Bak lukkede døre på et tilsyneladende helt almindeligt amerikansk college bliver der lagt planer for det ultimative opgør inden for undergrounds-MMA. Den forhenværende MMA-stjerne Case Walker træner fire unge kæmpere, som alle har deres egne problemer at slås med. Case vil lære dem at mestre de utroligste kampteknikker og gøre dem klar til at kæmpe mod hinanden i den mest hårdtslående konkurrence, der nogensinde er blevet udtænkt: The Beatdown.
Med italienske forfædre og sin New Jersey-dialekt har Daniel svært ved at få anerkendelse fra sine jævnaldrende, efter at han er flyttet til Californien med sin mor. Og da eleverne fra den lokale karateskole vælger ham som yndlingsoffer ser det sort ud. Heldigvis får Daniel hjælp af gartneren Miyagi, der viser sig også at være en habil karatetræner.
Om en ung karateekspert der forsøger at nå et niveau, kaldet "Den sidste drage", i kampteknik hvor intet er umuligt. Samtidig hjælper han en smuk pige ud af faretruende situationer og forelsker sig i hende.
Daniel vil forsvare sin titel fra turneringen, hvor han og Miyagi sidste år ydmygede træner Kreese og hans elever. Men denne gang vil Miyagi ikke hjælpe, så Daniel søger træning hos barske Terry, der i virkeligheden arbejder for Kreese og vil nedbryde Daniels moral og fysik. Da sagens sammenhæng bliver klar for Miyagi, vil han alligevel gerne hjælpe.
Jake, a New York policeman poses as an actor to expose the making of martial-arts death movies in Thailand.
An otherwise rejected or ignored boy creates a fantasy pal from his martial arts movie hero.
Akane is the youngest of three daughters for Soun Tendo. Her father Soun Tendo runs a dojo for martial arts. Akane hopes to carry on her father's dojo into the distant future. Meanwhile, Akane has been selected to marry Ranma, the son of her father's long time friend Genma. Akane and Ranma's relationship has developed into a love and hate relationship. Also, Ranma isn't your typical boy. While on a training journey Ranma fell into the Spring of the Drowned Girl and now changes into a women whenever cold water is splashed on him. Warm water will allow him to revert back to a male. Problems arise when Akane's father declares that the successor to their dojo must be a male. Now, Akane and Ranma (being a man only half of the time) must find a secret spring that can cure him of his curse.
Hu Te et al. escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the south away from the Qings, and also identify the traitor who sold out Shaolin temple. Ma Fu Yi, joins the Qing top fighters to eliminate the rebels but is exposed by Ma Chao-Tsing who gets captured by Ma Fu Yi. Hu meets up with a group of Shaolin men secretly posing as bandits to rescue Ma as their leader is killed in the process, thus the bandits join the rest of the Shaolin patriots.
Set at the time of Italian explorer Marco Polo's historic expedition to China ,during the reign of Monogol ruler Kublai Khan, it stars American actor Richard Harrison as Polo. Taking considerable liberties with the historic record, the film has Polo turning up as an Imperial Inspector assigned to root out Chinese rebles in the south, but eventually being won over to their cause.
Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a drunken bar brawl; a rich man named Le Braque bails him out and asks him to fight for him.
A young kenpo karate martial artist returns home after ten years in reform school on a quest to find out who murdered his father. He is befriended by an old monk and a local Irish beauty. His search takes him to the prestigious Bealtaine Martial Arts Tournament. Together with his past, the good guy is drawn into conflict with the local drug baron and his son, and the conflict makes the young man face his father's death in a way he could never have imagined.
Although injured, a martial-arts expert teaches an orphan his methods.
A 1970s documentary that highlights various martial arts fighting styles and features African American martial arts master Ron Van Clief aka "Black Dragon."
The documentary project follows the young students of a small daoist kung fu school in Wudang, China. The documentary focuses on their daily life and training, and the viewer also gets to join them on their performance trips.
Tofiq and his father watch Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, and because of their differences they get into a debate; to settle it, they decide to have a showdown. Tofiq loses and, because of it, is forced to leave their house and go into the city. There he encounters someone else and they start having beef, and this goes on until the end of the movie.
Two chickens start a new chapter in their lives by learning a mysterious martial art. As they train, it is obvious they don't exactly fit in until evil weasels threaten the chickens' way of life, and the town has to band together to defeat them.
Director Miho Niikura examines the modern practice of tee (Okinawan karate), and its attractiveness to Westerners—some of whom travel thousands of miles to study the venerable martial art in its birthplace, Okinawa.
Let the sun shine in! Ramel Rones gently guides you through the morning with a series of powerful mind/body exercises that awaken the senses, stimulate the mind, and fill your body and spirit with abundant energy. This simplified, short t'ai chi ch'uan sequence is practiced to both the left and right for balance. This video is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to tai chi. Rones also offers suggestions to intermediate and advanced students.
Learn the ancient and noble art of fighting with the long- or "hand-and-a-half" sword according to the teachings of the medieval fencing master Johannes Liechtenauer! Reconstructed from 14th - 16th c manuscripts and illuminations, the highly effective fighting techniques and principles of this elegant and deadly martial art are now available for everyone. A valuable treasure trove for everyone interested in historical swordsmanship, by respected martial artists Hans Heim and Alex Kiermayer.