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Billy Blanks developed the routine in 1976 by combining dance with elements from his martial arts and boxing training to form a workout regimen. [1] During the 1990s, a series of videos was mass-marketed to the public; by 1999, an estimated 1.5 million sets of videos had been sold by frequently-aired television infomercials. [6]
Zumba is a fitness program that involves cardio and Latin-inspired dance. It was founded by Colombian dancer and choreographer Beto Pérez in 2001. [1] It currently has 200,000 locations, with 15 million people taking classes weekly, and is located in 180 countries. [2] [3] Zumba is a trademark owned by Zumba Fitness, LLC.
Just Dance Kids 2014 is a 2013 video game for the Wii, Wii U and Kinect for Xbox 360. [1] It is the 13th game released as a part of Ubisoft 's Just Dance franchise and the third and final installment produced for the Just Dance Kids spin-off series.
YouTube Kids has faced criticism from advocacy groups, particularly the Fairplay Organization, for concerns surrounding the app's use of commercial advertising, as well as algorithmic suggestions of videos that may be inappropriate for the app's target audience, as the app has been associated with a controversy surrounding disturbing or violent ...
Sanda or Sanshou (also known as Chinese boxing and Chinese kickboxing) is a form of kickboxing originally developed by the Chinese military based upon the study and practices of traditional Kung fu and modern combat fighting techniques; it combines traditional kickboxing, which include close range and rapid successive punches and kicks, with ...
Yaw-Yan, also called Sayaw ng Kamatayan (English: Dance of Death), [1] is a Filipino martial art developed by Napoleon A. Fernandez and based on older Filipino martial arts. [2] Since its inception in the 1970s, it has dominated the kickboxing scene in the Philippines and has proven very effective against other stand-up fighting arts [citation ...
Blanks played Ashley Judd's kickboxing instructor in Kiss the Girls (1997). [17] In the late 1980s, Blanks developed the Tae Bo workout, while running a karate studio in Quincy, Massachusetts. He used components of his martial arts and boxing training. [18] The name is a portmanteau of tae (as in taekwondo) and bo (as in boxing). [19]
Knocking and kicking (or yuna onse [1]) is a little-known traditional African-American dance-like martial art, arguably practiced clandestinely in parts of the Southern US and on the Sea Islands. Music and acrobatic movements made knocking and kicking inseparable from dance. Knocking and kicking was performed secretly within a black community.