A 7-year-old Fullerton girl is now among the world’s youngest martial arts black belts. Second grader Isabella Hanson got her black belt Tuesday after having passed a test in which she broke six ...

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Ralph Macchio finally holds a black belt in karate. Four decades after he first played Daniel LaRusso, Macchio stars alongside Ben Wang and Jackie Chan in this summer's "Karate Kid: Legends." ...

Spend some time with Matthew Fulton, who just celebrated his 15th birthday, and witness the real essence of karate. Matthew has studied karate for nearly six years, helps lead classes, shouts like a ...

Black belts in karate, and in the movies, have become a dime a dozen. Yuji Okumoto, a third-generation Japanese-American, is a brown belt who plays a black-belted villain in ”The Karate Kid II.” He is ...

LUTZ, Fla. — A dojo in Lutz is set to represent Tampa Bay and the United States overseas. Four black belt students at West Coast Karate will compete in the WUKF World Karate Championships in Sweden ...

Melanie Venin earned a junior black belt, her father a second-degree black belt and her mother and sister a black belt. POMPTON LAKES — Here's some good advice: Don't mess with the Venin family! The ...

Mike Griffith, a 21-year-old who lives in Sugar Land, has earned a second-degree black belt at Dai-Ichi Shotokan Karate-Do. The accomplishment is perhaps doubly impressive because he has autism and ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany -- Christopher and Caitlin Holland defended themselves Saturday from a baseball bat, stick, knife and pistol to become the first set of twins to earn Karate Tech black belts in ...

Russian President and martial arts aficionado Vladimir Putin has been awarded a black belt in Kyokushin karate, according to NTV.ru. The Russian leader already holds a ninth degree black belt in ...

Brain scans have revealed distinctive features in the brain structure of karate experts, which could be linked to their ability to punch powerfully from close range. Researchers found that differences ...