Not sure what round this clip is from, but Buakaw looks like he’s pretty much owning things there. Buakaw won the fight by decision. Why the hell is there blaring pop music going on during the fight? I really hope they get rid of that habit before MMA blows up there.
Brian Lam, the proprieter and editorial director of the gadget blog Gizmodo has a great article up on BoingBoing about martial arts. If you didn’t know, Brian used to train and teach at Fairtex in San Francisco before blowing up in the gadget blog world. The article discusses Brian’s experience training there, the therapeutic qualities of practicing martial arts, and the fateful day that gym owner Alex Gong was murdered.
The article is framed with the controversy surrounding the title of Jackie Chan’s remake of “The Karate Kid”. The remake keeps the name of the original film despite the fact that it features kung fu rather than karate.
The star of Ong Bak Tony Jaa has reportedly become a Buddhist monk. It’s fairly common in Thailand for men to go monastic for brief periods then return to a secular life afterwards. Think of it like a vacation from real life during which time you don’t have to wear underwear. This might be just what the actor/director needs after a tumultuous production of Ong Bak 2.
From Twitch:
The initial footage from that film looked fantastic but it didn’t take long for strange stories to emerge from the set – stories of Jaa sacrificing chickens before shooting for the day could commence – and things rapidly fell behind schedule and way over budget. And then, with pressure mounting and debts adding up, Jaa simply crumbled under the pressure and disappeared.
If you’ve never seen Ong Bak, you’re missing out on one of the greatest martial arts flicks of the decade. Tony Jaa brings it with mind-blowing stunts, unprecedented athleticism, and fight work that would make Bruce himself go: daaaaaayum! The work that Jaa is doing has elevated martial arts movie-making the same way the Hong Kong kung fu flicks did in the early 90′s.
Jaa’s second film Tom Yum Goong features the greatest single-shot (no cuts) fight sequences of all time. In it, Jaa fights his way up several floors of a building… aaah easier to just show you:
Yeeeeaaaaahhh… breakin’ limbs and takin’ names.
Ong Bak and Tom Yum Goong are easily top 10 martial arts movies to own for me. Are they available on blu-ray, you ask? Of course! Tom Yum Goong was released stateside as The Protector
Hopefully Jaa will be right again after his time at Club Monk. Hopefully he’s learned from his past experiences and will continue to do his fans right with more movies.
They say the best technique to have is cardio. Conversely, your worst technique is to lack cardio. 
Well, the good news is that AdapTx Labs has put out the first and only supplement designed to improve it.
The company was started by David Nader, M.S., MBA in 2007. Their medical advisor is Dr. J.P. Saleeby, and his expertise in what they call adaptogens seems to be the key behind how CardioFactor works. Adaptogens are natural substances that cause the body to better resist stress and fatigue. Despite its scientific-sounding name, adaptogens are more the domain of herbalists than scientists but Dr. Saleeby has done extensive modern study on them. The herbs have been in use for centuries in other countries as qi tonics or restoratives.
To be honest, I was very skeptical about this at first. There are a lot of scary products in the wild west of sports supplements. I began digging into their site and looking into the science behind the product. By comparison, AdapTx Labs’ technical documentation and background is miles beyond most other supplement companies – even big companies like Cytosport. So I decided to give it a whirl for a couple of weeks.
