This is a video of a young martial artist demonstrating a very impressive, and very fast bo staff routine. I hate to admit it, but this puts even my own curtain rod swinging to shame. I mean he didn’t even break a single window or picture frame. How do you
Because the human body is the finest machine ever crafted by the gods, this is a video of a member of the World Taekwondo Federation performing a 720° horizontal spinning kick quadruple board break. Most impressive. Could I do this? Maybe in a video game. Oh who am I kidding,
Presumably in an attempt to audition for the Ninja Turtles, this is a super short video of a man’s impressive spinning and flipping (plus knuckle cartwheel) routine while holding two swords. Are those real swords? I don’t think so. “Not bad, but fighting Shredder and the Foot Clan requires actual
This is a video from Insider of nunchuck master and stuntwoman Thekla Hutyrova discussing the proper use of the weapons while rating their use in different movie scenes. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that yelling “HI-YA!” and swinging them around as wildly as you can probably isn’t
Note: Just watch the video, if you aren’t impressed by thirty seconds you’re unimpressible. This is a video of the first place sparring routine at the 13th World Wushu Championships in 2015 as choreographed and performed by Xiao Wu and Long Long Shi with an insane empty hand versus spear
To celebrate his 67th birthday on April 7th, this is a one minute video compilation of martial artist and actor Jackie Chan jumping over things in his movies as smooth and effortlessly as water over a waterfall. It should come as no surprise that the parkour movement was partially inspired
In news that shouldn’t surprise anybody who values their crotch, the ancient art of ‘iron crotch’ kung fu is dying as more and more kung fu practitioners decide they don’t want to repeatedly get battering-rammed in the junk. Pfft, some warriors they are! Some more info while I punch myself
Because life, sometimes in the form of a punch, comes at you quick, this is a video of MMA fighter Xu Xiaodong jabbing self-proclaimed defense training tai chi master Chen Yong in the face hard enough in the first ten seconds of their fight for Chen to tap out. Wow,