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| | Journal of Theatrical Combatives |
 | | Thus, "the martial arts [may] prove their worth in actor training." (55) Yet I must insist that all those "mights, maybes, and perhapses," all those variables, be fully honored and taken into any accounting of the possible or probable benefits of martial training for actors. |
 | | It ought to be clear by now that instauration of "martial arts" training for actors creates a formidably complex set of pedagogical, practical, and technical problems for the average college, university, or conservatory movement/acting teacher even when he is already a martial specialist and doubly so when not. |
 | | Martial arts exotica and esoterica has flowed down through the sixties' radical search for all that was alternative; through the popularity of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris, and Steven Seagal; and into a mythology of the East that has often passed for understanding. |
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