Boxing ( pugilism, prize fighting, the sweet science or in Greek pygmachia ) is a martial art and combat sport in which two people engage in a contest of strength, reflexes, and endurance by throwing punches at an opponent with the goal of a knockout with gloved hands.

Headgear ( martial arts ) | Headgear is mandatory in modern amateur boxing

The bokken is used as an inexpensive and relatively safe substitute for a real sword in several martial arts such as kendo, aikido and kenjutsu.

Additionally, various koryu ( traditional Japanese martial arts ) have their own distinct styles of bokken which can vary slightly in length, tip shape, or in whether or not a tsuba ( hilt guard ) is added.

In the world of martial arts, poison is considered the act of one who is too cowardly and dishonorable to fight ; and indeed, the only character that explicitly fits these characteristics is Jade Fox.

Capoeira (; ) is a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance and music.

Capoeira nowadays is not only a martial art, but an active exporter of Brazilian culture all over the world.

The martial art aspect is still present and, like old times, is still subtle and disguised, leading many non-practitioners to ignore its presence.

Capoeira is a fast and versatile martial art which is historically focused on fighting outnumbered or in technological disadvantage.

In a roda every cultural aspect of Capoeira is present, not only the martial side.

He has blended judo, western boxing, kickboxing, and gymnastics into his own unique fighting style and is a master of multiple martial arts.

Another exception is the perpetrator can be retried by court martial in a military court, if they have been previously acquitted by a civilian court, and are members of the military.

For the same reason, Kung-fu ( Pinyin gōngfú 功夫 " ability ", meaning " Chinese martial arts ") is pronounced instead of.

It is these qualities, coupled with El Cid's legendary martial abilities, which have fueled his reputation as an outstanding battlefield commander.

Enter the Dragon is a 1973 Hong Kong martial arts action film directed by Robert Clouse ; starring Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly and John Saxon.

Lee ( Bruce Lee ) is a Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kong who possesses great philosophical insight into martial arts as well as physical prowess.

Emin Boztepe ( born 17 June 1962 ) is an American martial artist of Turkish origin who held German nationality prior to naturalization.

He did, however, condemn recent threats from the Military commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, to declare martial law and arrest members of the present government if the bill is passed.

It is also important to note that during the 80's, the People's Republic of Poland instituted the martial law to vanquish and censor all forms of opposition against the communist rule of the nation, including outlets such as cinema and radio.

Juego del Palo is a Canarian martial art which literally translates as game of the stick.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

The artist looks at an ankle, a calf, a bosom and, in his mind's eye, the clothes drop away and he sees her as she really is.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now ''.

In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;

it is particularly the artist ( Tonio Kroger, Aschenbach, Leverkuhn ) who suffers from it.

The artist, unlike the philosopher, is not a removed observer aiming at neutral and rarified high levels of abstraction.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

Paula's older brother is Edward Steichen, a talented artist and, for the past half-century, one of the world's eminent photographers.

One might argue that the ultimate purpose of literary scholarship is to correct this spontaneous provincialism that is likely to obscure the horizons of the general public, of the newspaper critic, and of the creative artist himself.

Malraux, to be sure, does not abandon the world of violence, combat and sudden death which has become his hallmark as a creative artist, and which is the only world, apparently, in which his imagination can flame into life.

he is far from being a literary hero, yet is a creative artist.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

This is when his troubles begin, not to mention a fledgling artist who he hires, and who turns out to have ideas of his own, with particular respect to the hero's sweetheart-secretary.

His portrayal of an edgy head-in-the-clouds artist is virtually flawless.

By the end of the third act, the artist is dead but the body lingers on, a shell among other shells.

On the whole, however, one must wonder at just what it is that forces a beloved artist to besmirch her own reputation as time marches inexorably on.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

Miss Schwarzkopf is too great an artist to need them.

`` The artist is like a fragment of a mosaic -- no, he is more than that, a virtuoso performer in some vast philharmonic.

* Salvatore Iro, artist, author of Manifesto Art is ... Shit, a collection of works conceived to decrypt the language of modern and contemporary art, in 2012 creates the artwork Ceci est une pomme, marked by the subheading: " non aristotelian obviousness ".

It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.