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...wasn't going to be someone," says Blanks, 43. He was the fourth of 15 children born to a poor black family in Pennsylvania. He had bad hips, dyslexia and (can you hear the Rocky theme music yet?) was nearly kicked out of his first martial-arts class at age 11. Using a mirror to learn the moves and correct for his impairment, he remade himself. He won scores of karate titles, appeared in a string of B movies and was born again--in that order. He is a preacher in an athlete's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tae-Bo or Not Tae-Bo? | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...Dance Complex. A revolutionary form combining martial art and break-dancesque moves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOU CAN DANCE. | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...Westminster, which lies about an hour south of Los Angeles. The demonstrators unfurled signs declaring, OUR WOUNDS WILL NEVER HEAL! BE AWARE! COMMUNISTS ARE INVADING AMERICA. They are not angry about some controversial video (the rental shelves carry nothing questionable; the most popular tape, Tran says, is a martial-arts epic in which a student of Buddha's sends a monkey angel from heaven to fight evil on earth). Rather, the demonstrators started milling around Tran's store in January after he defiantly displayed a flag of the communist government of Vietnam and a poster of the regime's founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Brought Back Ho Chi Minh | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...does not just play drums this enormous-to approach them is a discipline. Kodo is formed by a community of artists living on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. While their perfect synchrony and physically rigorous technique approaches the martial arts, the group expresses an infectious playfulness and joy. Kodo reveal a childlike approach to drumming in the Japanese characters of their name, which can mean either "children of the drum" or "heartbeat," the original rhythm of the mother's heartbeat as first heard in the womb...

Author: By Contributing Writer, | Title: Drums Take Over Hall | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...Dance Complex. A revolutionary form combining martial art and break-dancesque moves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOU CAN DANCE. | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

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