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One of his first movies, a real breakthrough movie, was Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow. During this movie he didn’t quite avoid a sword which should have been blunted. The result was a spray of real blood, and the screams you hear are of his actual pain.
In Police Story he was nearly paralyzed by a tremendous fall. He slid down a pole in one scene, exploding lights and ripping electrical wires and falling through a glass cover. In this scene he broke the seventh and eighth vertebra in his spine, and dislocated his pelvis.
During the filming of Crime Story Jackie had a scene in which he was caught between two cars which were crashing together. Either his timing, or the drivers’ timing was not quite what it should have been. The sequence resulted in one Jackie Chan stunt, and a star with two crushed legs.
He has injured his knees more times than he can count, and doubts that he has much cartilage left in them. One of the worst knee injuries he ever suffered was during, of all things, a skateboard scene. The film was City Hunter.
How did Jackie Chan train when learning martial arts?
One piece of Jackie Chan’s biography struck a chord: As a kid, Jackie Chan had to balance on one foot for an hour at a time…
Would you like to know the alternate exercise my martial-arts students practice?
In the past, I have forced my students to practice balancing on bowling balls. (Yes, you read that correctly.) One criteria for progressing to the next level in my system was to be able to punch
100 times while balancing on a bowling ball. Every student managed to learn the task — with some coaching from me.
With both balancing on one foot for such an extending time and learning to punch so long on a bowling ball, you are ‘over-training.’ You become so comfortable balancing for long periods of time,
that the short amount of actual balance required for kicks seems like nothing at all. Now, imagine applying this idea to your other martial arts training.
Useful Over training
Don’t train so hard that you injure yourself.
Jackie and JCCF donated RMB$1 million (USD$160,000) for the aid relief kits, and Jackie previously donated SGD$100,000 (USD$74,400) when the earthquake hit Nepal in April.
Nepal was struck by a disastrous magnitude 7.8 earthquake on April 25, 2015. More than 8,000 people have been killed and over 23,000 injured.
Read the article here.
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Judo (meaning "gentle way") is a modern martial art, combat and Olympic sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano . Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the objective is to either throw or takedown an opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue an opponent with a pin, or force an opponent to submit with a joint lock or a choke. Strikes and thrusts by hands and feet as well as weapons defenses are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (kata,) and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice. A judo practitioner is called a judoka.
