Traffic jams are an inevitable part of commuting by car. Most people will sit there, staring intently at the car in front, willing it to move forward and getting more stressed with every passing minute. But not this lady! A woman in China was seen hopping out of her car during a particularly bad jam…
He wouldn’t stop until he got a Black Belt…. There are two types of people in this world; The type who will invent as many reasons as possible as to why they can’t achieve something, even though from a viewers standpoint, they have everything in their favour; able-body, health and the finances to make it…
A few months back I accidentally came across a video on Instagram, shot from a Martial Arts gym in Louisville, Kentucky. The video was of a young guy addressing his fellow classmates, thanking them for their support in what had been some really tough years. He spoke of how his coach, Chewy, had taken him…
Jin Zhang, John Zhang and Max Zhang are just three of the many names that Zhang has adopted during his career as a professional martial arts movie star. If you hadn’t guessed already, we are talking about one person, most commonly known as Max Zhang these days. Born in 1974 in Chongqing, China, Zhang grew…
The most heavily promoted “Money In The Bank” match was with Ronda Rousey. This is the first time the WWE has had a woman as its biggest mainstream star. Although her fight with Nia Jax was not on last, it still was given the heaviest promotional push of the whole event. This was Rouseys’ second…
The film career of Jet Li very nearly didn’t happen. In 1979, when director Cheung Sing-Yim had cast the first ‘Shaolin Temple’ film, he had done so using Chinese Opera performers, with the aim of teaching the actors how to fight. He realized soon into production that this was clearly not working. At the risk of…
Tony Jaa, the Thai actor most famed for his role in Ong Bak – a Thai martial arts film that gained a cult following for is brutal and aggressive display of Muay Thai in cinema – is perhaps one of the most underrated martial arts movie heroes of all time. A stunt-man turned actor, Japanom…
He’s Amazing, but quite possibly a total crackpot! Steven Seagal, the self-described Alpha Male, was born in Michigan in 1952. His parents Patricia and Samuel were a Medical Technician and a High School Maths teacher respectively, with a mixture of German, Dutch, Irish, Russian Jewish, English, and Mongolian Heritage. He was a frail child, who…
This is the story of the greatest samurai who ever lived. A samurai who faced many duels but never lost. The samurai who fought and beat the best martial arts expert in ancient Japan and the one samurai who lived to see the truth in avoiding death rather than facing it head on. Tsukahara Bokuden…
Perhaps no rivalry in cinematic history is as legendary as the one between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. What a marvel it is that two of the greatest action heroes of all time were contemporaries! But after some three decades of being neck and neck in the Hollywood world, who ultimately had a greater, more…