MetaFilter posts tagged with kungfu

Goodbye, Mr. Han Man!

bwg — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:38:16 -0800

You probably knew him as the evil drug kingpin, Mr. Han in Enter the Dragon. In Hong Kong he was an action movie legend. Sadly, the amazing Shek Kin, a true martial artist, is dead at 96.

BLACK BELT against BLACK MAGIC

fearfulsymmetry — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:19:01 -0800

The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires combined the tail end of Hammer film's Dracula series with, the then, burgeoning martial arts craze to create "The First Kung Fu Horror Spectacular!" Trailer Posters The whole film on Google video The ending, "You must destroy her!", Chinese Disco (in Spanish) Comic adaptation. Poss NSFW... brief nudity

When you can walk the rice paper en pointe and leave no trace, you will have learned

homunculus — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:01:53 -0800

"Long River High Sky" is a collaborative performance by Alonzo King's Lines Ballet and the monks of the Shaolin Temple USA.

Kung-Fu Bear

homunculus — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:15:17 -0800

Behold Claude, the Kung-Fu Bear. [Via]

Ballistic Jaw Propulsion of Trap-Jaw Ants

dhammond — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:57:21 -0800

The trap-jaw ant, best known for its powerful jaws which hold the land speed record for movement at 145 miles per hour, is brilliantly captured in a short film shot at 100,000 frames per second. [via]

"Fighting is bad." THWACK

BeerFilter — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:35:57 -0800

Child Beater. Part II. YouTubes, from onehitmaster.com. (No children were harmed during the making of these movies.) I saw this linked in a comment by user Drastic and laughed so hard I thought this surely should be FP'd.

Death Takes A Holiday. Sort Of.

bwg — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:45:15 -0800

How To Cope With Death. Fun, short, animated film. If only we could do this with the tax collector.

The old tree gnarls its root.

stinkycheese — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:40:30 -0800

Shaolin [Wiki] is having a difficult time lately. A combination of the silver screen and the small screen cemented the ancient school in most peoples' minds as a surefire way to kick ass most stylishly. Its introduction in the US has since been fraught with problems and complications, most notably in 1992 when a tour of Shaolin Fighting Monks returned to China minus one Shi Yan-Ming - who has since started the USA Shaolin Temple. Then the Chinese government tried starting their own Shaolin-approved schools. But various attempts haven't gone right either. What is the state of Shaolin now? Everyone's trying to make a buck in this game. You can buy anything from Shaolin Secrets in scroll form to the opportunity to "live the life of a warrior monk". Shaolin cachet is at a premium. Its name fame is such it's even ruining things back home. Immigration scams, ballet classes, Lollapalooza, the RZA? Can it get any worse? Now people are even saying one lone ninja can defeat a whole temples' worth of monks!

Gumby Fu

homunculus — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:57:56 -0800

Kung Fu vs. Yoga. In French. (YouTube.)

Only the best teas earn black belts

cubby — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:42:12 -0800

Kung Fu Tea! Welcome to the complex world of fine Chinese teas. Unlike the Japanese Tea Ceremony, Gongfu ceremonies are designed to extract as much flavor from the tea as possible. Using tiny clay teapots to brew several small batches of tea, the leaves are coaxed into releasing all of their flavor. While some these pots are highly prized and collectable pieces of art, the tea itself is the most important element. (more inside)

Those Cats Were Fast As Lightning

fandango_matt — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:34:47 -0800

Real-Life Tekken.

It's An Ancient Chinese Art And Everybody Knew Their Part

fandango_matt — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:32:27 -0800

Kung-Fu F_ck You. Low, medium, and high QuickTime .mov file(s). From The Ministry of Unknown Science.

Kung Fu Science

gramschmidt — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:07:25 -0800

Kung Fu Science: The BBC News article claims that the site "is primarily aimed at 11 to 16-year-olds," but I refuse to let temporal adolescents have a corner on 25-year-old female PhD students doing physics and then breaking wood planks with their hands. [Flash; both the site and the videos take a while to load.]

Toady overlords

of strange foe — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:51:05 -0800

Toads that go bang; toads bang; toads ka-BANG!

I Love The Internet.

hughbot — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:15:30 -0800

A monkey who knows Kung-Fu. (.mpg!)
Dear Internet,
I love You.
From Hugh.

PikerFu.

srboisvert — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:05:51 -0800

British Kung Fu ! // We don't want any of that Jackie Chan Bollocks ! QT - some swearing.

Kung-fu Bunny

dayvin — Fri, 21 May 2004 14:06:32 -0800

Kung-fu Bunny [Silly Flash]

Super Performance!

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:46:21 -0800

Man in Jumping Around Shock [Windows Media]. When spam meets kung fu.

Cavatica — Thu, 14 Jun 2001 05:05:49 -0800

More kung-fu flash madness... this time, with Bruce Lee! Someone managed to attach an image of Lee's head in various expressions to make a somewhat 3d version of the stick fight. Wild. (From Usr/bin/girl)

JDC8 — Sat, 09 Jun 2001 17:31:07 -0800

Do you like watching digital video of beefy kung-fu skirmishes? Do you have a cable modem? Then check out The Kwoon! You can view trailers or full-length episodes, depending on your download speed and your passion for public-access television style pummeling.