JUST FOR LAUGHS: Worst. Blackbelt Test. EVER… And There Is Video!

Back when I used to take Karate, when we sparred in school, we wore gear and our sensei made sure to stay on top of us if we were getting sloppy, otherwise we would be forced to do push-ups or squats. Apparently, such isn’t the case for the school seen here in the video below, which has already gone viral in the past month or so, featuring a black belt test that was so ridiculously performed here that someone decided to edit the video with the sound track from the classic game, Street Fighter.

Shock Mansion reports that the students in this video all received their blackbelts following this test. Ask anyone in the martial arts community, be it online or in person after showing them this, and rest assured you will observe the same amount of laughter (or shame) being currently generated by the viewing public.

I’m no martial arts genius or anything. However, granted in real combat situations, you’re not expected to kick like Van Damme, but for a blackbelt, you are expected to kick with some technique in your execution with the intent to cause damage, that’s just my opinion. I think it’s safe to say these students are the laughing stock of the martial arts training community. They’re not even kicking, they’re tickling each other (and we’re the ones laughing). And what makes this even more entertainingly worse in its comedy is how each of them are giving each other props after each match, like “Thank you brother! Good work!”. And the group form at the end fails so much and so hard that the only thing that makes it win in the least bit is the added iconic fireball graphic from the aforementiomed game.

The video really is the best-worst thing to hit the internet as of late and it is DEFINITELY worth a laugh, if not a teachable moment for these backyard blackbelts. It’s obvious they take themselves seriously, which is all well and good. But after this video, they are naive to think anyone else will. And if this is what it means to be a black belt in the new millennium, I prefer thumbwrestling instead.