A new show following Forged in Fire - cutting/chopping competition. I have a feeling it will get repetitive soon, but so far I'm kind of entertained. Some defeated the chicken, but nobody, NOBODY beats the fish!

first guy short stroked and pulled in a bit much on the fish along with being in a bit of a hurry.

The other on took the fish on the side, basically chopping through it. to much surface area on the blade, he was in a rush.

Thought it was entertaining.

Agree with DSgrouse - no one used the correct approach on the fish. On Forged in Fire, the pros always chop starting at the spine where the most energy is required and then easily cut through the remainder.

Thought some of Golderberg's comments were pretty funny.

Michael

Goldberg was annoying. I could close my eyes and think I was watching wrestling. I was surprised that no one made it thru the course completely.

RMD

IMO a lot of them didn't have enough knife. The guy who won, on top of really knowing what he was doing, had a badass cleaver. I think having a long blade with a lot of forward weight was really important for all of the chopping they had to do.

If the challenges remain mostly the same from show to show, contestants will probably better blades.

Well we wAtched episode 3 last night, which was clearly shot as episode 2.

A lot of good stuff in the show. I wished the guy with the kopesh has the inside sharpened. He could have approached the fish differently.

The guy with the arming sword. What a fantastic job tempering that blade. He really did a fine job all the way through.

The cutting sports champ was gassed by the time of the watermelons. 11 penalties did him in.

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Originally posted by DSgrouse:
He really did a fine job all the way through

He did and looked good doing it. You'd think with his bulky frame and swinging that big blade would have had him gasping. Very economical movement repeated over and over, he looked like a great MLB batter.

Amazing the range of blades they allow to compete.
It seems like they're going to need to swap in a few more challenges that require speed and accuracy as opposed to power, or it will turn into to all badass swords and few knives. I would actually prefer swords, but the know is after all Kinfe or Death.

Season 2 is now in progress.

What the hell is wrong with these contestants? They bring blades that are more often than not either too long or too short or too thin or too heavy. Some of them are clearly only in good enough shape for a walk around the block and/or have no idea how attack the various obstacles. I'm not saying I'd do any better, but I guess it's hard finding well-prepared contestants.

A silly show at best but right in the middle a week or two back, a Cadillac ad pops up. I never see Cadillac ads and yet here they are?