Tag Archives: martial arts

tygenco:

aninjamous:

senjukannon:

Bruce motherfucking Lee.

“I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once. But I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times.

Fuckin legendary

“Be water, my friend”.

Having taken Tai Chi and having discussed Bruce Lee with the teacher rather frequently, I can honestly say that the distance involved with his hand and the other persons chest is literally just for show.

Also, having been tossed by a hit the teacher called “Soft Water” (ie, I was lifted up and sent backwards by at least five feet, landing on my arse and laughing from the sheer novelty of not having felt the initial hit) I can point out that those guys who end up in the chairs are probably blinking and thinking “but I didn’t even feel anything… how’d I end up back here?”

bakerstreetbabes:

hedgehog-goulash7:

“Robert Downey, Jr. (Sherlock Holmes) is himself a passionate student of the martial arts, specifically Wing Chun kung fu. Stylistically, there is comparatively little to call between Wing Chun and the transitional London Prize Ring/early Queensberry Rules method of English boxing, which was likely what Conan Doyle had in mind for Holmes and which was incorporated into Bartitsu by (the style’s founder, E.W.) Barton-Wright. Both styles emphasize linear punching with vertical fists and protecting the central line of the body via skillful defense, including both percussive blocks and deflective parries. The two styles are so technically similar that it has even been speculated that Wing Chun may have been influenced by bare-knuckle boxing via European travelers visiting China – an intriguing, but unprovable theory.”  (The Bartitsu Society, “The substance of style: A review of the martial arts action in ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’”)

Nifty!