One thing people routinely fail to incorporate into their training is what to do when they’re hurt. It’s probably because we’re all invincible and immortal, right? I mean, we’re doing the hurting, not the other way around… aren’t we?

Long before the world came to know Chuck Norris through the lens of entertainment, he had already earned deep respect where it mattered most—on the mats, in the dojo, and among those who truly understood discipline. Since the 1960s—before the films, before the mythology, before Hollywood had any claim— Black Belt Magazine  chronicled his journey. Chuck was more than a subject of...

The Chuck Norris Film Festival Weekend keeps rolling—and this one takes us back to 1979, when Fighting Stars magazine featured a killer still from A Force of One.

Trying to understand Leo Gaje is reminiscent of the Japanese story Rashomon, wherein every character recounts the events from a different viewpoint, with no one agreeing on the facts.

Okinawans who made the voyage to China would have been something like today’s astronauts, rare individuals who have been to fantastically far-off places and seen and learned wondrous things.