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Jerry Bell. a 10th degree black belt, and the founder of Black Ryu, a martial art form that was born out of the african continent. retired from competition after more than 500 fights, with no defeats. He also won the real Kumite in Japan, twice. In fact, He was the first foreigner ever to do so. You might also find it interesting that He has two Grammys and an American Music Award under his belt, through his vocal work with the Dazz band.
Jerry's screename here matches the film he will soon be featured in titled "Bodyweapon: The Shadow Kumite". This isn't your ordinary martial arts film. Its ghostly, steam punk, and has a cool spaghetti western kind of vibe, .
Game developer Team Orbit will be creating the official video game for the film. 3DRetro.com recently acquired an exclusive on the first series of action figures.
You can find out more through the following links:
Bodyweapon (Official Movie Site)
The Black Ryu Association
Bodyweapon Store
ThunderBear
Team Orbit
3DRetro
...KUMITE: The Kumite is a fighting tournament held in different parts of the world by different styles of Martial Arts. Some may disagree that this tournament the Kumite exists, but in fact it is very real. This Kumite started in the halls of the Egyptian warrios dating back to 500bc even through the history of the Roman gladiators were one would fight to the death or till the other warrior submitted. So, it is not new to the Japanese or Chinese or Korean Martial Arts. The Japanese and Korean and Chinese Martial Arts are fairly new to the new world. The Samurai code of the a warrior existed long before there was even a Japanese Samurai. There are many people who are very ignorant and make many statements that are incorrect about the fighting arts only because of what they read in modern books or what they see in the movies that do that tell the facts, But indeed the kumite is very real even in the living of modern man. The most modern of this kumite is the 100 man fight in Kyokushinkai Karate under Grand Master and founder Masutatsu Oyama. The next is the Shido system of Karate that take place underground in the fuji mountains of Japan and in the underground of Osaka Japan this Kumite also takes place in the underground of Hong Kong and in the back street of Bangkok Thailand. This Kumite is no different than two Samurai facing eachother sword and sword and fighting to the death this is called the Kumite. Kumite in Japanese termonology literally means to fight or sparring or one who competes. Multi-man Sparring In addition to the number of rounds of kumite as mentioned above a special tradition of Kyokushin has been the 50- and 100- man kumite. The 100-man kumite was designed as a special test for advanced practitioners of the art. In these extreme examples of kumite, the subject of the test fights 50 to 100 opponents (depending on the test) in rapid succession, usually two-minute bouts separated by one-minute rest periods. The subject has to "win" (i.e., not get knocked-out) in at least 50-percent of the bouts in order to be deemed as passing the test. One example of someone who successfully completed the 100-man fight is Miyuki Miura. Reportedly, only 16 people have successfully completed the 100-man fight. There is a trend these days of dojos and organizations around the world to run their own 100 Man Kumite in their own country with their own students as opponents. Only 100 man kumite tests conducted by Honbu are recognized and recorded. Masutatsu Oyama is reported to have completed a 300-man fight over 3 days.