( Read more... )

Maybe I should make this a regular feature.


( Read more... )

I've been driving past this school on Elston Ave. for months, and I finally had an opportunity to take a few shots. Wow, I wish I could have seen it while they were making it.


( Read more... )

I remember watching my way through Jackie Chan's oeuvre a number of years ago. I think I should give those films another look, based on this collection of Chan's greatest stunts. Jesus Christ. I think I injured my pelvis watching this. Thanks to Rocketjumper for pointing this out.

Click to view

Click to view

My martial arts comic book ads article is now online.

The moment (about mid-video) where he beats the crap out of a guy with a book makes me want to defy Mike and get a PS3.

Real estate millionaire, martial arts master, and spiritual guru Count Dante wrote a memoir about his days on the Incredibly Strange Wrestling circuit. To promote it, sometime in May the Count, filmmaker Floyd Webb (at work on a documentary about the original Count), and I will put on a evening of martial arts mayhem at well-known family values ( Read more... )

Colonel Gentleman's List of Five Obscure Martial Arts mrdankelly Has Never Heard of Until Now

* Nguni stick fighting
* Indian Kalarippayattu
* Laotian Ling Lom
* Swedish Glima
* American Jailhouse Rock

Much more than what it cost to get one in 1975, but I've seen some go for $50 or more on eBay.


( Read more... )