{"id":543,"date":"2013-10-07T22:05:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T21:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2013-10-07T22:05:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T21:05:47","slug":"french-mma-and-cuban-trapeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/french-mma-and-cuban-trapeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of French MMA Paraisy, and Cuban trapeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an unusually artistic view of MMA, without any fighting, in this short film  portrait of French fighter <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Paraisy\" class=\"fbd_link_external\">Norman Paraisy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fbd_image_caption\" style=\"width:500px;margin: 1em auto;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/76032514\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/76032514\" class=\"fbd_link_external\">A Fighter in the Wind &mdash; Norman Paraisy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I wrote about the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/on-the-popularity-of-mma\/\" class=\"fbd_link\">popularity of Mixed Martial Arts<\/a> about five years ago; I still maintain there&#8217;s a big difference in the reasons most people watch it and the reasons the serious people really do it.<\/p>\n<p>For another implicit study of athletic dedication, see the music video below. OK, so these are Cuban trapeze artists, not martial artists. I include it here because, credit to director <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/tomhaines\" class=\"fbd_link_external\">Tom Haines<\/a>, I promise this is the most beautifully shot piece about a niggling leg injury you will ever see. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fbd_image_caption\" style=\"width:500px;margin: 1em auto;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/43384816\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/43384816\" class=\"fbd_link_external\">Temper Trap &mdash; Trembling Hands (Director&#8217;s Cut)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an unusually artistic view of MMA, without any fighting, in this short film portrait of French fighter Norman Paraisy: A Fighter in the Wind &mdash; Norman Paraisy I wrote about the popularity of Mixed Martial Arts about five years ago; I still maintain there&#8217;s a big difference in the reasons most people watch it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/french-mma-and-cuban-trapeze\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video of French MMA Paraisy, and Cuban trapeze&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-martial-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}