I hate it too. Every martial arts film I have seen, or any film based around feudal Asia has all this jumpy, floaty, flying nonsense going on. It looks stupid. I know it's not a martial arts film, but I watched "Chi Bi" the other night and people were getting hit and flying 20ft backwards through the air, stepping on thin air to attack people, utter tripe it was. Seriously, they'll be young kids being asked "What do you know about Japan?" and they'll answer "They can fly".