NLB2 · Feb 18, 2005

Boogie said:
Is this the dim mak one?

Yeah.

"Are you ok?"
"No, you just hit me in the head!"
or something like that. Pretty funny stuff.

Rorschach · Feb 18, 2005

Smiles and Cries said:
answer... your standing on sand

:lol I don't think anyone else got that. :|

DarienA · Feb 18, 2005

I use to love watching those Yellow Bamboo videos... hilarious.

Boogie · Feb 18, 2005

Found one of the original Yellow Bamboo videos, for anyone who hasn't seen them before:

http://www.yellowbamboohk.com/yellowbamboo/YB_Test_SwedishGroup_Surabrata.mov

impirius · Feb 18, 2005

The dog is the best part.

Blackace · Feb 18, 2005

I love how they all kind of remind me of the Emperor from return of the jedi in their video.. and like Road kill in the other one

Zelda-Bitch · Feb 18, 2005

:lol

Thank you!

Particle Physicist · Feb 18, 2005

Rorschach said:
:lol I don't think anyone else got that. :|

explain ?

Blackace · Feb 18, 2005

"Now use the Yellow Bamboo and strike me down"

Particle Physicist · Feb 18, 2005

Boogie said:
Found one of the original Yellow Bamboo videos, for anyone who hasn't seen them before:

http://www.yellowbamboohk.com/yellowbamboo/YB_Test_SwedishGroup_Surabrata.mov

:lol i love the guy thats having a seizer for no apparent reason about 24 seconds in.

Boogie · Feb 18, 2005

Blackace said:
"Now use the Yellow Bamboo and strike me down"

:lol

Smiles and Cries · Feb 18, 2005

quadriplegicjon said:
explain ?

Well my original thought was how do you get any real footing on Sand? Even using chi.

hgplayer1 · Feb 18, 2005

Boogie said:
Found one of the original Yellow Bamboo videos, for anyone who hasn't seen them before:

http://www.yellowbamboohk.com/yellowbamboo/YB_Test_SwedishGroup_Surabrata.mov

:lol @ spinning guy

Smiles and Cries · Feb 18, 2005

Boogie said:
Found one of the original Yellow Bamboo videos, for anyone who hasn't seen them before:

http://www.yellowbamboohk.com/yellowbamboo/YB_Test_SwedishGroup_Surabrata.mov

Oh my god... :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol total BULLSHIT but so damn funny

Blackace · Feb 18, 2005

Boogie said:
:lol

it is the way they hold their hands out that get my thinking like that! :lol

olimario · Feb 18, 2005

I could have taken those guys down... How pathetic.

olimario · Feb 18, 2005

Boogie said:
Found one of the original Yellow Bamboo videos, for anyone who hasn't seen them before:

http://www.yellowbamboohk.com/yellowbamboo/YB_Test_SwedishGroup_Surabrata.mov

Apparently Yellow Bamboo only works on other Yellow Bamboo members.

Rorschach · Feb 18, 2005

Boogie said:
Found one of the original Yellow Bamboo videos, for anyone who hasn't seen them before:

http://www.yellowbamboohk.com/yellowbamboo/YB_Test_SwedishGroup_Surabrata.mov

:lol :lol

way more · Feb 18, 2005

They should invest in these things.

demon · Feb 18, 2005

Boogie said:
Found one of the original Yellow Bamboo videos, for anyone who hasn't seen them before:

http://www.yellowbamboohk.com/yellowbamboo/YB_Test_SwedishGroup_Surabrata.mov

BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAA!!!!!!!!

...did you guys fall down yet?

whytemyke · Feb 18, 2005

I think the moral of the story is that if you wear a yellow shirt in a fight, you're fucked.

Wow. I'm laughing my ass off at this shit. :lol

3phemeral · Feb 18, 2005

olimario said:
Apparently Yellow Bamboo only works on other Yellow Bamboo members.

:lol

I have to show this update to my friends -- this is something akin to imaginging X-series video game character versus Y-series video game character. Yellow Bamboo Vs Reality

Mandark · Feb 18, 2005

http://www.martrix.org/video_clips.html

Yellow bamboo training, meditation, and in the bottom right "fighting." Oh yeah.

NLB2 · Feb 18, 2005

This thread would be a lot more fun if there was somebody trying to defend the Yellow Bamboo guys. Hopefully some kung fu guy'll stop by and say that Yellow Bamboo might be fake but his master can kill people by looking at them funny.

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