Advertisement
Advertisement
Martial Arts /

Other Martial Arts

Related Topics:
Kickboxing
Muay Thai
Jiu-jitsu
Lethwei
Taekwondo
Lone’er Kavanagh (left), who has a Hong Kong mother, beat Mexico’s Brandon Moreno in a flyweight bout on UFC Fight Night in Mexico City last month. Photo: Zulla LLC
Ultimate Fighting Championship

MMA fighter with Hong Kong roots wants ‘home’ fight, make film with Jackie Chan

Fresh from a win over an ex-UFC champion, No 6-ranked Lone’er Kavanagh says he wants ‘to get to the top as quickly as possible’.

Ukraine war

Judo to allow Russian athletes to compete under national flag again

2025 National Games

Hong Kong wushu star Sham says National Games could be harder than world event

Hong Kong sports

Grace Lau’s ‘stand-out performance’ gold at World Games also fulfilled a vow

Karateka made a promise to her grandmother and delivered on it in Chengdu to win Hong Kong’s first medal.

Grace Lau on her way to a gold medal in the women’s kata event at the World Games in Chengdu. Photo: World Karate Federation
Grace Lau on her way to a gold medal in the women’s kata event at the World Games in Chengdu. Photo: World Karate Federation
Ultimate Fighting Championship

MMA star Zhang confident of UFC’s China future as first post-Covid event announced

First Chinese fighter to win a UFC title is ‘really looking forward’ to Shanghai Fight Night, one of two back-to-back events in August.

Chinese culture

Martial artists honouring Bruce Lee teacher on their love of wing chun

More than 100 martial artists from around the world gathered in Hong Kong at an event dedicated to Wong Shun-leung, student of Ip Man.

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Wrestling

Sumo makes historic return to London’s Royal Albert Hall after 34 years

The five-day event, or ‘basho’, has been held only once before outside Japan – back in 1991 and also at the venerable concert hall.

Sumo wrestler Daisuke Kitanowaka makes a stand outside London’s Royal Albert Hall, which will host a “basho” for the second time next year. Photo: AP
Sumo wrestler Daisuke Kitanowaka makes a stand outside London’s Royal Albert Hall, which will host a “basho” for the second time next year. Photo: AP
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Taekwondo star Abu Taleb goes from fighting boys to making Saudi Olympic history

The 27-year-old has become the first Saudi woman to qualify for the Olympics and is dreaming of bringing home the Gulf kingdom’s first gold medal.

videocam
Wellness

Tone up, work out, drop off: how regular exercise puts end to insomnia

Trail running and taking up martial arts reduced insomnia and anxiety for Hong Kong corporate communications worker Michelle Sum. Regular exercise was also shown to reduce insomnia in a recent study.

Jiu-jitsu

Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter carries Hong Kong hopes at Pan American Championship

Rodrigo Caporal is targeting gold at this month’s championship, then will have a tilt at global domination, joined by fighters from his Hong Kong gym.

Nosherwan Khanzada (top) demonstrates during a class at his gym in Sheung Wan. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
American cinema

What killed Bruce Lee? 4 leading theories advanced after his death 50 years ago

Bruce Lee’s death in 1973 was put down to brain swelling, but there was always doubt as to what exactly killed the martial arts actor. We recall four leading theories advanced in the years since he died.

videocam
Bruce Lee on the set of “The Big Boss”. Lee died two years after the movie’s 1971 release, and in the years since, competing theories have been posited as to what exactly killed the martial arts star. Photo: Yau Leung
Bruce Lee on the set of “The Big Boss”. Lee died two years after the movie’s 1971 release, and in the years since, competing theories have been posited as to what exactly killed the martial arts star. Photo: Yau Leung
Hong Kong Sports Institute

Hong Kong’s wushu athletes target medal glory at World Games

City has sent 4 athletes to compete in the martial art, with teen Michelle Yeung taking part in her first adult event.

Asian Games 2023

Covid-19 forces Hong Kong wushu athletes to compete online for Asian Games spots

Hong Kong Sports Institute goes into lockdown, trapping officials outside complex and forcing them to stage virtual selection competition ahead of September’s event in Hangzhou.

