Return of Martial Arts Satire

My thanks to martial arts and self protection instructor, Andras Milward for bringing my attention to this excellent online series of martial arts satire. Before this website got a major upgrade I presented a regular feature known as "Martial Arts Satire". This highlighted more than martial arts, sketches where martial arts were used as an instrument, but humourous commentary on the martial arts. Tommy Cooper, Jim Carey and Paul Kaye all provided sketches that got increasingly close to the calloused knuckle of martial arts delusion and charlatanism. Other fan-crated material on YouTube perhaps got a little closer and sharper with their observations of martial absurdity. Then Danny R. McBride seemed to turn whole thing into art with his " The Foot Fist Way". This was a satire on a typical stripmall taekwondo school. As highly enjoyable as "The Foot Fist Way" was I still don't think it went far enough. It was a similar criticism I had for Alex Gillis's critical review of taekwondo's history, "A Killing Art".  

Anyway, "Enter the Dojo" is perhaps the sharpest thing created yet. It takes no prisoners in its commentary of the cross-training and reality-based self-defence subculture. In a time when brand new martial arts are popping up all over the place and often headed by people with serious self-delusion and absolutist ideas, this sort of work is much needed. 

"Enter the Dojo"