Chuck Johnson is a Martial Arts Instructor/ Action Film Actor based in Tokyo, Japan, and Michigan, USA. He has been teaching for 16 years, holds ranks in Taekwondo, Judo, Capoeira, and Karate, and is an experienced bodyguard. He is also a member of the Screen Action Stunt Association, and Society of American Fight Directors. Additionally, he has 10 years of ELT experience, and is the developer of Phat English, a system that uses specialized hip-hop music to teach the subtle nuances of GAm English pronunciation. For more information, visit www.chuck-n-action.com or follow Chuck on twitter at chuck_n_action
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- How to Fight Racism… and Win Every Time
- March 3rd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- After everything that I went through in my first few years trying to make it in Japan, a lot of the people close to me told me that I was nuts for choosing to stay. Among other things, I was set up to lose in a kickboxing match, forced to lose in a TV toughman contes ... » Continue Reading
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- Martial Arts Training as the Great Equalizer
- January 28th, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- Not too long ago, I had a chance to watch, a student of former Tokyo pro MMA fighter Ryan Bow make his amateur debut at Muay Thai Fight Night VIII in Portage, MI. In the fight, although he did have a slight height advantage, the fighter (Jack Hart) had a relativ ... » Continue Reading
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- How to make a good martial arts demo reel
- January 21st, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- For the aspiring martial artist, breaking into the action cinema isn’t exactly easy. For starters, there is an unbelievable amount of competition. The entertainment industry is hard enough to break into by itself, but given the fact that action cinema is only a ... » Continue Reading
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- Interview with Chad Johnson: Martial Arts Instructor and Author of the 28 Day Deadline Workout
- January 4th, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- Chad Johnson is a personal trainer (ACE-CPT), Strength Coach (NSCA-CSCS), Youth Fitness Expert (IYCA-YFS) and the owner and head instructor of True Way Martial Arts in Sarasota, Florida. He recently released his Ebook, The 28 Day Deadline Workout, and as everyon ... » Continue Reading
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- Tai Chi: A Martial Art for Both the Young and Old
- November 16th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- Recently after returning to the states for a film, I’ve had some time to catch up with my parents. With my father nearing his mid-70's and my mother (as much she refuses to admit it) following not too far behind him, one would think that my life in martial arts would ... » Continue Reading
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- Finding Balance: The Importance of both Traditional and Mixed Martial Arts
- October 25th, 2010Category: Culture
- One of the interesting things about the evolution of cage fighting and sport MMA is that it seems to have caused a splinter effect within the martial arts community. On one side you have the ‘traditionalists’ who feel that martial arts never have been (and never will ... » Continue Reading
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- More from the monk from Brooklyn
- October 7th, 2010Category: Travel
- Antonio Graceffo, the amazing well-to-do stockbroker-turned-Shaolin Monk whom I interviewed earlier is set to release a new book soon, 'Warrior Odyssey: The Travels of a Martial Artist Through Asia'. Given the girth of his experience in martial arts (and the fascinati ... » Continue Reading
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- Extreme sports as martial arts cross-training
- September 28th, 2010Category: Culture, Outdoor/Sports
- In the last blog entry I spoke about the advantages to using capoeira for martial arts and/or sports cross-training. In this entry however, I would like to shoot to the opposite end of the spectrum and share my experience using extreme sports as a way to cross-train f ... » Continue Reading
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- Capoeira as a cross-training tool
- September 22nd, 2010Category: Culture
- Not too long ago, I was responding to a comment made in a previous entry I had written about correlations between Capoeira and Break dancing. The writer had mentioned that he was a jiu-jitsu student and that he thought that studying Capoeira would be great for his gam ... » Continue Reading
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- The Merits of Working with Difficult Students
- July 20th, 2010Category: Culture
- A few weeks ago, while teaching an action class on simple breakfalls, I had a particularly challenging experience working with a student. At the time, we were working on reverse rolling breakfalls (which admittedly, is not the easiest technique to understand), and he ... » Continue Reading
