- Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Showing posts with label mixed martial arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mixed martial arts. Show all posts
Friday, August 21, 2026
Women fight men: mixed martial arts 🥊
Friday, August 14, 2026
Bruce Lee fights girl? Shaolin kung fu
(Bruce Lee: The Hidden Legacy) Bruce Lee was challenged by a 240-pound Dutch female kickboxing champion | Amsterdam Ring Victory
Shaolin Buddhist monastery kung fu
She tried Shaolin kung fu training for just 24 hours; it broke her
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| How hard could it be? Even pandas can do it! |
Instead, she faced flexibility training, brutal balance drills, sprint intervals, explosive leg exercises, handstands, strength conditioning, and physical challenges designed to push both the body and mind beyond their comfort zone.
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| Shaolin Temple is where we learn to fly. |
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| Discipline, dedication, and monastic rules all help |
From painful flexibility exercises to balancing on narrow wooden posts and navigating stairs upside down, this 24-hour experience reveals why Shaolin training is about far more than flashy kung fu.
This is what happens when an outsider experiences the discipline behind one of the world's most legendary martial arts traditions. #kungfu #martialarts #shaolin #monk #training #power
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Thursday, August 13, 2026
Why Tao Te Ching matters (explained)
The Tao Te Ching explained: The 81 poems that hold everything together
He has decided he has seen enough.
The gatekeeper Yinxi recognizes him. He refuses to let him pass until the old man writes down everything he knows.
So the old man sits down. And in one sitting, he produces 81 short "poems" on bamboo strips in 5,000 characters, no introduction, no conclusion, no table of contents. He hands the bundle to the gatekeeper, climbs back on the buffalo, and disappears into the mountains forever.
That bundle is the Tao Te Ching — the second most translated book in history, behind only the Bible.
Most people treat it like a fortune cookie collection, soft sayings about water and going with the flow, printed on coffee mugs and yoga studio walls.
That interpretation does the book a serious injustice. Lao Tzu was not writing inspirational content for a peaceful audience. He was writing a survival guide for people whose world was burning down around them — and he buried it inside 81 poems that look simple on the surface but operate like a precision instrument underneath.
This video reads the Tao Te Ching the way it was meant to be read: as a two-stage operating system for being human. The first 37 chapters reset our relationship with reality. The next 44 reset our behavior inside it.
Timestamps
- 00:00 - The old man at the gate
- 01:10 - Why this book was written in a burning world
- 02:05 - What Tao, te, and ching actually mean
- 03:00 - The two-stage structure of the 81 chapters
- 03:55 - Chapter 1: Why the Tao cannot be named
- 05:10 - Chapter 8: Water and the nature of real power
- 06:15 - Chapter 11: the philosophy of emptiness
- 07:10 - Wu wei: doing without forcing [non-interference]
- 08:20 - Chapter 33: wisdom vs. intelligence, power vs. strength
- 09:00 - Chapter 17: the leader nobody remembers
- 09:45 - Chapter 64: the thousand-mile warning
- 10:50 - Why the book changes every time we change
- 12:00 - What the Tao Te Ching was really built to do
What's covered in this video
- The legendary story of Lao Tzu, the gatekeeper Yinxi, and the writing of the Tao Te Ching — and why this book was born in one of the most violent eras in Chinese history.
- What the three words of the title actually mean: Tao (The Way), Te (inner power aligned with the Tao), and Ching (sacred text) — and why most people who quote this book have never understood the title.
- Why Lao Tzu opens Chapter 1 by warning that the most important thing in his book cannot be named — and what that does to the categorizing, label-making human mind.
- The water metaphor in Chapter 8: Why real power does not look like power and how the softest substance on earth (water) shapes the hardest over time.
- Chapter 11 and the philosophy of emptiness: Why the hole in the wheel, the space in the pot, and the empty room in the house are the things actually doing the work.
- Wu wei – the most mistranslated concept in the book: Why it does not mean "doing nothing" but rather doing without forcing, acting with the grain of reality instead of against it.
- Chapter 33 and the distinction between intelligence and wisdom, between strength and true power.
- Chapter 17 and Lao Tzu's model of the greatest leader: the one whose people say, "We did this ourselves!"
- Chapter 64 and the real meaning of "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" — and why it is as much a warning as an encouragement.
- Why this book reads differently at age 20 than at 40, differently in success than in crisis — and why that is exactly what it was designed to do.
How this was made: made with AI - sounds or visuals were altered or fully generated. Learn more
- The East Made Simple, 7/14/26; CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Bruce Lee Thai boxing with a woman
Bruce Lee challenged by Thai female kickboxer undefeated 1971 — Bangkok match
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| I can prevail with just one well placed strike. |
"Come to Bangkok. Fight me. Or admit you fear women."
