Shinobu Kandori
Shinobu Kandori is a Japanese pro wrestler/politician/MMA star. She’s also 52 years old and has just signed on to fight a woman who’s 6″1 and 210 pounds in an upcoming fight.
Sarah wrote an explainer on Kandori for Fightland.
To read it click here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
The Fits
It could be fairly argued that the boxing movie as a genre has gotten quite predictable and stale.
That’s why new indie movie The Fits is such an intriguing, welcome new film.
Its use of the sweet science is a bold new direction for fight — or at least fight tangential — films.
Sarah wrote about it for Fightland.
To read about this click here.
Filed under Art, Films, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Shaun Frank
One of the biggest songs of 2016 was The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” featuring Halsey.
That song had a northern secret weapon to it — it was co-written by Canadian Shaun Frank.
Frank’s had a long road from screamo rock band singer to EDM producer/DJ to #1 hitmaker.
He told me all about it in a feature interview for SOCAN’s Words & Music Magazine.
To read the interview click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Children training martial arts
It has dawned on a segment of the (hover?) parenting world that enrolling your children in an athletic pursuit that involves punching, kicking, and simulated and/or real combat may potentially cause injury to said child.
There is now some clinical research to help weight more exactly what those risks might be — and what the benefits are as well.
Sarah wrote about this new study for Asian World Of Martial Arts.
To read it click here.
Filed under Health, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Ontario greenhouses
For all the rah-rah about how well it treats its citizens, provides a safety net for the less fortunate and supports refugees and immigrants, there’s a semi-secret underclass Canadians should be ashamed about the way they’re treated — temporary foreign workers.
Brought in to Canada on restrictive short term contracts to do farming, manual labour and “jobs Canadians won’t do,” temporary workers are often exploited in this country.
A recent documentary about this subject called Migrant Dreams explores this subject in depth.
I spoke to director Min Sook Lee about it for Samaritan Mag.
To read the full interview click here.
Filed under Films, Shameless Promotion, Television
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