In this episode we talk with Demetrius Angelo, mastermind behind the Urban Action Showcase, a Comic Con for martial arts film fanatics. This year's guests will include Michael Jae White, Ron Van Clief and Lu Feng of the Five Deadly Venoms.

If you want to find out more about the Urban Action Showcase, visit their website

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And if you'd like to support the show, or just learn how to improve your martial arts, consider purchasing a copy of the host's book The Principles of Unarmed Combat, 2nd Edition by clicking here

Classical Japanese martial arts expert Ellis Amdur returns to the show to discuss his new book, Roots Still Cracking Rock, and to offer some controversial takes on the history of ancient Japanese fighting arts as well as aikido and BJJ.

To find all of Ellis's books, visit his website

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And if you'd like to support the show, or just learn how to improve your martial arts, consider purchasing a copy of the host's book The Principles of Unarmed Combat, 2nd Edition by clicking here

In this episode of the Martial Podcast, host Mark Jacobs talks to Professor Rey Gonzales, one of the world's leading historians of Filipino martial arts, who explains how everything you think you know about FMA history is probably wrong.

To read Rey Gonzales's dissertation on FMA history, click here or visit his Facebook page

To hear more music from Eleanor Academia, visit her page

And if you'd like to support the show, or just learn how to improve your martial arts, consider purchasing a copy of the host's book The Principles of Unarmed Combat, 2nd Edition by clicking here