Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Extreme martial arts


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   Keep, consensus is that is a valid verifiable and notable article. Davewild (talk) 17:45, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Extreme martial arts

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Sole reference seems to be somebody's blog site. In Japanese. Orphaned. Is this real? Jenny 00:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep I searched Google and found a website about it. It looks notable. You should check it out. Here is the link. -- Vh o scythe chatter 12:01, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  16:54, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong keep - I have heard about this for quite a while, I also saw some performances on YouTube. The idea is funny (it is not really a martial art, but an acrobatics show with the moves mimmicking fancy kicks and hits, the stranger, the better), but the phenomenon does exist. Pundit | utter  18:21, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep article needs work but subject is notable. JJL (talk) 19:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * We've had this article for two years now and still it doesn't contain a single reliable source. Even during this discussion, nobody suggesting "keep" has added a reliable source to the article, and it remains unverified.  --Jenny 06:20, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * keep - A stub at the moment, but XMA crops up all over. Displays were done as the Seni show over the last few years. I'll see if I can pull up some source on competitions, for notability. --Nate1481(t/c) 09:09, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * p.s. Try a search for XMA on youtube to see how common it is.
 * Keep - satisfies WP:N and WP:V - though the article is a stub and needs work. I was not familiar with this topic prior to reviewing it for the AfD, but Google found that XMA was the subject of a Discovery channel documentary showing the use of the Motion Analysis Studios technology to analyze the movements of the martial art.  That establishes notability. --Jack-A-Roe (talk) 05:30, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I know of the documentary, which has a title like that of this article. However the blurb on imdb does not seem to refer to a school of martial arts, rather to martial arts in general.  The existence of such a school, and the suggestion that the school was the subject of the documentary, is therefore in doubt. --Jenny 09:06, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It appears that the documentary does refer to the same style of martial arts as this article. (I don't think it's a formal "school", rather it appears to be an informal combination of martial arts and athletic disciplines). The featured martial artist in the documentary is Michael Chaturantabut, who is named in the article as the founder of this form of martial arts.  Google shows examples of tournaments  for this form or its inclusion in local Tae Kwan Do tournaments ; and that there are at least some  local schools for this form  .  (Those links are not intended as RS for the article, just examples that the term is in common use to describe a style of martial arts).    I did some more Googling and found that XMA is listed in The Complete Guide to American Karate & Tae Kwon Do (co-authored by Chuck Norris); the description in the book matches the description in the article, so I added the reference.--Jack-A-Roe (talk) 17:12, 11 July 2008 (UTC)


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