Kung Fu Football: WAT
Posted on 21. Jul, 2008 by Dallas VonKillbot in Sports, Videos
ComBATON, essentially a twisted mix of poor kung-fu and football, had to have been created in a late night, somkey bong session. I imagine while watching old ESPN hilights, one couch potato said to the other, "Man, this would be so much better... WITH NINJAS!'.
Fast forward to me stumbling along ComBATON.com, the official website of the 'sport'. What kind of pisses me off is that this is now being taught in some schools (the clip below is from a FL school), which means that someone's tax dollars are paying for idiot high school kids running around a gym, throwing sticks and kicking each other. It sounds like a badass idea, doesn't it? A team of martial artists are going at each other in football, and instead of blocking they throw Street Fighter II style dragon kicks! Yea, after some careful research, it's just not that cool. FAIL.
your an idiot! this is’nt tought in our schools. they pay to rent the gym for the game. So once again we have another screw ball writing about something they know nothing about, but have an opinion.If you have the guts come try the game, or are you affraid you might find it fun?
Idiots of a feather flock together. lol
http://apudgeisasandwich.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/twirs-combaton/
Paul,
I can only justify your comment if you tell me that the video shown above does not accurately depict the sport. If it doesn’t, hell, I’ll do a little more looking around the web to try to comprehend why you’re so stoked on me and my metaphorical guts. If that’s a pretty good depiction of the ’sport’, all I have to say is that at least something has finally taken over the XFL as “Most Retarded Football Spin-off”.
I never thought I would say this, but football + ninjas somehow= FAIL.
You can run your mouth. Can you run the baton?
Run the baton? I’m still waiting for someone to affirm that the clip is a proper representation of the ’sport’. If not, I would be very interested to investigate, but if not, it’s an absolutely horrid spectator sport.
What you saw was an ad run on ESPN in Miami. (The clip is annotated but I think you have to be actually on the YouTube page to see the annotations.)
comBATON has some similarities to football but instead of blocking and tackling, players contact their opponent(s) with martial art kicks. Two teams play on a field approximately the size of an high school gym, there are 3 players on each team. A baton is used as the focus of the game as would a football, soccer ball or basketball would be for their games. The offense has control of the baton. The offensive player with possession of the baton can score on their opponent’s goal pole by dislodging it with a martial art kick. Around the goal the strategy has similarities to basketball in that the baton can be thrown to teammates in order to find the open player in position to shoot on the goal and score. Take-downs and grappling are permitted on each end of the field in an area known as the strike zone. Go to http://www.combaton.com for more details.
This may help.
There’s no way this can be mildly amusing. I checked out the website, and it looks like they’ve just taken the interesting parts, i.e. the full contact, out of football and replaced it with kicks that mildly stun the offense and bizarre judo take-downs.
The weirdest part: a baton?! Out of everything, why a baton? Weak.
all the better to beat you over the head with my dear.
Maybe you should go to their YouTube page and see some ot the other “bizarre” stuff they do. http://www.youtube.com/combaton
Beatdown:
I did. It’s still the least action packed ’sport’ I can imagine. The fact of the matter is the creators took a great game, and ripped out the ferocity, replaced it with discipline and gave them a baton to make up for it. I urge some others who have not witnessed this yet to check it out and make the decision for themselves, but I don’t see how I can be solo over here thinking its a poor merger of 2 good things.
Are you including golf and bowling in your assessment? Frankly, nothing could be less “action packed” unless maybe it’s watching paint dry.
well this is very interesting to see how shallow some people can be… funy how some guy or whoever writes about a sport for martial arts not football player and turn into suttin they certainly dont know anything about… what a crazy opinion yeha thats fine but I would totally love to see you keep putting this sport down because the fact that a few people may not like it is fine but we never claimed to be football players so why would tackle someone its a martial arts sport for a reason people…but i obviosuly can see yall dont clearly know the difference and if you don’t liek it so much then why are you wasting your time talking about it to other threw blogs… whatever though
Dalh,
1st, for the love of god, please check your grammar before posting again.
2nd, wasting my time? Check it: 1. it’s my job, this is how I afford all those hookers and expensive cars and shit. 2. I’ve got an opinion, obviously one that has caught your attention, and I’m going to voice is where need be… fuck it, where it definitely doesn’t need to be too.
This is the dumbing down, the degradation of what I consider what is our national sport. This is that shitty Kiss cover band that can’t live up to a fraction of it’s predecessor. This isn’t interesting.
