This is a video of taekwondo practicioner minsungimdang demonstrating his insane skill with a flipping and twirling jumpkick that absolutely devastates four boards. That poor wood! Of course I say jumpkick but he’s actually launched into the air by two helpers. Regardless, dude is basically the fifth ninja turtle. Plus
This is a video from GQ featuring martial artist and actor Scott Adkins discussing various fight scenes from the John Wick films. In a nutshell, “The films are quite over the top, but the martial arts is very realistic and reality based.” Good to know — so if I trained
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