Comments on: Fri, Dec 18th

By: Colm

Colm — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:55:10 +0000

Tony – 10:25
Stephen – 13:48
Dan – 16:28

By: Ger

Ger — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:35:06 +0000

5 rd’s of 300m run 15 pull ups: 9.16

By: Will Walshe

Will Walshe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:44:31 +0000

James – 9:28 as rx’d
Sarah – 15:19 (green band)
Paddy – 17:36 as rx’d
Eve – 18:22 (green, 10s for last 2 rounds)

And where the feck were the rest of you?

By: Ruairi

Ruairi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:41:21 +0000

Ah, I’ll be a bit nerdy here-

When Arthur Conan Doyle was writing Sherlock Holmes japanese jiu jitsu was just being introduced to Britain. An engineer called Barton-Wright who had trained in judo, jiu jitsu, wrestling and Savate, a type of french boxing, created his own hybrid martial art called ‘Bartitsu’. It also included particularly Edwardian stuff like fighting with umbrellas and canes.

Sherlock Holmes was famously equipped with a bit of knowledge in Bartitsu, and it allowed him to out-wrestle Moriarty at their showdown at Reichenbach Falls, Switzerland. The only thing Conan Doyle got wrong was the spelling unfortunately… he refers to it as ‘baritsu’ rather than Bartitsu.

Articles on Sherlock Holmes and Bartitsu (WFS) http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=33348

http://www.examiner.com/x-8685-Chicago-Martial-Arts-Examiner~y2009m11d20-What-is-Bartitsu-the-Sherlock-Holmes-martial-art

The Bartisu Society (WFS)
http://www.bartitsu.org/

YouTube Bartitsu documentary (WFS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tC5O7HV_KY

Guy Ritchie, who directed Sherlock Holmes, is actually a pretty good Brazillian Jiu Jitsu player, I think he’s a purple belt. Robert Downey Junior has said in interviews he is a Wing Chun Kung Fu guy and that he brought some of that to the fight scenes in the movie. I wonder if he chain-punched that Korean family in whose house he famously woke up in naked with no idea how he got there?

By: Colm

Colm — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:34:34 +0000

Voting Lines for the XFIT FACTOR are now closed!! Thanks for Voting and we’ll announce the (Surprising Results) tomorrow morning!!

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:53:24 +0000

Appartently Sherlock Holmes was some black belt in something or other.

If you want a big feck off screen, Cineworld in parnell street uses the old Imax theatre for some of the 3d films and it’s cool. I saw ‘UP’ there (highly recommend) and it was brill. HUGE screen. I think Screen 1 in the Savoy is one of the biggest in the country.

Love the cinema, loadsa films to see over Christmas. Watched ‘Nightmare before Christmas’ last night. Classic !

By: Colm

Colm — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:43:10 +0000

I’d mainly agree with Ruairi, more Titanic than Alien alright.

Sherlock Holmes should be good. I mean, when has Robert Downey Jr ever messed anything up? Apart from his life?

Ger,
I left the notepad in CrossFit with the scores from the last few days but Jimminy set the record with 6+ rounds on his first round, falling to 4+ on his last round.

By: Will Walshe

Will Walshe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:31:13 +0000

Hmmm, I think I would be more excited if that trailer had just been the 3 second clip of Iron Man and War Machine shooting at things. That other crap has put me off a little.

By: Pixie

Pixie — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:16:09 +0000

Sorry, that being apple.com it is of course WFS!

By: Pixie

Pixie — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:15:53 +0000

Cheers for the review Ruairi, might check out Avatar at some stage but I’m not hugely pushed. I would recommend everyone check out Where The Wild Things Are, tis great But far more importantly go and watch the new trailer for Iron Man 2, it looks fantastic!!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/