Kitten Night Farts

Something so refreshing about Polite Society (2023) is that we have this film about a teenage girl who wants to become a stuntwoman, who is actively working towards it, who improves across the film, and is allowed to actually fight? And it’s also completely detached from her gender? (People just bag on her dream job because it’s a difficult entertainment-industry career path).

Like Ria is a purple belt in her martial art (looked and sounded like karate but purple belt so maybe ju-jistu?) which is a high rank, meaning she’s been working towards it for a long long time. She’s also got a boxing bag hanging in her room that we see her training on, her sister holds pads for her, and she has two dummy’s in her backyard. Plus - her YouTube channel showcasing her progress and stuntwoman practice. Ria is living the martial arts dream tbh.

Ria and other characters use pieces of multiple martial arts in the film (I spotted Muay Thai, BJJ, Karate, Boxing, and of course Kung Fu). And while much of the fight scenes are stylised, there were very practical self defence elements mixed between (the double elbow strike down to someone grabbing your throat, for example). I love that Priya who played Ria apparently eagerly tried every stunt that she was allowed to because she knew Ria would have wanted to.

Overall, I just loved this film and the subtle details. Nida Manzoor has made a brilliant debut feature film and I want every to see it.

Action superhero / stuntperson / martial artist Chloé Bruce rehearsal compilation

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Chloé Bruce -  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1579713/

“Over the years, Chloe won too many titles to mention. 2001-02 Irish Overall Kata Champion, 2001 French Freestyle and Weapons Champion 1998-2000 Swiss Freestyle Champion, 1999 Traditional, Freestyle and Weapons World Champion, 1998 Traditional, Freestyle and Weapons World Champion, 1997 Traditional and Freestyle World Champion, 1996 Traditional and Freestyle World Champion, and many more Freestyle, Traditional and Weapons Champion titles through the late 90’s and early 2000’s in WKA, WAKO and FSK Championships. After 2000 Chloe became an even bigger star. She traveled the whole world to appear with various demo teams. She worked with Daniel Sterling and Mike Chat’s XMA. Chloe also appeared in various music videos. In 2003 Chloe became a professional actress. 

She holds the world record for the most scorpion kicks in one minute (39 kicks).”  

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@warriormale @imfemalewarrior wow

Keep training and fighting! 

-FemaleWarrior 

you know you’re a real friend when you’re willing to risk getting kicked in the head, just to make someone else look good

Sis who did two at once fucked me up.

The hug 💕

Woah

I want it

WHERE CAN I FIND ONE OF THESE

I actually got one of these! They’re the Chat Noir expandable staffs and they’re on sale right now! 

IG-@Thesamurairider

Go girl

I’m literally in love with her

All i can think of is the mulan scene 🗣LETS.GET.DOWN .TO .BUSINESS

Life goals

😢 ❤️ 👏🏽

I love how he let him cry, told him, “We cry as men” and didn’t hit him with the whole, “Big boys don’t cry” mess. That was lovely. 

Phenomenal. Allowed him to emote, then worked with him to understand the what and the why.

This gave me chills; this man is a true teacher. Children are definitely intelligent enough to understand the hard truths of life if you are intelligent and patient enough to know how to teach it to them. This is such an amazing example of respect to this kid’s emotions and maturation that you don’t always see adults extending to a young person. 

“Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art developed by African slaves in Brazil, and basically Africans wanted to disguise their martial arts and training as a dance, and I think Capoeira is one of the most beautiful things that has ever been created evolve from oppression.”

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High Kick Is Cool!

WHOOP

If you are gonna do some Judo… do it in style! 

When I say that I’m a woman who wants it all, I don’t mean I want a career and a family, I mean I want to wear fabulous dresses and kick ass while doing so.

Born in Guangzhou, China, Bow-sim Mark started seriously training in Wushu during high school, specializing in Tai Chi and Northern Shaolin. At the time, women who studied martial arts were almost unheard of. However, her talents caught the attention of the Great Grandmaster Fu Wing Way, one of the most decorated martial artists in China and founder of Fu Style Tai Chi. He ended up taking her in as his private student.

In 1984, Mark won a gold medal at the first International Tournament of T’ai chi ch’uan in Wuhan City. In 1995, she was named Black Belt magazine’s Kung-Fu artist of the year. Before Mark immigrated to the U.S., she was already famous all over China not just because she was a talented female martial artist, but because she was also better than most men in her craft.

“Everything is harder for a woman,” Mark told NextShark with some help in translating from her daughter Chris Yen.  “If a man has to work at 100% to excel, a woman must work at 150%! Not just in martial arts but in any field in order to be taken seriously.”

After teaching at her master’s school for 10 years, she emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1975 where she became one of the first people to introduce Wushu to the West.

“There were only a few Chinese kung-fu schools in Chinatown and mostly karate schools around the suburbs,” Mark said. “My school was the first Chinese ‘Wushu’ school and at the time, Wushu was not known yet in the West.”

As a successful martial arts master who’s had students open up schools themselves, Sifu Mark broke down what makes a good teacher. She notes that while there are many styles of Tai Chi, all tai chi can be judged by six characteristics and six requirements:

“The characteristics are that the movement should be circular, relaxed, calm, continuous, and done with intent and energy. The requirements are that the spine is naturally straight, the shoulders and elbows are sunk, the chest is empty, the movement originates in the waist, the pelvis is at a natural angle, and yin and yang are clear.”

Watch an interview with Bow-sim Mark here.

During lots of fighting scenes (in Rogue One : A Star Wars Story), did you have some cuts and bruises or did it just all went fine?

A little context:

Also:

I’ve been crushing on Donnie Yen since I first saw him in Iron Monkey like…whew.

what else has he been in that i should watch? All i know of is the Ip Man movies.

He frequently stars alongside Jet Li. I know he was in Hero too. That fight scene was legendary.

Sean O'Connell still has the best weigh-in stare downs

You guys, he’s back!

I didn’t know that I needed to see this until I saw it.

To put it simple. You DONT have to act tuff. To be a tough guy.  haha

So I looked this guy up. First, not shown in the first gif is the fact that he’s just wearing regular pants:

Also, he’s written a sci-fi novel and has spent time in Africa building a school and orphanage for abused teenage girls. So, good for that guy.

I love him

Need more men like him

Women Self Defense in 1947

I’m not sure what’s the best part of this video: the fact that she’s in heels, the fact that she does the whole thing looking like she don’t give a fuck, that chick in the back just exercising and enjoying the show, or the fact that both men and women are observing this and the girls are laughing and the guys look concerned/pensive as fuck as they watch all their tactics get shut down like nothing is even happening.

“I love people doubting me. I’m more motivated by proving people wrong than fulfilling everyone’s expectations.” -Ronda Rousey-