Martial Arts Blew Away the Movie Industry!

Even if there is some occasional contact, the players know what is coming, and can roll with the punches. Just like a dance, everything is timed and happens along a known rhythm. It is the rhythm and feel of a fight that separates a fight scene from an actual event. Not to mention the unknown. Though once you find yourself engaged and fully attentive to an actual fight, the unknown rarely becomes a conscious factor. All of your attention becomes diverted from all of the ‘what if’s’, and you usually find yourself acting and reacting. Hopefully, you have drilled your defense and technique to the point that a lot of what happens is reflexive.

The main element that is usually missing from a trained martial artist’s expectations of a real, live encounter is most often the amount of damage that they feel their techniques are going to do to an opponent. It’s laughable sometimes what you hear people saying regarding their self defense techniques.

“I’m gonna hit him here, and then he’s gonna fold over, then I will kick him in the head and it will be all over.”

Finding a need to outdo ‘himself,’ Smith’s fee went from $10 million to 20 big ones, then from 20 large to $25 million per, before he dived into the big ‘M’ and ‘super-sized’ his life by marrying Jada Pinkett.  She paved her own way as an impressive actress on shows like “A Different World,” “The Cosby Show,” and in blockbuster films such as “Ali,” “Jason’s Lyric,” “Menace To Society,” “Woo,” “Set It Off,” the “Matrix” spinoffs, “The Nutty Professor,” “Scream 2,” “Collateral,” and who knows what else by now. I heard a rumor that the pair might have to buy a continent to use as a tax shelter. Wow – that’s big enough to get on the Oprah list! Combined, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith account for about two dozen top films of the 20th and now, 21st centuries.  And these films usually came with hot music soundtracks, too. This is another example of the deepening relationship between Hollywood and the Rap/Hip-Hop world. For the purpose of fun, let’s call their happy union “Holly-hood.”  Watch out–more fun’s on the way!

Please note that things have changed with regards to technology, folks. Not only does my voice recognition program type as I talk into a microphone, it’ll read it back to me, too.  When my editorial consultant Ms. Melilli (also known as the infamous ‘XoxoJean’) sends e-mails to a friend with a text recognition program, it recognizes her name by saying “Socks-a-Jean.” I’m just happy she likes my smoked turkeys. According to information obtained from my old friend B.Brown of Bar-Red Entertainment, my confidential Author Code Name is: ‘Turkey Smoker of the Stars.‘ His mother Ms. Lydia works for the Atlanta Convention & Visitor’s Bureau. Both she and Miss Jean can keep getting the big birds too, as long as their taste buds approve of the transaction.