Bruce Lee read the challenge. Hong Kong. Filming Fist of Fury. He never fought woman before, never fought a perfect record, but he refused to decline the offer.
"She's undefeated champion. She deserves respect. She deserves fight."
He accepted. "Bangkok. November 15. Traditional Muay Thai rules. Five rounds. No cameras. No publicity. Just two martial artists."
Muay Thai or Muaythai (Thai มวยไทย, RTGS muai thai) is sometimes referred to as Thai boxing, the Art of Eight Limbs [5], or the Science of Eight Limbs [6]. It is a Thai martial art and full-contact combat sport that uses stand-up striking, sweeps, and clinching techniques [7]. The name "Art of Eight Limbs" refers to the combined use of two fists, two elbows, two knees, and two shins [8].Muay Thai with boxer and farang - Muay Thai went international in the late 20th-21st century, when Westernized practitioners from Thailand began competing in kickboxing, mixed-rules matches, and matches under Muay Thai rules around the world. The professional league is governed by the Professional Boxing Association of Thailand, sanctioned by the Sports Authority of Thailand.
Muay Thai is related to martial art styles of India's cultural sphere: Musti-yuddha [9, 10], Muay Chaiya, Muay Boran, Muay Lao, Lethwei, Kun Khmer, Benjang [11], and Tomoi [12].Thai fighters wearing mongkhon - Muay Thai practitioners are known as Nak Muay. Western practitioners are sometimes called Nak Muay Farang, meaning "foreign boxer" [13].
- Muay Thai etymology: The Thai language term Muay Thai [14] that is a compound word made up of muay and Thai, the first derived from the Sanskrit root word [15] mavya [16], which means "to pull together," "to form into a single group or unit," or "unity" [16], defined as "to tie" [17] and "sport boxing" [18] in Thai. The alternative form of the Sanskrit word mavya is mavy (mavyati, Sanskrit मव्य् (मव्यति, lit. "to bind, to tie, to fasten") from its root term mav [19, 20] (Sanskrit मव). "Thai" comes from the word Tai [15], which means "free" [21] and "Tai-Kadai speakers " [Note 1]. More
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| Black implies white. White implies black. Swirling |
She cut her hair, wrapped her chest to bind her bosom, and nobody knew for three years. Then one sparring session at age 11, fighting a 16-year-old boy, he hit her too hard and split her lip. She attacked, knee to body, elbow to face.
The Boy went down. The coach discovered her secret, "You're a girl?" She expected to be banned. The coach smiled, "You fight better than any boy. Stay. Become a champion."
By age 25, she was a legend. Men refused to fight her. They were too scared. "What if I lose to a woman?" She laughed. "You will lose. Question is how long you last."
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| I am water, I am void, I pivot to evade strikes. |
The bell rang.
Somrak attacked, low kick. Bruce checked it. She threw a combination. He slipped. She threw an elbow. He ducked. He countered. A backfist grazed her cheek. This was a real fight, five rounds. Both gave everything they had.
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| I make martial arts films. |
By Round 5, both were bloody. Bruce's eyebrow was cut. Somrak lip was split. They were still fighting, still trading strikes, no defense, just pure warrior spirit. The bell rang.
Silence. Then both bowed simultaneously, smiling.
The referee raised both hands. It was a draw by unanimous decision. It had been 48 fights, and she was still undefeated. Both remained undefeated. Nobody lost. Both won.
They hugged, "You are a real martial artist," Somrak said. "Gender doesn't matter, only heart."
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| I wish I'd eaten better and lived. |
Bruce gave her a Wing Chun ring.
November 15, 1971, Bangkok, five rounds, one draw, two champions. One lesson: Respect transcends gender because heart determines warrior.
- BRUCE LEE ☯️ MANIA, 1971; Bruce Lee: The Hidden Legacy, Jan 17, 2026; CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Kiho, Rayna V, why do girls have to fight?
"Kill or be killed?"
Supermodel, actress, World Champ Rayna V
- The woman faster than Bruce Lee
- This girl is faster than Bruce Lee 🥋
- Rayna Vallandingham (@raynavallandingham)
- Beauty and Brains with Rayna Vallandingham
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- Rayna Vallandingham's evolution from 2013-2024
- The most punk rock girl in the world?
- PUNCH KLUB: Never disrespect Mona Kimura
Why are crazy girls going wild?
