// archives

Media

This category contains 3 articles

Knife Dances

I stopped by Pete Kautz’s website recently; Pete’s site and his buddy James Keating’s, for that matter, are ones you can forget about because they don’t offer news feeds. I saw an article on Traditional Knife Dances Around the World where Pete collected Youtube clips of men performing knife dances from different cultures. There’s easily [...]

Review: Blood in the Cage by Wertheim (2009)

Like any good bout in the sport of mixed martial arts that Wertheim describes so well, this book is fast-paced and entertaining. This is an important work that documents and discusses the phenomenal success of MMA in recent years and will likely become a standard for those new to the sport.

W. C. Heinz

"Your boxing education is lacking," I was told. This came after the recent death of W.C. Heinz, an apparently legendary sportswriter of whom I had never heard. Heinz’s best known work, "Death of a Racehorse," can be found on Google Books and elsewhere on the web, and is one of the best

Free (and legal!) Classic Martial Arts Movies Online

They are free and they are online, but I can’t recommend the site without caveat. LikeTelevision (“only better,” they say) is an online site that offers, among other films, such classics as Yojimbo, Rashomon, the Miyamoto Musashi trilogy, and Street Fighter.
Unfortunately, LikeTelevision is seeking subscribers for its full size high quality versions of films, i.e., [...]