Martial arts multimedia refer to multiple forms of media that are being used to give people access to martial arts entertainment and knowledge. Today, martial arts multimedia mostly encompass the world of electronics wherein combinations of martial arts video, audio, text and images are readily accessible to users via interactive modalities. Although cinema and television remain a large part of martial arts multimedia, video games and computers offer a more interactive adventure to users because they can quickly feel as if they are part of the martial arts world.
– November 14, 2011
Some 400 years ago in Angola, on the west coast of Africa, a form of combat practiced by the natives was beginning to take shape in what we would today call a martial art. Four centuries later, capoeira is practiced in that South American nation known as Brazil. It no
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– November 9, 2011
In their new Japanese martial arts DVD collection, Advanced Samurai Swordsmanship, samurai sword masters Masayuki Shimabukuro and Carl E. Long detail and demonstrate a variety of samurai sword techniques. In this exclusive DVD preview, Long introduces Shimabukuro’s cutting demonstration, or suemono giri. “We’re going to explore the more advanced section
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– September 19, 2011
Black Belt will proudly release the expanded edition of Bruce Lee’s Tao of Jeet Kune Do in October 2011. This redesigned presentation of the classic jeet kune do book will feature an array of enhancements, including translations of Lee’s Chinese script, digital refurbishments of Lee’s original illustrations and sketches, a
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– September 14, 2011
The Combatives for Street Survival Book+DVD Set has been a very successful entry in the ever-expanding Black Belt martial arts multimedia collection. The self-defense content is first-rate, presented by a high-caliber book author and demonstrated on-screen by a dynamic and entertaining modern martial arts instructor. Both the author and presenter
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– August 8, 2011
Take the wisdom from the greatest martial artists and self-defense experts wherever you go with Black Belt ebooks.
Martial arts enthusiasts can now download titles and start reading from the masters instantly. Black Belt ebooks are the portable version of some of its popular titles.
Now martial artists can download these ebooks
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– July 27, 2011
This special martial arts video presentation was designed to celebrate the induction of MIchael Dillard into the 2011 Black Belt Hall of Fame as Man of the Year. This mini-documentary was shown at the 2011 MAIA SuperShow in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 23, 2011, to an audience of hundreds
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– July 5, 2011
In this exclusive video, Julius Melegrito takes you through 10 basic knife strikes from the Philippine martial arts. This kata-like sequence of knife techniques starts slow and builds momentum, culminating in Julius Melegrito executing all 10 moves with lightning-fast speed and catlike precision.
The knife strikes are based partially on the
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– July 5, 2011
Japanese weapons master Masayuki Shimabukuro takes you to the next level of samurai sword mastery in this three-disc samurai DVD set! In Advanced Samurai Swordsmanship, Japanese sword master Masayuki Shimabukuro and his senior student, Carl E. Long, delve deeper into the elegance of body-and-weapon movement that defines personal mastery of
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– July 1, 2011
On March 8, 2007, reality-based self-defense expert Mick Coup visited the offices of Black Belt to be photographed for a feature article in the August 2007 issue. In the article, “Reach Out and Touch Someone,” Mick Coup discusses the role of indexing and how this age-old skill–when properly tuned up
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– June 29, 2011
Would you know what to do if an attacker grabbed your shirt in a bar, at an ATM or on the street? Krav maga expert Alain Cohen shows you a simple yet fiercely effective krav maga counterattack for exactly this situation in this excerpt from his six-DVD krav maga set,
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