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Calcio Fiorentino: The Manliest Game On Earth

Friday, April 10, 2009

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Calcio Fiorentino: The Manliest Game On Earth

Calcio Fiorentino is definitely the sort of game you would have been tempted to forget your gym shorts for while you were in high school. This is a man’s game, make no mistake, played by the manliest of men in Italy. Like a primitive forefather of football and rugby, combined with no-holds-barred martial arts, Calcio Fiorentino was a bruiser from the day it was born in the 16th Century. Astonishingly it continues to be played to this day. One word sums it up: brutal.

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Acupuncture’s Evil Twin: The Dim Mak Death Touch

Thursday, May 29, 2008

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Image via brtsergio Enter the Dragon was his last completed film. Six days after it was released, Bruce Lee, one of the biggest icons of martial arts cinema died a sudden and mysterious death. But was he the victim of the legendary dim mak touch of death as [...]

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