It's my martial arts world

[Drunk Monk]

Underwhelming.

totally.  could've been improved if combined with the swimsuit competition, but not by much.

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

I'm glad he wore a thong on under the loin cloth.

[Drunk Monk]

I now think Wushu would be improved with thongs & feathers

[Greg]

Wouldn't everything be better in thongs and feathers?

[Drunk Monk]

Wouldn't everything be better in thongs and feathers?

fair.

"Thongs and Feathers" would also make a good band name for a Pussycat Dolls knock-off.

[cranefly]

[Drunk Monk]

that was awesome

[cranefly]

Might be shoe-horning a bit with this, but a martial arts influence...

[Drunk Monk]

Might be shoe-horning a bit 

i see where you went with this one but i say it was shoe-horning.  not poaching this for kfm.  it was pretty surreal tho, and needed to be posted somewhere on DOOM.  those color schemes.  i particularly liked the lion on pointe.

[Drunk Monk]

[Drunk Monk]

[Drunk Monk]

so weird without an audience...

[cranefly]

That is truly bizarre.
It's always hard for the refs to look like they're trying to control things even as they stay out of the way (and let the wrestlers do their routine)...  Without a rambunctious audience, it's just so obvious.

[cranefly]

Sword-wielding scientists show how ancient fighting techniques spread across Bronze Age Europe

Bronze swords have been found by the thousands in graves, rivers, and bogs all across Europe. But because the alloy is so soft—and easy to mangle compared with later iron weapons—historians have long wondered whether these swords were battlefield tools or mere status symbols. Now, a team of archaeologists has staged modern fights with bronze swords to measure the resulting microscopic dings and dents. Sword-on-sword contact was a “big part” of Bronze Age fighting, they found, done with specific, artful moves that spread from region to region over time.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/...bronze-age