Fighting
The Martial Warrior: “I can kick your ass – but I won’t.” The Martial Scholar: “I can kick your ass – but first I’ll outsmart you.” The Martial Monk: “I can kick your ass – but that’s not the issue.” One of the three principles of TanDao’s Proactive Strategy is controlled degrees of response. Martial [...]
Long ago, while standing in a crowded New York City bus I was violently shoved from behind. I spun around in a fighting position. My mugger turned out to be a terrified elderly woman clutching a bag of groceries. She fell into me when the bus jerked to a sudden stop. Fortunately, my defense was [...]
The fight scene in HBO’s Deadwood between Dan Dority (W. Earl Brown) and Hearst’s goon and body guard Captain Turner (Allan Graf) is one of the most realistic screen fight scenes filmed. Be forewarned it is brutal and ugly, like real fighting. Allan Graf was also the stunt coordinator for this fight (and several other [...]
Pow. Crunch. Crack. We all love movie fight scenes. Remember those awesome fights in Sherlock Holmes, Roadhouse, Bourne Identity or Enter the Dragon? During my life long martial arts journey, I had the opportunity to design fights for films in the U. S. and Hong Kong. But that was years ago. The passage of time [...]
