On October 2015, Al Jazeera released a wonderful documentary covering the life of Mr. Gusein and Olga Magomaev/a and their Five Directions of the World Martial Arts School. At one point in the documentary following Mr. Magomaev’s concerns for his pupils due to the raise of Islamic terrorism, the footage switches to a fire that […]
Category: Film
An Interview with Ma Yue
An interesting perspective from one of the son’s of the original Ma family siblings. Ma Yue son of the late Ma Xianda (1932 – 2013) a respected and influential martial arts teacher. Ma Xianda was interviewed by the Kung Fu Taichi Magazine in 2002 where he discussed about his life and the state of Chinese martial arts […]
Lego World War 2: Second Sino-Japanese War
While I settle down and organize my notes after my two weeks trip to China, I found a short film depicting some of the major events of the Chinese War of Resistance. What is interesting is that the whole project was done using LEGO pieces. Despite the use of a children’s favorite the images shown […]