[jokilewqs]

Is there anything you would like to see?

To try to paraphrase some of the other comments, I guess a lot of us would like to see a line drawn between reenactment groups, SCA, etc; online fighting; and martial arts.

I think it's obvious why these things would all be shown together in one TV show. J Random American doesn't differentiate between them, so why shouldn't a documentary intended for the layperson not include all of them? The value is to show the common public the range of options and the general differences between them. Why is it so surprising?

One thing I would very much like to see, but I don't really expect it to have much room in a show such as this, is some serious discussion of America's love affair with violence. I mean, as others have said, our martial arts practice is about the art and not really so much about fighting, and the people who join expecting to learn how to slice and dice leave disappointed. I think it says something that in our culture people automatically expect Japanese Sword Arts to be more Kill Bill than meditative kyudo. And upon learning that it is not Kill Bill, we get ridiculous discussions like the kendo vs kenjutsu and the jodo treatise threads which criticize the practice as being illegitimate because they are (seemingly?) not battlefield effective. In a similar way, there are plenty of people who are attracted to the SCA for the fighting, and not the reenactment. The SCA could be an entirely interesting community with no fighting, and yet fighting is a fundamental part of the culture. Then we have things like the Dog Brothers, who are only about fighting.