Jailhouse Rock, also known as 52 blocks or 52s is a collective term used to describe the fighting styles the evolved out of the US penal institutions…or in layman’s terms 52 hand blocks is basically a martial art created out of prison house brawls. If anyone has watched Prison Break, you’ll known how brutal prison…
Aggressive, joint-breaking and animalistic, Silat – the Indonesian martial art that often uses knives – has made an appearance on the silver screen and, according to some, may have given birth to the greatest martial arts fight scene ever filmed. Look back to 2011 and the world saw The Raid: Redemption hit the box office.…
Wing Chun is regarded as one of the best martial arts in the world. Invented by nuns in ancient China, this fighting style focuses on self-defense and fitness. With grabs and kicks and punches, this tradition is powerful and in the right (or wrong) hands, it can be an almost unstoppable force of power and…
If you’ve ever been out to a club you’ll have seen the bouncers at the door and lurking near the bar. Huge, full of muscle and usually balding (sorry but it’s true!), these men often have a darker history than just working at your local 90s night. Police officers, army vets, bodybuilders, bodyguards – the…
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…
Andy Hug is one of the great modern martial artists of our time. Born in Switzerland, Hug shoed amazing talent at sports, playing football at just six years old, he was selected to join Switzerland’s 16-and-under national team. By age 11, he took to martial arts much to his grandfather’s disdain. Hug would never know…
Sylvester Stallone is and always will be both an amazing actor and an amazing martial artist, but there comes a time and a place where even the best of the masters out they hand over their gloves and call it a day. But not Stallone! For a man who is turning 72 in a few…
Perhaps the greatest and best-known martial artist of all time wasn’t a wizened old man in ancient China or Japan, but a warrior, film actor and director, and writer in the 20th century. Bruce Lee, whose real name was Lee Jun-fan, was a cultural symbol, a driving force in the representation of Asians in cinema,…
Ninjas are some of the most feared and mysterious warriors in the history of warfare. Silent, deadly, and skilled in a variety of covert, unconventional methods of fighting and infiltration, they have captured the public’s imagination in many ways. They have made their way into pop culture as invincible assassins, and wielding deadly weapons. Sometimes,…
Who comes to mind when you think of deadly hand-to-hand fighters? Famous martial artists like Bruce Lee? Legendary MMA strikers like Chuck Liddell? Perhaps they were good in their own fields, but nothing trains lethality in close quarters combat like actually having to fight for your life on a regular basis, in a deadly environment.…