Criss Angel

Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I'm not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don't think I follow any discipline traditionally.

American Entertainer

Lyoto Machida

My father was a very tough guy with me and my brothers. He wanted to teach us a lot of discipline and life philosophy. As I became more interested in martial arts, he started teaching a lot of fighting philosophy and karate philosophy. While he was a tough father, he also knew when to be sweet and show a softer side.

Brazilian Athlete

Chris Weidman

The thing about mixed martial arts is you have to know every single martial art in the world or you're at a disadvantage. So, there's so much to learn. I have to know wrestling. I have to know kick boxing. I have to know boxing. I have to know karate.

American Athlete

Chael Sonnen

Wrestlers tend to do good in MMA because they tend to be just some tough guys. It's not a karate situation where they grew up their whole life punching the air; in a wrestling situation, you grab a hold of another human being every day.

Lily Aldridge

When my daughter Dixie gets out of school, I take her to ballet, soccer, or karate. Or if it's a free afternoon, we might bake together. I love our time together. There is nothing more important in my life than making her happy.

American Model

Moa Kikuchi

I was told that karate has a courtesy: 'Start with a bow and end with a bow.' This is something important we value in our lives, because we never forget courtesy and a feeling of gratitude wherever we go.

Japanese Musician

Chuck Norris

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

American Actor

Anne-Marie

People never believe it when they find out I'm a karate world champion. They don't see me as the type because I'm small and blonde.

British Musician

Ashley Bell

I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.

American Actress

Kristin Kreuk

I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.

Canadian Actress

Karate originated from Japan, and it's a word that reflects Japanese culture.

Japanese Origin

Karate is recognized internationally and practiced in many countries around the world.

Global Sport

Karate involves physical exercise and is often referred to as a way to stay fit.

Physical Activity

 and consisted of the hardest physical moves on the whole long pulls between poor handholds with very small, slippery feet. This is what I mean by a poor an edge smaller than the width of a pencil but facing downward that I had to press up into with my thumb. But that wasn't even the hardest part. The crux culminated in a karate kick

How I climbed a...

 But then one out of the three good-for-nothings gets it to the head -- pow! And number two swings blindly into the dark cape before him, but before his fist hits anything, I grab a trash can lid and -- right in the gut! And number one comes back with the jump kick, but I know judo karate, too, so I'm like --

My journey from Marine...

 one on top of another, with each picture representing an influence in my life. Or what if, instead of painting with a brush, I could only paint with karate chops? So I'd dip my hands in paint, and I just attacked the canvas, and I actually hit so hard that I bruised a joint in my pinkie

Embrace the Shake PIPE Phil...

 From there, I was sent to another small room with a really nice lady who asked me all kinds of questions about my life at home. I saw no reason to lie. As far as I was concerned, life was pretty good. I told her, whenever I'm sad, my grandmother gives me karate chops.

"To This Day" ... for...

 That was the great eureka moment. Now, not being able to see meant, of course, that you taught yourself. Derek I taught myself to play. You did teach yourself to play, and as a consequence, playing the piano for you, Derek, was a lot of knuckles and karate chops,

Derek Paravicini and...

 a word for retirement. Instead there is one word that imbues your entire life, and that word is "ikigai." And, roughly translated, it means "the reason for which you wake up in the morning." For this 102-year-old karate master,

Dan Buettner: How to...

 themselves against the Orca. The way the Orca hunt the Sevengills is pretty impressive. First of all, they'll come in and they'll karate chop the shark. So they'll just come and lift their tail up and whack them on the back.

Orca Hunt Seven Gill...

 aerodynamically they are the incredible contortionist this is like karate in the air and what they do to hyper streamline and then when they achieve highest speeds how they hold it blew this away

High-Velocity Falcon PIPE...

 Then they could get promoted through four increasingly elite fuke, ke, fuchu, and chu. Now these are not moves from "Karate Kid," okay? It's serious business. The range of positions is wide,

Eric X. Li: A tale of...

 learned faster than almost any human I have ever taught come on Charlie let's eat but Charlie the karate chimp has

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