Martial arts

Why Mongolians dominate sumo, Japan’s national sport

The emergence of Mongolian wrestlers, with new techniques, skills and philosophy, and a dearth of home-grown talent, has created a new era for the sport.

Komusubi Terunofuji prepares for his bout against Shimanoumi on day fourteen of the Grand Sumo November Tournament in Tokyo in 2020. Photo: Getty Images
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Being a stunt double for Bruce Lee made Jackie Chan want to be a star

Martial arts star Jackie Chan, in a previously unpublished 1997 Post interview, reveals how seeing himself in Bruce Lee film Fist of Fury made him realise ‘I wanted to be a star myself’.

Jackie Chan became Bruce Lee’s favourite stuntman while making Enter the Dragon. Chan first worked for Bruce Lee on Fist of Fury, and reveals that that made him want to be a star, not just a stunt double. Photo: Golden Harvest
Jackie Chan became Bruce Lee’s favourite stuntman while making Enter the Dragon. Chan first worked for Bruce Lee on Fist of Fury, and reveals that that made him want to be a star, not just a stunt double. Photo: Golden Harvest
Wellness

Why athletes wear out their hips in midlife, and the benefits of surgery

Playing sport intensively, especially as a teenager or young adult, causes excessive wear on the hips and can trigger osteoarthritis, which may require hip resurfacing.

Profile

Profile | How Brazilian martial art capoeira changed Eddy Murphy’s life

The Brazilian capoeira master, whose real name is Edilson Almeida, tells Ed Peters about growing up poor in São Paulo, teaching the martial art in China and the life lessons he’s learned.

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Martial arts

BKFC 17: refugee Kakar stuns Chris Sarro in 33 seconds on US debut

The 29-year-old says it was his last chance to make an impact after waiting seven years in a refugee camp before arriving in the US in June 2020.

videocam
Ezatullah Kakar catches Chris Sarro with a left during their BKFC 17 cruiserweight fight in Birmingham, Alabama. Photos: BKFC
Ezatullah Kakar catches Chris Sarro with a left during their BKFC 17 cruiserweight fight in Birmingham, Alabama. Photos: BKFC
MMA

Why Indian-Hongkonger Lulla ‘couldn’t imagine life without fighting’

The 22-year-old Rehaan Lulla, who overpowered his opponent in a KF1 Muay Thai event in Tai Po, trains through university studies, a pandemic and a lack of attention in the local combat sports scene.

Anti-Asian racism

US karate champ Kokumai told to ‘go home’ in anti-Asian rant

Japanese-American, who will represent Team USA at Tokyo 2020, racially abused as she trained in California park.

videocam
9
Fame and celebrity

‘I always felt different’: actors, model talk about growing up Eurasian

From Crazy Rich Asians actor Henry Golding to model turned Muay Thai fighter Mia Kang, Eurasian celebrities struggled with bullying and their identity in childhood, but now find themselves celebrated for their diversity.

15
Model Mia Kang.
Muay Thai

‘Muay Thai is all I’ve ever done’ – McGowan’s Singaporean crossroads

From Luton Town to Bangkok, the 25-year-old Dan McGowan describes the harsh realities of an all-or-nothing Muay Thai fighter as he starts as Evolve MMA coach.

videocam
English martial artist Dan McGowan is the first non-Thai Muay Thai trainer at Evolve MMA, Singapore. Photo: Evolve MMA
English martial artist Dan McGowan is the first non-Thai Muay Thai trainer at Evolve MMA, Singapore. Photo: Evolve MMA
Martial arts

Chinese-born teen black belt Gundrum is ‘perfect storm’ for jiu-jitsu

‘The Silent Assassin’ trains under Eddie Bravo’s 10th Planet system and has already beaten multiple world champions.

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee at 80: the martial arts legend and his legacy

Bruce Lee would have turned 80 on Friday had he lived. We gauge the influence of the jeet kune do fighting technique the martial arts superstar developed, with its ‘be water’ philosophy.

Wellness

Tai chi meets yoga for chronic pain and healing class

Vietnamese-born, Austria-raised Ella Tham has created a fusion between a traditional martial art and a traditional fitness discipline.

videocam
Ella Tham has combined tai chi and yoga for a new form of therapeutic exercise. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Help preserve 120 years of quality journalism.
SUPPORT NOW