I love hearing opinions, but no one has given me a link yet with something that is remotely interesting pertaining to this ’sport’. The YouTube page didn’t do it for me, so someone please suggest otherwise.
Oh, ActionSportsLover, I’ll give you that much, although on Sunday mornings I have been known to watch a bit of TV golf.
We’re not going anywhere. It’s just like the Deuce of Davenport says “you can’t contain comBATON, you can only hope to control it”
http://www.deuceofdavenport.com/2008/01/yet-another-new-sport-combaton.html
PS Stay away from those hookers. I’d suggest you buy some stock in a baton company .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LrAtX8wg8U
If it is so boring then quit wasting your time with it. Not all people like football ( I myself do ), but that doesn’t make it a bad sport. Football is a hard and physical sport, but the martial arts is just as physical of a sport. Lets see how many football players would last when a spinning hook kick catches them up side the head while running toward their opponent and getting knocked unconcious because they don’t know how to defend it.
Did anyone see the interview with Tiki Barber trying Tae Kwon Do with the Lopez family in Texas. He said after he threw kicks and worked out with them that it was one of the hardest work outs he ever experienced. The conditioning needed for this sport is a whole lot different than any sport I have ever tried and I have done alot of different ones. I will say come watch the game live and see what you think.
As for as the game not being very action packed, I recall a game were the baton was passed to me. As I jumped in the air and caught it ( like a wide reciever would do ) I landed and turned to run their was a guy flying through the air with a side kick. The first thing I saw as I landed was a foot coming straight at me, catching me in the chest and leveling me flat on my back. It was one of the hardest licks I have ever taken. If that’s not action, then I’m not sure what your explanation of action is.
haha worrying about my grammer has nuttin to do with it so if u dont like it i dont think i really care…
yeah okay waisting your time is right b/c all that stuff does nuttin for me so I dont care about that either…
your choice on what you wnat for life so do it I personally dont care…
and yes it did catch my attention b/c i cnat believe how stupid you would have to be to pst suttin you know absoulutely nothing about… and if you cared so much about our nation then u would be doign strip clubs and stuff so that b.s. about our nation sport w/e shut the hell up b/c you obviously have no idea what a sport is i bet you cnat even play anythign and just sit and pick at suttin you wish you could do
so stop being jealous of it…
seriously if you cared so much you would sutttin about it instead of talking shit about stuff…
and there is only two other websites i know but of course they probably wont do anything for you just b/c ur a hard headed person…
http://www.combaton.com
http://www.myspace.com/combaton.com
how about that porr grammer now?
“how about that porr grammer now?”
…it’s great, man. To my amazement I don’t think I understood a single word of that paragraph… for the record, what’s ’suttin’ mean?
Ladies and gents, I bring you the numb, trashy morons associated with this ’sport’.
P.S.-”and if you cared so much about our nation then u would be doign strip clubs and stuff so that b.s. about our nation sport w/e shut the hell up b/c you obviously have no idea what a sport is”… priceless. Who let the meth-heads onto my internet? I’ll be off doign strip clubs and stuff, later.
okay first off u dont know me so before u call people stuff get ur damn facts straight… yeah do what ur good at picking on everything that is not good to you…
and obviosuly if you dont knwo what suttin is then ur just well slow per say.. b/c its like something just put together to… and im typing fast and i dont check my errors so thats probably why you cna’t get it…well replace that would with wouldn’t and then thats what i meant… stop acting like you care about our nation when you clearly dont.
and since when is this subject about the way I talk or write its about combaton but yeah you would change the subject to “something” (can u understand me now) claerly different from what you orginally started talking about!
Ah Dahl, glad you’re back with us! Mondays always need a few chuckles. I actually typed out a decent little paragraph for you, but since Firefox is acting up today, I’ll summarize.
1. You still spell horribly; but to aid to the epic lulz, the line “(can u understand me now)” is followed by the word [sic]“claerly”. Thanks for coming through for me.
2. I still have yet to have been presented with something that shows this is an exciting, stimulating spectator sport; which was my original premise. Lack of such evidence is really making me think ComBATON is full of FAIL.
3. Arguing with 16 y/o Florida chicks is actually what I do best, so please feel free to stop on in again with some form of substance.
I saw the kick that Paul is talking about. It is a fierce game but if you’ve never tried it, you wouldn’t understand. Paul is a hard fighter and if you knew him you’d take him at his word.
