I'm fascinated by a YouTube channel that occasionally shows montage videos of everyday folks of all ages training in the martial arts parks of Beijing. I'm drawn to it because of the simple, matter-of ...

Cobra Kai season 2 introduced some new students to Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka)’s dojo. There was middle-aged Raymond (Paul Walter Hauser) who takes on the warrior name Stingray, and then volatile ...

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 ...

Much like Daniel LaRusso in “The Karate Kid,” the teens in YouTube’s sequel series “Cobra Kai” got pretty damn good at karate pretty damn quickly. But just how much martial arts do the actors know in ...

Cobra Kai has turned Mary Mouser into a Karate action hero. Samantha LaRusso (Mouser) wasn’t practicing Karate in season 1, but by season 2 she was training with her father, Daniel (Ralph Macchio). By ...

Peter Brandon started teaching karate to a small group of men in a Nyanga hall in the late 1960s, often by candlelight. Today ...

When actors take on physically demanding roles in movies and TV shows, it often requires intense training. This might involve hand-to-hand combat, gun use, a specific sport, and martial arts. When it ...

QUANTICO, Va.--Capt. Louis E. Isabelle is in the ring, pounding furiously at Staff Sgt. Clive D. Mitchell. Fending off most of the blows with his heavy gloves, the sergeant gives as good as he gets. A ...