July 26, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
Human Weapon: Silat Warriors fought for Malaysia’s Independence?
Out of boredom I started watching Human Weapon and Fight Quest a while back.Both are serial semi-documentaries that explore various martial arts around the world. They are very similar (but Human Weapon aired first) - the only differences I could see were that HW had cool motion-captured animations explaining the forces behind the main techniques of each art, while FQ’s hosts were more critical of the martial arts they went up against.
There were real whoppers in Human Weapon’s coverage of Malaysian silat though - to believe their version of silat’s history, 20% of Malaysians practice silat and “thousands of silat warriors” died to achieve our independence in 1957! I’ve a clip that shows what they said at the beginning:
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Filed under: Entertainment, Malaysia
Tags: fight quest, human weapon, Malaysia, silat, Skeptic
