I love watching the fighting and action in the best kung fu and martial arts movies, and I have watched quite a few of them over the years I can tell you! So here is my pick of what I think are the 5 best martial arts movies ever made:

Enter The Dragon - Bruce Lee is widely regarded as the best kung fu film star of all time, so it would be tantamount to blasphemy if anyone were to write a list like this without including at least one of his movies. In my opinion the 1973 classic Enter The Dragon features Bruce Lee at the top of his game. There are some great one liners with Lee doling out his kung fu philosophy, and the actual fighting in this movie in very realistic and exciting to watch even if all of the acting isn't quite up to the same high level.

Martial arts, or karate as it is known, is a great way to learn how to defend yourself, how to condition your body and gain great discipline on how you move. Some of the earliest beginnings of these arts can be traced to countries such as China and Japan and Korea.

The word karate actually needs empty hands. Usually the traditional training sequence of martial arts begins with the healing arts, the conditioning arts or exercise and finally martial arts the military part of the training.Karate in the Orient is usually practiced as a lifetime endeavor. Practitioners begin very young practice well into their old age.

Everybody wants to have the power of Iron Man! They want to be strong, able to jump into combat and toss around an attacker like a rag doll. The problem is that nobody seems to know what true power is.

Everybody confuses the idea of power with the size of their muscles, or strength, or other things. But power has nothing to do with strength or muscles. The actual truth is that Power has to do with stabilizing the motor that is your body.

A motor is two terminals between which there is tension. Whether it is a push or a pull, the tension between two poles creates a motor. Push on another body and you have a motor, love somebody and you have a motor, and so on from the smallest to the largest objects in this universe.

The martial arts have long been held up as a way to enlightenment. Indeed, this is the goal at the end of the road of The True Martial Art. This article is about why this is so, and to enable the reader to walk to the end of that road all the sooner.

Enlightenment is when light shines forth from the individual. With that light the enlightened being views the world differently. His perceptions are heightened, and he has a superior viewpoint.

If enlightenment happened because of motion, then all motion would result in enlightenment. Gymnastics, ballet, swimming, all would result in an enlightened individual, but they don't, so one must ask oneself, What is different about the Martial Arts that they result in enlightenment?