Martial Arts
Metal Martial Arts
Brian Kennedy & Elizabeth Guo | November 3, 2006
Metal and martial arts have long gone together. In modern times Mixed Martial Arts events like the UFC or PRIDE, have their contestants enter the ring to the ear shattering beat of some heavy metal tune. Beyond similar tastes in music, body piercings and tattoos are common to both heavy metal “head bangers” and to the “head bangers” who fight in full contact mixed martial arts events. But “metal and martial arts” is not just a recent phenomenon; in traditional Chinese martial arts there too has been a link between “metal” and “martial arts” albeit in a far different sense than metal music’s link with mixed martial arts. More
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