Best Fight Scenes: Steven Seagal

Hey guys,

Steven Seagal, are one of my favorite actor and marital artist. He's trained in aikido and use part of it in his movies. Since, the first movie he acted in, people been arguing about his martial art style. Is it aikido? Or some kind form of combative aikido?

He's trained in aikido. In fact, he's a certified aikido master. So, he is using aikido. But, aikido don't punch. He's kind of a pioneer in that he used aikido as part of his fights or rather movies. Aikido, main philosophy is not to engage and hurt their opponents. Just like in real fights, sometime, you use what works or when you're in certain situations.

In fact, just look around youtube watching videos of street fight. You'll realized, you can easily be knockout by a surprise hook. You don't need to even train to be a martial art master. It's wrong for you to punch first but, to win a fight, you need that element of surprise and end the fight as quickly as possible. The longer you prolong the fight, chances are you will get tired and get knockout yourself.

Misconception about martial art is that you're rigid in using what you learn in your own arts. Whereas you see many kind of martial arts and fighting style. Basically, there's no one rule all. In the old days, masters create kata and such according to what they experienced and study in practical and theoretical. And, that's also why you have various people sometime going to dojo or 'testing' fighting with other schools. From that they can learn and improve.

Just like in anything you do, you don't just stick to one way of thinking. You learn from others and others learn from you. Remind you of Bruce lee ways of thinking and jeet kun do. Bruce lee is not just a practitioner, but he's a thinker. He's an improver and a learner. He never say, he's better then anyone else. Because, he knows there's always something better out there.

The best fighter out there is the one that learn from others and in that way he can become a better fighter. In theory and practical. You never stop learning. If you think, you're already a master just because you have black belt degree or dan then you haven't become one. It's a life long learning. That's why you have people in the old days staying in temple or become a hermit. They're constantly learning and thinking and practicing until the day they die. :p

Chat with Indie Game Dev Jason Campbell on Twitter

So, I had a little chat with Indie Game Developer Jason Campbell @GameDevJas on Twitter. I asked for his permission to repost it here. Have a quick read below:

Jason Campbell: Hey there! Thanks for the follow. I have been putting a hell of a lot of effort into my game lately. Hopefully, you like the progress :)
May 29

Me:  What kinda game r u making?
24h 24 hours ago

Jason Campbell: It is a martial arts, action-adventure, platformer :)
24h 23 hours ago

Me: Any videos?
24h 23 hours ago

Jason Campbell: I do actually, unreleased but I'll grab the link for you.
23h 23 hours ago

Me: Cool.
23h 23 hours ago

http://win32developer.com/downloads/trailer_test_02.mov (update: Nov 2020 - link doesn't work anymore) ( he send me a game video link. Click the link if you're interested to watch his game trailer. pretty cool)

Jason Campbell: Still a work in progress :)
23h 23 hours ago

Me: Err no gameplay? But, looks like gonna be great. 👍 ( the gameplay is right at the end. I think :p)
23h 23 hours ago

Jason Campbell: Sure there was.
23h 23 hours ago

Me: Any plan to create games for the 3ds? I own one and think the controller is great for mobile gaming. 😬
23h 23 hours ago

Jason Campbell: Not at this stage, haven't got the hardware or the SDK to code for it.
23h 23 hours ago

Me: i see. all the best for your upcoming game then.
21h 21 hours ago

Jason Campbell: Thank dude :)
12h 12 hours ago

Me: Can I put this little chat bout ur game on my blog? If u have a link to a youtube video that I can also share on my blog?
9h 9 hours ago

Jason Campbell: Sure. No YouTube videos yet. Just the trailer linked above :)
9h 9 hours ago

Me: so I can put the link for the trailer on my blog?
1h 1 hour ago

Me: I'll also put up your name and Twitter address or do you have any bio/website etc people can check your work/updates?
1h 1 hour ago

Yep, http://win32developer.com/blog (updated Nov 2020: blog doesn't work anymore)

Jason Campbell: :)
1h 56 minutes ago

Me: thanks.

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If any game dev interested to post about their games on my blog hit me up at http://twitter.com/freaker126

I'm not a professional blogger or journalist. But, I like to post about games and hardware as you can see from my blog. Anyway, any promo is a good promo for your upcoming products. :)