Only about the first 15 seconds of this video are interesting. But because it’s in French, it takes another minute and 45 seconds to provide the context. So if you only want to watch the super sweet part, here’s what happens: One dude tries to pull some lame prank on a passerby in a hat. The prankster takes off running, right past another random dude, who just happens to be awesome at karate. Now, watch.

They say that people who are good at martial arts will still lose in a street fight because streetfighters don’t follow the same rules of fighting as someone skilled in martial arts. So I thought, Well, then you should probably just be a streetfighter! But after seeing this awesome flying knockout kick to the neck, I’m not so sure that theory is correct.

Having grown up in a fairly ghetto part of Chicago and being a 6′3, 245 lb black guy, I always feel like I have the “intimidation factor” in a fight. I honestly and truly believed that, until I got my ass kicked today by a 5′6, 150 lb little white Israeli guy.

Yael, an officer in the Isaeli Army, beat me mercilessly using the technique of Krav Maga. In this part of my schooling at Anapolis we are learning different kinds of fighting techniques and styles, and I already have a strong history in Tae Kwon Do and Karate. A reasonable person would think that this knowledge would give me an advantage.

That reasonable person would actually be out of his motherfu**ing mind.

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Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler, a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler, played by Sean Faris, is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother’s shot at a professional tennis career.

Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler.

Everybody and their mother has seen the afro dude eat it while attempting a back-flip at a kung-fu audition. It was one of the first viral classics of the Internet age.

But what about the rest? What about the other schmucks who pretend to be well-versed in karate when in fact they’re about as skilled as this guy in hand-to-hand combat?

The best of the rest (and our favorite afro-boy wonder) are here to strut their lack of stuff for our amusement: