Walk into any studio on a weekday evening and you'll notice something odd. The room is full of people who, on paper, have ...

Martial arts studios, gyms, dojos, academies—whatever you want to call them—have suffered like most other in-person businesses during the pandemic. Many gyms have shut down entirely, while others ...

When I was an undergraduate in the late 1980s, I did several research projects on the physiology of martial arts. At that time, there was literally only a handful of published scientific research on ...

So we’ve watched a couple of movies starring Jackie Chan. Now we want to kick it like Jackie Chan. Where do we even start? China, obviously, but to the uninitiated the path to learning authentic kung ...

Training in traditional martial arts requires physical and mental focus. As contrasted with martial arts that that focus exclusively on competition and fighting, traditional here means those practices ...

April 25 (UPI) --A group of students studying an unusual form of Kung Fu showed off their strength by swinging heavy wooden boxes from their genitals. The video, recorded during an April 8 practice ...

Peyton List portrays the ruthless teen Tory Nichols on Cobra Kai, and like her character, List has taken a few kickboxing classes in the past. Though List also played basketball and ran track and ...

Pat Egan and his students flip through the air, leap over boxes, and scale ropes that hang from the ceiling and drape across the room at Ultimate Kung Fu in Fargo. The business offers personal ...

They kick, they tumble and, sometimes, they even fly. They spend hours perfecting elbow strikes and practicing defensive stances. They’re local youngsters with dreams of black belt glory, and they’re ...

I recently had an interesting conversation with a friend who is a parent of a baseball player. He rebuked my suggestion to have his son try a few free classes at a martial arts gym, citing how much ...