Fresh on the heels of posting about low budget German martial arts flick Straight Blast we've just discovered another in-progress project from martial artist Mathis Landwehr.
It seems like fusing martial arts with breakdancing is becoming the wave of the future. Ryoo Seung-Wan dabbled in it with City of Violence, it was the fight style of choice for one of the lead characters in animated series Samurai Champloo and, of course, Thai action star Jija Yanin just took a step in this direction with this year's Raging Phoenix. And now, with the help of French breakdancer Sebastian Ramirez and Raphael Hillebrand, Landwehr is preparing his own break-fight project.
Titled Fight Flow the film is still in development but there are a pair of rehearsal reels that showcase the style of the film, which is being prepared both with a mix of wire-assisted and all natural choreography. We've got the new reel - found via Landwehr's own website - below and you can find the earlier reel here.
It seems like fusing martial arts with breakdancing is becoming the wave of the future. Ryoo Seung-Wan dabbled in it with City of Violence, it was the fight style of choice for one of the lead characters in animated series Samurai Champloo and, of course, Thai action star Jija Yanin just took a step in this direction with this year's Raging Phoenix. And now, with the help of French breakdancer Sebastian Ramirez and Raphael Hillebrand, Landwehr is preparing his own break-fight project.
Titled Fight Flow the film is still in development but there are a pair of rehearsal reels that showcase the style of the film, which is being prepared both with a mix of wire-assisted and all natural choreography. We've got the new reel - found via Landwehr's own website - below and you can find the earlier reel here.
the non-wire work stuff looks 10 times more impressive.
Watch the stuff at the older link - no wires in that anywhere. Would've posted it here but there's a note at the beginning specifically asking people not to. From what I understand they're still working on developing the style and approach they want to take on it ... I emailed Mathis about it yesterday, so hopefully we'll know more soon.
the wire work is impressive, really smooth. but the tender grappling might scare off the homophobes :-D