Grayson and martial arts
Caslin's boyfriend Hisonni Johnson wrote and directed a pilot series, Grayson: Earth One. It debuted this last weekend on YouTube as webisode installments.
I met up with Steve about a month ago to run through some stick training (he said his character uses two sticks/batons). I haven't done any serious training in over a decade, but used to be a senior student under Dan Inosanto and was under apprenticeship to Mark Mikita during the 90s. Steve remembered how much training I was doing in martial arts, at the time, and so gave me a call to do some catching up.
Back then when I was intense about martial arts, I knew a number of guys from the Inosanto Academy who went on to have successful careers in stuntwork. I taught some of them gymnastics classes and privates while others came in for open gym at SMGC.
I've met some of the most well-known names in the MA community, as well as trained with and trained under them. In my experience without putting anyone else down, Mark Mikita is quite simply the most well-researched, most well-rounded student, practitioner (master), and teacher of the fighting arts. He is the "real deal" when it comes to realistic, functionalized fighting and developing adaptability for self-defense in varied, real-world environments, outside of the squared circle or the octagon ring. He put himself through chiropractic school to better understand how to attack the human skeleton. He leaves no stone left unturned and brings a variety of combat arts (including combative firearms training) and related fields all under one umbrella, sometimes under the Filipino moniker of "kali" or "escrima". Essentially, for him, he will utilize whatever works.
For a serious martial artist like Mark who would just as sooner paint all the windows to his school black, invite no one, and keep the training group small and intimate rather than commercialize the art, he too is currently working and starring in an independent film.
In my opinion, he's the best kept secret in the martial arts world. Where so many people spout on about Bruce Lee's philosophical beliefs as it relates to martial arts, and end up doing exactly what Bruce Lee was against, Mark truly lives and breathes the following:
Series Synopsis: "Grayson: Earth One' is the re-imagined origin story of the hero known as Nightwing/ Richard Grayson. The series takes place in a new continuity on a new Earth separate from the DC Universe, freeing it from continuity restraints.Support the project with donations here.
Starring Stephen McCain as Richard Grayson, Daz Crawford as Dr. Victor Friese, Rileah Vanderbilt as Helena Bertinelli, Angela Gulner as Barbara Gordon and Katie H. Young as Carrie Kelly
I met up with Steve about a month ago to run through some stick training (he said his character uses two sticks/batons). I haven't done any serious training in over a decade, but used to be a senior student under Dan Inosanto and was under apprenticeship to Mark Mikita during the 90s. Steve remembered how much training I was doing in martial arts, at the time, and so gave me a call to do some catching up.
Back then when I was intense about martial arts, I knew a number of guys from the Inosanto Academy who went on to have successful careers in stuntwork. I taught some of them gymnastics classes and privates while others came in for open gym at SMGC.
I've met some of the most well-known names in the MA community, as well as trained with and trained under them. In my experience without putting anyone else down, Mark Mikita is quite simply the most well-researched, most well-rounded student, practitioner (master), and teacher of the fighting arts. He is the "real deal" when it comes to realistic, functionalized fighting and developing adaptability for self-defense in varied, real-world environments, outside of the squared circle or the octagon ring. He put himself through chiropractic school to better understand how to attack the human skeleton. He leaves no stone left unturned and brings a variety of combat arts (including combative firearms training) and related fields all under one umbrella, sometimes under the Filipino moniker of "kali" or "escrima". Essentially, for him, he will utilize whatever works.
For a serious martial artist like Mark who would just as sooner paint all the windows to his school black, invite no one, and keep the training group small and intimate rather than commercialize the art, he too is currently working and starring in an independent film.
In my opinion, he's the best kept secret in the martial arts world. Where so many people spout on about Bruce Lee's philosophical beliefs as it relates to martial arts, and end up doing exactly what Bruce Lee was against, Mark truly lives and breathes the following:
1. Research your own experience.
2. Absorb what is useful
3. Reject what is useless.
4. Add what is specifically your own.
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posted by The WordSmith from Nantucket at 6/03/2013 12:44:00 PM
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