Show notes will be coming soon; enlisting some help from Eddie for this one, so bear with us.

I'll have links for this stuff soon, but for now here's a list, care of Eddie.

List of styles:
Hung Gar
Choy Lay Fut
Fut Ga
Wing Chun
Pa Kua Chang/Ba Gua Zhang
Chin'na
Tai Chi
Hsing-i
Wu Shu

The style of Kung Fu Cinema we talk about is called Wu Xia
The school that Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao trained at was the Peking Opera House

Pan Gai Noon is the Kung Fu style that was converted into a Karate style, called Uechi-ryu

Non-kung fu styles Eddie mention:
Penjak silat
Kali
Eskrima
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Muay Thai
Judo

Kung Fu Movies we reference:
Five Deadly Venoms
Ip Man
Master of the Flying Guillotine
Fist of the White Lotus
Wheels on Meals
Drunken Master 2
Supercop
Ong Bak
Thom Young Goon

More to come

Thanks Eddie!

You mean The Ice Storm.

I'd just like to give a quick thanks for getting the file size back down. I was almost going to have to delete episodes to keep my main HD free, and we don't want that!

Oh, and the movie appears to be 'Crouching Tiger, Hideen Dragon', which I assume is the correct translation.

Great commentary, I'm so proud of you guys, you managed to mention nearly all of the great movies (and far better) movies out there, from Hero to Tai Chi Master to the 5 Venoms.

A great Karate film is Black Belt, a Japanese film from a couple of years ago.

Requiem,

I'm of a similar mind.  I studied Kung Fu and got my Black Sash at 18.  At the same time, I was doing a lot of JKD and entered in a bare knuckle Karate tournament called the Shidokan.  They have it in Chicago every year or so.  Anyway, I felt a limitation of what Kung Fu could offer me in terms of practical fighting.  I transitioned to Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and haven't much looked back since.  I love Kung Fu, and many of the principles of how to strike remain true, particularly with energy transference and the physics of striking, but the techniques were a little on the lower percentage scale of things for my liking. 

As for taking two hits before ending a fight?  Well, mileage may vary, but I don't necessarily agree with that.  Sometimes you'll take no hits, sometimes you'll take a bunch.  The number of hits seems less consequential than the effectiveness of those hits.  One strike can put you down.  Conversely, I had one guy punch me in the face I think ten times in one sparring session, but I could time it and was always at the end of his punches, so aside from a red nose, it didn't do any damage.

WHere do you live?  I could make some recommendations.

I watched A:TLA episode 1 season 1, is the rest of it the same or does it change?

To Eddie: I live in Sacramento.

I have been watching Avatar at work (my job is boring) and am almost done with it now.  Amazing show.  Funny, touching, and with characters who develop!  On a kids' show!  I so very doubt the movie will be able to capture the same tone.

The good thing is that, unlike a book-to-movie adaptation, even if the movie sucks, I can still watch the awesomeness that is the show.  The fights are excellently produced in the cartoon, and while I would love for them to be done justice in live-action, if they don't it really isn't that big of a deal.