I just caught “The Art of War” on video, and liked it a lot more than I expected. Between this movie and “Blade,” I’m compelled to ask.
What is Wesley Snipes ma training?
Everything is universal, by definition.
I am not sure
I have hear, that Wesley snipes train mixed martial arts. But thease martial arts are not goods.it’s martial art which is using in the films
Wesley
I seem to recall he was doing TKD mixed of course with HollywoodFU.
Snipes
Wesley Snipes is a Fourth Degree Black Belt in Shotokan Karate. He is a very good martial artist and works hard to stay that way. He is not just using Hollywood-fu in his movies.
-Jeremy Bays
LoL
Of course he’s using hollywoodFU in those movies. Did you see all those high kicks, and blantenly non effective moves. Those arnt moves he’d use on the street buddy…
I read in a martial arts book that Wesley Snipes trained in Capoeria also. Anyone want to confirm or deny? I was a bit skeptical considering that I didn’t see him bust out any break dancing-like moves 
Snipes Promoted!
Wesley Snipes was promoted not long ago (around the same time Blade came out). He is now a fifth degree black belt.
He was promoted by Jhoon Rhee, Chan Poi, Dennis Brown, and a couple of others. What his official style is, I don’t know.
I think he SUCK.
But he is cool thought.
~K~
“maybe not in combat… but think of the chicks man, the chicks!”
Wesley Snipes Martial Arts?!
anone know what he practices? I know he is big into the Japanese arts.
I was watching Blade II the other night, the fight at the end, there is something very cool about the choreography. Not eveyr shot was a strike but it seemed like they were doing alot of feinting or something there…
There’s a commentary track on the Blade 2 DVD where he talks a lot about the fight choreography. I remember him specifically mentioning boxing, pencat silat, and kempo, but there’s probably more. If you get a chance to listen to the track, I highly recommend it. The commentary track from the director is good, too.
I think the art he has trained in the longest is Shotokan. He has since dabbled in other arts, but has legitimate dan grading in karate.
as far as i know he has trained in aiki jujistu as well as a few others kinda JKD ish…
i was glad to see blade 2 coz it has some real scrapping in it compared ot all the wire work of the time the movie was released
dawood
Good Idea CSN, I may have to sit down and watch it tonight with directors commentary, etc…
You guys know what I am talking about though right? Where it almost looks lie they are patting each other down then hitting each other? A good example is when he goes to break the arm of Novak, instead of doing some quick grab and break he sort of sets it up first…
Snipes holds a legitimate (as far as I’m aware) black belt in Shotokan, and has trained Capoeira with some degree of dedication.
He’s also studied stuff like boxing and silat and such, but in the “actor fight scene study” sense of “study.” I don’t know one way or the other if he’s gone into any of them in more depth.
African Tiger? You wanna jump in on this? I’m sure you know better than any of us…
I heard an interview with him on the radio aroung the time that Blade 2 came out, and when he was asked about martial arts, the only two he mentioned were karate and capoeira
Actually. . .
Just before Blade II came out in the theatres, they showed a rerun of a martial arts demonstration–more of a show really–that included several well-known masters of various martial arts. The show was entitled “Masters of the Martial Arts” (presented by Wesley Snipes). In it Wesley Snipes is given some sort of award for his acheivments. I beleive that he holds a dan Shotokan.
capoeira, i’ve definitely heard him mention. but nobody’s mentioned eskrima yet, so i’ll toss that into the growing list. his frequent training partner (who, i believe, did much of the choreography for the original) is jeff ward, a pekita tersia eskrimador (among other things, i daresay). much of the swordplay, in particular, came from there. (notice how much of blade’s swordplay is one handed. not two handed, like you might expect from a more japanese approach, though i’m no expert on kenjutsu.)
stuart b.
nice catch Ap, I hadn’t even looked at his sword play much!
well, i wouldn’t have looked at it and said, “that’s eskrima!” i just happened to have read about the original when it came out. and i was familiar with jeff ward. he talked about blade’s sword style being a fusion of several things, including eskrima. he said that snipes actually travels with a pair of eskrima sticks so he can train on location.
not firsthand knowledge, obviously. but do with it what you will.
stuart b.
I have the idea he holds something like 5th dan in karate,which sounds freaky but I believe it it to be so.
Dunno about other cases.