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“The Legend of Bruce Lee” airs for free at FilmOn.com

Bruce Lee fans will get a free look at the 30 hour film of the complete life and legacy, The Legend of Bruce Lee, produced by Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee. The documentary series stars Danny Chan who bears a remarkable resemblance to the real Bruce Lee, and who has starred in another Bruce Lee [...]

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New York Comic Con invites TMNT and Korra for panel discussions

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stars Sean Ast and Mae Whitman will speak on a panel at the New York Comic Con Friday, October 11, from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., at the Empire Stage. TMNT executive producer Ciro Neili and story editor Brandon Auman will discuss what to expect in the new Season 2 debuting [...]

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Just kicking back in this funny karate street fight demonstration

A teenage girl attempts to use a karate kick in this just-for-fun karate street fight demonstration. Maybe the girl should have chosen something looser to wear than her tight denim mini-skirt. Maybe the girl needs to go back to her dojo for further instruction. Maybe the girl needs to sign up for karate lessons at [...]

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Brown Eyed Girls make pals with Jackie Chan at charity concert photo session

The band Brown Eyed Girls made a special appearance at the charity concert honoring Jackie Chan’s 100th film appearance that was held at Huanglong Stadium, Hangzhou, China the last day of September. The four girls and Jackie must have hit it off, for the ladies were all smiles after a long photo session with Chan. The [...]

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Phenominal growth rate in popularity of Nigerian taekwondo creating enthusiasm and problems

Maybe it has something to do with Nigeria’s national hero George Ashiru, silver medalist at the 4th All Africa Games in 1987, Team Manager of the 2008 Olympics, Seventh Degree Black Belt International Master Instructor, first time ever in Africa, and International Referee Class A, inductee to the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Hall of Fame, [...]

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In dedication to Morihei Ueshiba, the founding father of Aikido

An article appeared in Black Belt magazine back in 1968 featuring the father of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, who was 85-years-old at the time, and still practicing the martial art of Aikido, bringing down to the mat young men stronger than himself. The magazine tried to get some straight answers from the O-Sensei about the art [...]

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Season Two for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premieres October 12

  The second season of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series begins Saturday, October 12. The first episode “The Mutation Situation” shows how our four turtle heroes have discovered that alien Kraang has survived their last showdown ending the last season. Kraang has dropped mutagen canisters all over the City, and worse, has [...]

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Jason Sam wins gold and Outstanding Male Taekwondo Athlete of the 2013 PMG

Jason Sam of the Marshall Islands won the gold medal at the 2013 Pacific Mini Games. By knowing that he would face competitors who were all trained differently seemed to diffuse Jason’s nerves before the competition. After getting through the first round Jason felt more confident, relaxed and strong. His final match put him against [...]

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Gold medalist Kelsey Junius hopes to make the 2016 Olympic Taekwondo Team

  Kelsey Junius, a junior of South Windsor High School, Connecticut, competed at the 7th annual Pan American Taekwondo Championship in Queretaro, Mexico, and brought home the gold medal. Competing against seven girls in her division she kept her eye on the goal: the opportunity to make the 2014 Youth Olympic Taekwondo Team, and an [...]

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Jesse Enkamp believes karate to be the world’s best martial art form

Jesse Enkamp wishes to express his reasons why he thinks karate is the World’s best martial arts form. First he explains the need to define “best.” Best at what? Competition? Self-defense? Physical training? In Jesse’s opinion the “best” is what you love the most. And he loves, of course, karate! He loves karate’s variety of [...]

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These pictures alone of small children practicing Wushu show artistic promise

Wushu, an artform incorporating martial arts, dance, and acrobatics, is practiced by this school of small children in Kathmandu, Nepal. The artistry of the students are phenominal. The pictures shown have a wonderful artistry of their own. These 5- to 6-year-old students can kick well over their own height, and train with swords, spears, and [...]

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Martial arts, dancing, and acrobatics combined: the art of Wushu!

These four videos demonstrate the beautiful, graceful art of Wushu, a combination of martial arts, dancing, and arcobatics. Wushu has become an international sport with required routines at all levels. The first video shows Jet Li at age 8 performing Wushu. The second and third show World Wushu Champion Jade Xu. The fourth is from [...]

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Two videos display clever technique and skill to overcome a larger opponent

In these two video clever techniques are used to overcome a much larger opponent. In the first video a woman wins a friendly wrestling match with a man much larger around than her before a huge crowd of spectators at a fair or festival of some kind. She uses a duck under throw that happens [...]

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Steven Seagal make surprise visit to Russian university and teaches an aikido class

The students of Udmurtia University in Russia arrived at Aikido class to find they would receive instruction that day from guest martial artist and international known actor Steven Seagal. The University thought to keep his visit a secret so the entire campus and media would show up. They wanted the experience for the students to [...]

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Five-year-old boy with black belt in karate overcomes disease

What would you do if you were 3-years-old, had painfully stiff joints, and been told by a doctor that you suffered from juvenile arthritis and an immune deficiency disease? Probably go back to playing with your red fire truck and watching cartoons, right? Not so for Jake Frood. After watching the movie The Karate Kid, [...]

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‘Teen rises to assistant karate instructor

Keep up with your karate training and you, too, can rise to assistant instructor. Take Nicholas Dean, a sophmore from Lincoln Pius High School and a black belt in karate; he now works as an assistant instructor at Lincoln Karate Clinic. Lincoln Karate Clinic has been a wonderful school for Dean. It teaches more than [...]

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The art of winning a fight is the art of making no mistakes

Joe Lewis says the victor of any sport is the one who makes the least amount of mistakes. Therefore, he has comprised a list of common errors to avoid when training in kickboxing. The first six are as follows: Try to counter when you should lead the attack Failing to step when you punch Rushing [...]

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Jackie Chan is alive and kicking in CZ12

Jackie Chan is alive and kicking (contrary to popular belief via the “Jackie Chan is Dead” hoaxes) and doing extraordinarily well for this 59-year-old actor and favored martial artist, as you can see in this trailer of his latest film CZ12 scheduled for release in theaters this October 18. Jackie reprises his role as Asian [...]

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Francisco Filho fights off 100 men in a 100 man kumite

Francisco Filho accepted a challenge to a 100 man kumite. He has to fight off 100 men of varying skill levels one at a time for no more than one and a half minutes each. Filho has actually succeed twice in this competition. After winning the World Open Tournament in 1999, he became a K-1 [...]

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Video demonstrates how to use aikido to thwart a throat attack

Black Belt has invited Guillermo Gomez to demonstrate how to use aikido to stop a front choke attack. Gomez demonstrates concentrating on the opponent’s wrist, using a nikyo immobilaztion technique, pressure on the wrist, to cause the opponent to release his grip on your throat. “[Nikyo] enables me to control the wrist,” Guillermo Gomez says, [...]

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