It's my martial arts world

[Drunk Monk]

[Drunk Monk]

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Live ya, too, Corkscrew-Kick Lady!

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

Even in Tennis they are talking about Shaolin Warriors. This comes from an interview with Daniel Medvedev who is facing Rafael Nadal in the finals of the 2019 US Open Tennis Championship in New York today. He made news earlier in the tournament for screaming at a ball boy and pissing off the New York Fans.

"She's helping me a lot," Medvedev said of Dauzet. "I was sitting after these matches and I was like, I don't want to lose matches because I got crazy or because I lose concentration because of the fans, because of the referee. I want to lose tennis matches because I was a worse tennis player than my opponent."
Dauzet said that her work is informed by an interest in Chinese medicine, meditation and the philosophy of the Shaolin Warriors, an order of Chinese monks famous for cultivating one of the oldest and most respected forms of kung fu. She would like for Medvedev to achieve the same inner calm and sensory awareness.
"When a Shaolin fights, he never even looks around," Dauzet said. "He just feels the things going on."
When it comes to Medvedev's talents, though, she leaps from ancient China into the digital age.
"His mind is very big," she said. "It is very complex, like a computer, it has many things and he can join all the points in one second."

You can find the entire article here: https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/2...open-final

[Drunk Monk]

Nice one. I’ll poach it for KFM when I get back from vacay

[Greg]

How about this one:

Snake Eyes

THR reports Iko Uwais (The Raid, The Raid 2) is currently in talks to play Hard Master, Snake Eyes’ “tough as nails teacher who is also a skilled sword master” in Robert Schwentke G.I Joe: A Real American Hero spinoff movie.

[Drunk Monk]

Posted that last week

[Greg]

Not here you didn't!

[Drunk Monk]

an oldie but a goodie

not willing to search through 61 pages of posts to see if i posted it here before.  even if i did, this bears repeating.

[thatguy]

Ok Doomers, I need help identifying a movie for a friend. He was recalling a movie he saw once as a kid on a Saturday kung fu theater where an upstart was in a standoff with a master. They traded “I am the best with <fill in the blank> style” repartee, but then the upstart was trounced when the master whipped out “goldfish style”. That’s all he remembers from the film. Any ideas?

—tg

[King Bob]

In the UK, they did a study of energy expenditure while wearing armor

Short answer: a lot.

[Drunk Monk]

Ok Doomers, I need help identifying a movie for a friend. He was recalling a movie he saw once as a kid on a Saturday kung fu theater where an upstart was in a standoff with a master. They traded “I am the best with <fill in the blank> style” repartee, but then the upstart was trounced when the master whipped out “goldfish style”. That’s all he remembers from the film. Any ideas?

—tg

goldfish?  wow.  got me on this one.  i did a search and all sorts of wackiness came up.  let me know if you find it because that sounds 'special'.

In the UK, they did a study of energy expenditure while wearing armor

Short answer: a lot.

sometimes just wearing clothes expends a lot of energy.

[Drunk Monk]

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Underwhelming.