You’re out and about at night, walking home from the pub and suddenly someone rushes up and grabs you from behind. In a moment of panic, you realize that you cannot see your assailant and have no idea how you are going to fend him off. With your arms basically tied behind your back, you…
That loud, sharp shout that you hear when watching martial arts movies is not just for show. Sure, it adds to the atmosphere of any movie as Jet Li flies through the air fist first or Tony Jaa dishes out another knee to the kidneys, but this shout or scream ‘kiai’ is more than theatrics,…
So to those of you who thought that the next Jean Claude Van Damme movie out was Black Water – think again. Our beloved JCVD is back, this time looking a bit like a Sith Lord on the poster of Lukas, an action thriller directed by Julien Leclercq. Lukas (aka The Bouncer) is a story…
A young man from Coventry, UK, was jailed after he launched a completely unprovoked attack on a man walking in the street, hitting him with a martial arts rice-flail, also known as a nunchaku. The man, 22-year-old Macaulay Jackson, was chucked in a cell for a total of 12 months after pleading guilty to charges…