By Chris Davis · 31 Oct 2018
The year was 1978, and a young Jackie Chan was taking the Hong Kong box office by storm. His hit movie Drunken Master, featuring his own fight choreography, opened the doors to a new genre of Kung Fu that featured physicality in a decidedly comedic fashion.Chan insisted on the new direction for Drunken Master.Unprecedented, the …
By Theo Karasavvas · Updated 14 Oct 202625 Oct 2018
The Greek martial arts were wrestling, boxing, pankration, and a fourth that almost nobody remembers: pammachon. The first three were Olympic events. The fourth survives in a single papyrus letter, one inscription, and a handful of later texts. This article provides an overview and insights on all four, what the ancient evidence says about Pammachon, …
By Chris Davis · 4 Oct 2018
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) was 30 million dollars’ worth of ultraviolence, a star with no previous martial arts training, and a director with a flair for dramatics. Should martial artists be offended or excited that this movie was so successful (and continues to be a pseudo-cult classic)?Tarantino’s TrainingQuentin Tarantino stated his ideas come from …
By Lisa Stone · 26 Sep 2018
An interview by Lisa Altobelli with UFC Hall of Famer Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell talks about his powerful experience when first confronted with alternative training techniques at The Pit. Liddell credits those crazy techniques with helping make him into a Force, along with The Pit’s owner, John Hackleman, who sparred against him for 19 minutes …
By Adriaan Odendaal · Updated 18 Oct 202623 Sep 2018
Filmed exclusively in Cape Town, South Africa, the first season of HBO Cinemax’s Warrior premiered in April 2019, based on an original long-lost idea by Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee gave much to the martial arts community before his death in 1973. One of his private notebooks held the sketch of a Kung Fu television series that …
By Chris Davis · 28 Aug 2018
Without a doubt, Jet Li is one of the most entertaining martial arts movie personalities of the current generation. In contrast to Jackie Chan, Li usually picks more serious fare for his roles. Before his crossover into the American movie market, he was even more serious than Westerners know him for.Source: © Golden Harvest / …
By Lisa Stone · 27 Aug 2018
Combat Arts training will vary greatly from style to style, and even within a style, depending on training approach and focus. The martial artist who is training to be a MMA and UFC fighter trains differently than the traditional martial artist who wants to increase and maximize their workout. However, traditional martial artists and professional …
By Chris Davis · 26 Aug 2018
Manny Pacquiao (Senator Manny Pacquiao, actually) is obviously the face of Filipino boxing to the world. However, it is truly impossible to understand how Pacquiao came to be the superstar he is without understanding where he came from. The elite Filipino boxing gym I attended gave me a unique insight as to how the Philippines …
By Lisa Stone · 24 Aug 2018
“What do Conor McGregor, Rickson Gracie, Movement, and Kung Fu have in common? The use of movement drills to increase the mobility, reflexes, balance, strength, and speed in practitioners. This skill was nearly lost, but a few are bringing it back. Most recently with Conor McGregor and Ido Portal. While Ido is concerned with movement for …
By Chris Davis · 24 Aug 2018
How many people were compelled to step into a dojo for the first time after seeing The Karate Kid? Thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions?Martial arts movies make us want to do martial arts. Plain and simple.A decade before anyone knew what the Octagon was or saw a UFC pay-per-view, people in droves were putting on …
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