What better way for Sir Menzies Campbell to prove he can succeed where other Lib Dems have failed, than by getting rid of the fly using martial arts techniques of the type seen by the wise mentors in films such as the Karate Kid and Kung Fu...
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But at least one poster saw some logic in the IOC's popularity reasoning, and pointed at mixed martial arts, the combination of boxing, wrestling and martial arts that is drawing legions of new fans.
Mixed martial arts fighting is popular with the 18-to-34 demographic, said Roy Englebrecht, the founder of the Professional Mixed Martial Arts League, a minor league in California.
Now comes the big test to determine the type of ratings that Bellator MMA will receive as it shifts from MTV2 to Spike TV, the home of Mixed Martial Arts.
Jason needed to burn off his excess adrenaline and we chose the discipline of martial arts to help him channel his energy.
Then there's the onrushing wave of Mixed Martial Arts, which Everlast has been smart enough to embrace rather than resist.
Many credit Bartitsu's resurgence to Tony Wolf, a New Zealand-born martial-arts instructor who brought together its early supporters by posting archival materials on his website, the Electronic Journals of Martial Arts and Sciences, as far back as 2001.
Amazing as this may sound, Blitz is the finest arcade game since Street Fighter 2, the Capcom martial arts game that touched off the wave of fighting games and that still dominates most video game arcades.
He says there has not been enough study of mixed martial arts to describe the risks.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a mix of several martial arts and emphasises the use of joint-locks and chokeholds.
It is fueled by images that fill the childhoods of most urban Asian-Americans: photos of martial arts icon Bruce Lee, sumo wrestlers and Japanese cartoon characters -- all of it, on the inside pages, in not very chic black and white.
And his branch of martial arts, which was also redacted in the initial release, is not kick boxing.
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Classification issues: martial arts, weaponry, specifically the use of chain sticks.
The International Fight League, for example, consists of 12 mixed martial arts teams.
According to an FBI affidavit made public Tuesday, agents saw Dutschke the day before Curtis' release hauling items out of his former martial arts studio in Tupelo, Miss.
The Fertittas say it is this rule, and the fighter's ability to quit at any time, that makes mixed martial arts safer than boxing because it limits the number of blows a fighter takes.
NeuLion now provides similar services for other professional sports leagues, including the NFL and NBA. A recent partnership with the UFC lets mixed-martial arts fans purchase a series of fights to watch with more camera angles, audio feeds, and interactive options than they could otherwise.
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Among the most successful recent arrivals is mixed martial arts, a combination of boxing and ju-jitsu.
Andres Ayala, a Connecticut Democrat who is a co-sponsor of the bill, said a dispute in Nevada shouldn't block mixed-martial arts in Connecticut.
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Granted, the tale of the aristocratic Jen (played by Zhang Ziyi), her tangles with martial-arts masters Li Mubai (Chow Yun Fat) and Yu Shulien (Michelle Yeoh, fresh from her recent successful turn as a Bond girl), and her torrid romance with rough-hewn Lo (Chang Chen) is not that gripping.
Drawing on the meditative traditions of Buddhism and Taoism, combined with deep-breathing and martial-arts exercises, it may seem somewhat cranky to non-adherents, and no doubt it has attracted its share of charlatans and crooks.
On the face of it, it seems odd then that Lee would want to make a martial-arts picture.
Mixed martial arts has its detractors, among them Stephen Acunto, a longtime member of the New York State Athletic Commission.
This includes the forthcoming WoW Mists of Pandaria expansion pack, which introduces a new continent populated by martial-arts-skilled pandas and their pets.
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"The Raid" from Indonesia combines SWAT-team-versus-gangster slaughter with a discipline of martial arts called silat.
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Coming after a long, slow narrative slog, it's the first of a few stunningly staged combat interludes that borrow freely, and successfully, from Asia's martial-arts extravaganzas.
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