In earlier weeks we were tasked with embedding a video and sharing it. Many students choose videos with persons doing exercises or demonstrating how to preform exercises or use equipment properly. As for i choose to embed a clip of a fight scene from the movie "The protector" obtained from YouTube starring the actor Tony Jaa.  I would first like to apologize to anyone that was offended by the post for that was not my intention at all. secondly i would like to defend myself and my choice because i was told it was an inappropriate video due to the violence it depicting. I find the latter to be very amusing not because i deny that it shows acts of violence and aggression but because other types of violence are more than acceptable such as contact sports which depict actual people performing violent and aggressive acts everyday. We sit down as families to watch the athletes involved in sports everyday commit violent/aggressive acts and railroad our children to view this as appropriate but the beauty of choreographed fight scene is missed.  I didn't pick the clip because it was so violent but because it took the actors involved in more than a year to finish the entire scene. The scene included professional in our filed, athletes of all sports, martial artist, strength coaches, etc. When i see this choreographed scenes in movies i don't see the imaginary blood and stupid one liners but rather the hard work of dedicated professional and do mean professionals doing what they love and doing it well. So next time you watch a movie try not to see what Hollywood wants you focus on the blood and guts but rather think of the skill it took for the actors to preform these moves so convincingly that you felt it was almost real. Think of the years to decades of training of all the people involved the time taken to shoot these scenes, the jobs provided by these companies for people to do what they love and get paid, the exposure to different cultures that individuals get when watching these films. I know for a fact i wold not have begun to train martial arts had i not watched Black belt theater as a child.  

So was they clip violent yes but so is everyday life and no more violent than sitting down and watching the nightly news to here they murders of the day and we have all sat through that report more than once. again i didn't want to offend anyone but try and look deeper into the clip.