Martial arts

Hong Kong Cinema

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

The best heroes and villains are often reflections of each other, like Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty. Jocelyn Gonzales has observed this theme playing out in the martial arts films of China and Hong Kong. Besides making American action movies more exciting again, Hong Kong cinema has somehow combined Eastern philosophy with ferocious competition.

Lina Khalifeh (center), Batoul Jaikat (right) and one of the students at the SheFighter studio in Amman, Jordan.

This Jordanian started her country’s first self-defense studio for women

March 13, 2017Business

Why the Boston Marathon bombing made me watch mixed martial arts

April 21, 2014Sports

New play ‘Kung Fu’ looks at how Bruce Lee changed Hollywood

March 18, 2014Arts, Culture & Media

Combat Hopak: Ukraine’s Martial Art Based on a Traditional Dance

August 15, 2013

Remembering Keiko Fukuda, the Mother of Judo

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Keiko Fukuda, the woman who earned the distinction of becoming the highest ranking woman in Judo, has died at the age of 99.

American Muay Thai Fighter in Thailand

August 15, 2013Sports

Muay Thai boxing is Thailand’s national sport. Boxing with eight limbs – legs, knees and elbows as well as arms – is not for the faint-hearted, combatants can be female, and even American.

South Africa’s ancient art of stick fighting

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Intonga stick fighting is a martial art that has been practiced in southern Africa for centuries. In several townships around Cape Town, stick fighting is making a comeback, and earning some people some money. Reporter Anders Kelto explains.

Movie date: martial arts movies

August 14, 2013Sports

Rafer Guzman and Kristen Meinzer talk martial arts movies, including new (‘The Karate Kid,’ 2010) and old (‘The Karate Kid, 1984).

The push to make wushu an Olympic sport

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

China had been pushing hard to make its martial art, wushu, an Olympic sport.