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Last Thursday night when I got home from Judo, I couldn't fall asleep. I was channel surfing, waiting for my eyelids to grow heavy when I accidentally stumbled across a pilot for a show called, "Trial by Fire" on the History Channel. So far, it's been aired twice, both times on the same day. Hopefully the folks at History Channel will run it again.

The premise for the show is Tim Ferriss, a "life hacker" has only 5 days to learn a skill which typically takes upwards of 5-20 years to master. Tim takes various tasks, deconstructs them into their pieces to gain understanding, then reincorporates the parts.

The pilot: master yabusame, mounted Japanese archery. Full gallop, no hands, no safety gear, and hitting targets. Tim gains access to renowned masters of the various disciplines, including horseback riding and archery.

I stumbled across the final 15 minutes of the show, and crawled out of bed to set the DVR on our main TV. It was a very interesting look at this martial art.

Hopefully the History Channel will air this again. It was shot entirely in Japan, and was very well done.

I saw the show and it was pretty cool. My buddy and I were working on a webwite and stumbled across it. If you get a chance to watch it again, he incorporates a lot of the stuff we do at the dojo. He just does in incredibly fast.