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• Kung Fu Movies
  
  A lot of Kung Fu movies came out on North American syndicated television across the nation. A highly remembered Saturday afternoon rite among kids of the seventies and eighties, the popularity of these movies won over independent television stations to reserve a committed airslot for them very much in the same custom of Creature Double FeatureCreature_Double_Feature.
• Bruce Lee
  
  Bruce Lee completed highschool in Edison, Washington, and afterward enrolled as a philosophy major at the University of Washington. He also acquired a job instructing the Wing Chun style of martial arts that he had acquired in Hong Kong to his fellow students and others.
• Jackie Chan
  
  Jackie Chan was born in 1954 on Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, as Jackie Chan Kong Sang (meaning "born in Hong Kong") to Charles and Lee-Lee Chan, refugees from the Chinese Civil War. He was dubbed Pao Pao (Chinese: literally meaning "Cannonball") because he was forever rolling around as an baby.
• Jet Li
  
  Jet Li (born April 26, 1963) is a Chinese martial artist, actor, Wushu champion, and international film star. After three years of intensive training, Jet Li won his first national championship for the Beijing Wushu Team. After retiring at age 17, he went on to win great acclaim in China as an actor making his debut with the film Shaolin Temple (1982).
• Donnie Yen
  
  Donnie Yen The son of martial arts master Bow Sim Mark, Donnie Yen was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He is a well known film and television actor in Hong Kong and, more recently,
• Michelle Yeoh
  
  Michelle Yeoh was born to an ethnic Chinese family in Ipoh, Malaysia on August 6, 1962. She was very sporty when she was young and had a passion in dance.
• Chow Yun-Fat
  
  Chow Yun-Fat (born May 18, 1955) is a Chinese actor. He is one of the most famous actors in Asia and a major actor in the Hong Kong film industry. He mainly plays in dramatic movies. He won Hong Kong's "best actor" award three times and Taiwan's twice.
• Chuck Norris
  
  Chuck Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist, action star, and Hollywood actor who is most well known for playing Cordell "Cord" Walker on Walker, Texas Ranger and for his iconically tough image.
• David Carradine
  
  David Carradine is best known for his roles as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s television series Kung Fu (as well as the sequels in the 1980s and 1990s), 'Big' Bill Shelly in Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha (1972), folksinger Woody Guthrie in Bound for Glory (1976), Abel Rosenberg in Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg (1977), and as Bill in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill (2003,2004).
• Cynthia Rothrock
  
  Cynthia Rothrock is five-time (and undefeated) World Karate Champion in forms and weapons between 1981 and 1985. These categories are not combat-orientated, being displays of fluidity of movement rather than fighting, and are therefore not segregated into male and female categories but fully open to both sexes.
• Jean-Claude Van Damme
  
  Jean-Claude Van Damme (born October 18, 1960) is a Belgian martial artist and actor who is best known for his large catalogue of action movies.
• Wesley Snipes
  
  Wesley Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. He may be best known for his role as the vampire hunter in the eponymous Blade trilogy films.
• Steven Seagal
  
  Steven Seagal (born April 10, 1951) is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, director, martial artist, singer-songwriter, and activist.
• Jason Statham
  
  Jason Statham (born 12 September is an English Actor, recognized for his knockout man roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels , Revolver.
• Martial Arts Styles
  
  Anytime an individual decides to learn how to protect themselves, learn self defense, or become a better person, one thing comes to mind - martial arts. Martial arts are very common these days, being practiced all over the world.
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• Martial Arts For Children
  
  Tho' martial arts can teach children how to defend themselves, it will in addition to teach them self-discipline and confidence as well. If your child has a ill temper or low self-respect, learning a martial art can in reality aid them to come back on the right course. Martial arts will help children with living in general - which will take them a great deal farther in life.