From Taekwondo Champion to Hollywood Stuntman: Interview With Martial Artist Clayton Barber

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Nexus:   We have Clay Barber on the phone and Clay Barber is a former teammate of mine.  He’s a former U.S. National team member, former U.S. National team captain; he’s won medals – multiple medals – around the world and today we’re going to have a little interview with Clay.  So, Clay, for today we’re [...]

In this remake of a 1980s Martial Arts Fable is the Jacket On, Jacket Off

You don’t have a hot tub time machine to tell you that we’re in the middle of a pop-culture revival from the 1980s. It is not surprising since the kids who grew up watching the movies and television of that decade — “the a-team” and “The Karate Kid,” our limited to movies opening this week [...]

Georges St-Pierre Carries flag for mixed martial arts

A busty and honey-blonde model hugged him as a long-lost friend, tell how she laughs in Paris, had shared if cameras clicked away. But the man — Georges St-Pierre, the reigning champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight — couldn’t back the sentiment. A tricky smile froze on its rugged face. “I have no idea [...]

Madison Square Garden shows an interest in mixed martial arts

Radio City Music Hall, which is the garden works, will host a press conference on Wednesday for the Ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view card on Saturday in Newark. The fights, likely to be contested at the sold-out Prudential Center, is displayed on a big screen in Radio City. The garden also has a co-promotional deal with [...]

An artist of the Martial Natura, teaching peace

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Abdul Aziz, a practitioner of martial arts for 45 years and a karate sensei for 25, compares his hands with two protective, potentially deadly weapons. Mr Aziz, 53, who in Claremont Village in the South Bronx was growing up, began at age 8. For the last decade, he has taught karate for children on the [...]

Film about Chinese Martial arts master of China

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Donnie Yen, Centre, as the title character in “Ip Man,” directed by Wilson Yip. Wilson Yip from “Ip Man,” a biopic with a distant relationship with the real lives of the Chinese martial arts master of the title (whose students included Bruce Lee), is a proletarian kung-fu movie. for the first time given the bourgeois [...]

On New York Buddhist Church, Japanese Martial Arts

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Brian Harkin for the New York TimesRyan Kosloski sweeps the floor at the end of a night of classes to the Kokushi Budo Institute. More photos» NEW YORK is packed with closed doors, hidden communities and secret places. we pass by them all the time, without a hint of what’s inside, above, or, in this [...]

Children take Up Krav Maga

CHESHIRE, Conn. “The lies!” cried Madison Schiavi. Madison, an 8-year-old with a reddish-brown ponytail, had no words minced with her quick (and correct) response to the suggestion that they “talk about some important places we can hit.” Erika Barolli, 10 proposed “Pop their eardrum!”. “Or the eye socket Guts “. Jamie Arute, 37 a muscled [...]

Japan regains his Judo form

TOKYO — The nearly 800 judoka who descended from Tokyo from all over the world last week to compete in the 27 world Judo Championships arrived with one goal in mind: to win.And already had little doubt that the women in Japan would dominate Team, the team of men would rate anybody guess. after a [...]

Three cheers for a proper kung fu master

Women ask for his signature on a cafe where he has his black coffee. Workers stripped to the waist in the summer heat crowd against the edge of their truck and the Gulf. Tourists photos break since he along the Avenue of the Stars walks — a kind of Hollywood Walk of Fame here — [...]