Jiu-jitsu champ battles Philippines’ sex abuse scourge
Abandoned and sexually abused as a young girl, Angelica, like thousands of minors in the struggled with the horrors of her past.
April 3, 2019
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Abandoned and sexually abused as a young girl, Angelica, like thousands of minors in the struggled with the horrors of her past.
A Japanese worker successfully fended off a bear attack by landing a well-placed punch to its nose. The 44-year-old employee at the Kamisukisawa Apple Orchard in the city of Hirosaki,
With presence of mind and bare knuckles, you can block an assault or a hold up.
Standing at four-foot-ten with an uncanny ability to get lost, I’ve come to terms with the fact that I can very easily be the target of street crimes—petty or otherwise. It certainly doesn’t help that, while others have what has come to be known as Bitchy Resting Face, I’m stuck with what I’ll call Clueless Commuter Face. I might as well stick a bull’s eye on my forehead.
Across time and continents, the martial art that makes masters into legends, Wing Chun kung fu, is now in the Philippines. Fusing physical form and technique and inner spiritual meditation, one might say that it is a perfect mix of fighting arts and yoga. Its popularity can be traced back 400 years to simple origins in China. What is now known as a study in the perfection of power and form was, in-fact, rooted in the desperate tale of a seemingly powerless woman, Yim Wing Chun, after which it was named.
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