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Thursday, August 6, 2026
Girl Fight: Japan's Buddhist beauty
(The Bandaid Battalion MMA)
(Boxing Game) Buddhism in Japan is covered below. But holy cow, it's the animated Chun-Li in real life! Doll Mona Kimura knocks out everyone because she kicks when she does her martial arts in the ring against opponents who walk right into her foot again and again.
Kimura started training in karate at age 4 and won seven consecutive JKJO All Japan Junior Karate Championships then started boxing in 4th grade [5, 6, 7]. In 2019 she won the JBC Junior Featherweight Championship... Does she love Bruce Lee or even know who he was? Is she into kung fu like the great [not an actual monastery-trained] Shaolin master Yi Long? She must at least know the who the great martial artists who preceded her are. More
Buddhism was first established in Japan in the 6th century CE [3, 4, 5]. Most of Japanese Buddhists belong to new schools of Buddhism that were established in the Kamakura period (1185–1333) [6]. During the Edo period (1603–1868), Buddhism was controlled by the feudal Shogunate.
The largest sects of Japanese Buddhism are Pure Land Buddhism with 22 million followers, followed by Nichiren Buddhism with 10 million believers, Shingon Buddhism with 5.4 million, Zen Buddhism with 5.3 million, Tendai Buddhism with 2.8 million, and about 700,000 for the six old schools established in the Nara period (710–794) [6]. More:
(Behind the Knockout) Mona Kimura, Dakota Ditcheva: finishes that put opponents in hospitals
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| Yi Long does it again using his kung fu skills |
Mona Kimura (Japanese 木村 萌那, Kimura Mona, born April 12, 2001) is a Japanese kickboxer and former amateur boxer who is currently signed to K-1. She represented Japan at 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships [2, 3, 4].
Early career
Who, me, a pretty "girlie doll"? We'll see when we get in the ring.
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| Japanese Buddhist flag flys over Japan |
Buddhism in Japan
Edo (江戸, lit. "Bay-entrance," Romanized as Jedo, Yedo, Yeddo) is the former name of Tokyo. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, Edo developed into a major early-modern urban center with a population that is believed to have exceeded 1 million by the early 18th century — making it, by many estimates, the largest city in the world at the time. More: Edo (Edo period)Beautiful Buddhist Tokyo, Japan (Mt. Fuji) - Japanese Zen meditation with Chloe in Edo (1657)
The Buddhist beauty of ancient Japan
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| The Great Buddha (Amida, Amitabha) (Daibutsu) at Kōtoku-in, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan (National Treasure) Le Grand Bouddha du Kotoku-in (Kamakura, Japon) |
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| Daruma doll Indian Bodhidharma |
The Meiji period (1868–1912) saw a strong response against Buddhism, with persecution and a forced separation between Buddhism and the indigenous shapeshifter (kami) tradition called Shinto (Shinbutsu bunri).
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| Vowz Band 坊主バンド rock to spread Zen |
Japan at a Crossroads | BBC
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Bruce Lee beats John Wayne's big bodyguard
John Wayne’s 350 lb. bodyguard attacked Bruce Lee — then watched him get crushed
Future of kung fu: robots?
Who? "John Wayne was a Nazi"
(M.D.C., Millions of Dead Cops) Who's famous TV cowboy John Wayne?
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| Kids with Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, 1948 |
The 350-pound bodyguard thought size, strength, and Western military experience guaranteed him victory. What Bruce did next shocked everyone in the room — including "The [Grand] Duke."
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| Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do: The "Stop Fist Way" |
For decades, this quiet backstage confrontation between Bruce Lee and John Wayne’s bodyguard stayed out of the spotlight. Now, the full story of how a 350-pound former Marine was taken down — twice — can finally be told.
#johnwayne #brucelee #truestory #hollywood #martialarts #behindthescenes. How this was made: AI
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Jackie Chan on Bruce Lee, Steven Seagal
Who's Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker? (Rush Hour)
I will kick your @ss right here, Chinaman!
Steven Frederic Seagal (April 10, 1952) is a Jewish American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, musician [2], and possibly a Russian national who is a personal friend of Pres. Vlad Putin. A 7th-dan black belt and shihan in Aikikai aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan, where he became the first non-Japanese and American to operate an aikido dojo [3, 4, 5]. He later moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, where he continued teaching aikido. In 1988, Seagal made his acting debut in Above the Law, which is regarded as the first American film to feature aikido in fight sequences [6]. More
(Bruce Lee Eternal) "You're an actor, not a real fighter" - Steven Seagal mocked Bruce Lee on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show on LIVE television or pure AI slop?
This cat right here is Matt Ricard
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| This is not a dyed toupee, OK? |
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| You're a good boy, Steven. You should move to our Jewish Autonomous Oblast. - May I? |
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