It’s sort of like watching a UFC match if you’ve never done MMA. You could never understand the adrenaline rush and way everything ceases to exist as your world narrows down to just you and your opponent.
Maybe you should watch “Million Dollar Baby” to get an idea since you keep talking about spectator sports and don’t seem to actually do any sport yourself.
As for Dahl, she’s a terrific martial artist. She has the power, beauty and grace you see in martial arts at the national level. She’s quite a fighter too and won’t back down.
Speaking of national levels, you might be interested to know that many of the players are national, yes I said national, champions in sparring, forms or both.
So maybe you should go pick on someone your own size and condition because you don’t get it now and I don’t think you ever will.
Maybe this will help.
haha omg this is so funny… b/c u actually think I care about what you do with 16 y/o Florida girls b/c
1. Stop acting like you know me
2. My spelling and typing are two different things
3. You entitled to you own opinion but just so you this isn’t over COMBATON will always be here if you like it or not. So fail or no fail it doesn’t matter.
Maybe I should stop listing things b/c that’s what you do…
a freaking low-life with nothing better to do but jack his jaws on a sport he probably cant even play…
so every give a big round of applause to an offical Jack Ass of the group…
yup that’s right I said it and I dont know but I dont care b/c it’s the truth…
the fact is that you think you are all that and that everybody is supposily scared to speak what they wnat but the fact is that they scared to kill your ass for being a total jerk in life…
nice to see you fial at life
(GREAT JOB by the way)
o my bad FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you get my comment on the French Kickboxing site? If not, let me know and I’ll send it again.
Here it is for your reading pleasure since I don’t think my post went through before.
Charter,
I’ve seen that link before, but thanks.
ComBATON Player,
I can see the comparisons to UFC, but I still believe that the lack of ferocity and brute force are going to cause this sport a lack of advancement. About the whole ‘me not playing any sports myself’, we’ll just keep it to the fact that yea, I’m pretty active and before some injuries, was playing at a college level. I can definitely believe that there are sparring champs playing, but still that doesn’t add to the sport.
Dahl,
You’re a tool.
Heyy,
I think this sport is actually kind of cool, and would be pretty fun to watch.
Umm Dallas.. Whatever?
You seriously need to leave Dahlberg15 alone. She’s my best friend and doesn’t need you talking to her like that. I think that you’re just on here to cause problems and yeah voice your opinion but leave it at that.
From what i see here it’s only people trying to blog about something they might want to do or make big one day, so when it gets big i’d like to see you then.
But, until then, let people do/say what they like without having internet bullies on their backs because that’s all i see you as.
But as for everyone else, i would just ignore this dallas whatever dude and he’ll either get very mad or just leave you alone and either way he’ll leave you alone because he wont be getting the attention he wants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srzYEcCOdi0
Check this one out.
ShakeIt,
Unfortunately I’m not just on here to cause problems, this is my job. This is how I afford piles of cocaine and big fighter jets with 24″ gold spinners to roll around in. I’m serious, you should check it out.
” From what i see here it’s only people trying to blog about something they might want to do or make big one day, so when it gets big i’d like to see you then.”
I do think you need to check out what we do a little more clearly. The is pretty much a music/ entertainment/ political/ tech/ random/ apocalyptic blog. I would urge you to check out our YouTube sponsored channel @ http://www.youtube.com/synthesismagazine for a better understanding.
FighterGirrl,
Thanks for bringing something to the table. While I’m still unsure that the sport could take off due to things I’ve said before, this particular clip was a ton better (and hopefully more representational of the sport). I’m hoping that the play is more take-down oriented, with an actual method to it, than people running around with a baton with no plan (which I’m sure is the case). Thanks again.
haha wow dude you can actually go that low on my friend ShakeIt!!! hahahahahaha wat a dang crack head with a wnat to be pilot liscense!!!
Im here though so much love!!!
Dahlberg15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDFxvZ_jSaI
If you can’t see an actual method now, I’ll know that you’re blind. No offense intended toward ACTUAL blind people.
Um, no thanks.
I don’t do crack or anything involving drugs.
Only smart people know how to make that choice.
And thanks but no thanks, i’m only here to help a friend out on you being rude to her. Sorry, but i don’t like that and if i don’t like something i’m going to say something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI0IfPSi3uU
For your viewing pleasure. BTW, this is the girls team. Lets see if you can do this.