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Originally posted by Thalib
That black dude name is Billy Blanks.
He used to play a lot of those B-grade or C-grade martial arts action flicks...
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KAMI : Not just that. At the World Championships (1980), in Madrid, Spain, Pennsylvania's BILLY BLANKS defeated the spanish national champion, advancing to the finals, where he took a silver medal in the Openweight Class. Blanks then took a bronze medal in the 80 kg division, making him the only american double medal winner in world class amateur karate competition, at that time.
He later worked as an artist in many Martial Arts B-Movies and finally developed a system of body conditioning called Tae Bo, supposedly based on his martial arts knowledge.
He has been much criticized by what people feel as an overstimated value of Tae Bo as of real use in "real street situations"...I really doubt that part.
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