Hong Kong’s kung fu movies have been popular in the United States since the early 1970s, despite being re-edited, repackaged, badly dubbed and sometimes completely ruined by American distributors. In ...

Some movies no longer get the attention they deserve. We recall a trio of Hong Kong action films that either didn’t get the acclaim they merited, or have fallen off the radar. Known for urban crime ...

The Chronicle reported recently on the rise of a self-defence system called Krav Maga. Meaning “contact combat” in Hebrew, and originating in Bratislava, Slovakia, in the 1930s, it was first used by ...

Nearly 30 years ago, martial arts forever changed. UFC 1 was a catalyst to forever reshape the ideology, foundation, education, approach and very make up of self-defense and the martial arts. Simply ...

Source: "Karate Black Belt Leaping" by Spirit-Fire/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 Let’s start with the obvious: martial arts involve violence. A technique may focus on defending against violence - for example, an O ...