ST. LOUIS — Inside of a small space in south city along Southwest Avenue is the St. Louis branch school of the Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu Academy. It’s a traditional kung fu system of infighting ...

Kung fu is under threat in the very city that gave the world Bruce Lee. Can an ambitious new digital project preserve some of its arcane forms or even revive interest in it among a new generation?

Zhang Daojin, an inheritor of Six Harmony Praying Mantis boxing from Shandong province, instructs one of his foreign students in 2024. [PHOTO/XINHUA] JINAN — In a classroom at the Confucius Institute ...

There's a good reason Chinese martial artists for centuries have copied the movements of the praying mantis, as you'll see in this in-your-face display from a real practitioner. Somayeh Kashi of ...

On a recent afternoon, eight students gathered at Bu Ting Xi Kung Fu Academy in downtown Columbia. Clad in black and gold uniforms, they prepared for a session of kung fu training with instructor, or ...

Adriano Barros of Sao Paulo, Brazil, was one of four men to become a disciple in Chung’s School of Praying Mantis Kung Fu in Midland on Feb. 20. In an ancient and formal ceremony, including bowing to ...

JINAN — In a classroom at the Confucius Institute of the University of Granada, in Spain, a group of Spanish students mirrored their teacher's martial arts movements — holding horse stance, jabbing ...