BUSINESS INSIDER — Survival Arts Analyzes Popular Fight Scenes

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We were asked by Business Insider to watch fight scenes from popular movies, rate them based on realism, and talk about weaponry in Filipino fighting arts.

Kali weapons expert Jamie Yancovitz reacts to 11 fight scenes featuring traditional Filipino knives and stick weapons and rates them based on their technical accuracy. Yancovitz rates knife fights in Hollywood movies, from "Quantum of Solace" (2008) to "Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation" (2015), "Extraction" (2020), "The Book of Eli" (2010), "Kick-Ass" (2010), and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (2014). She also looks at improvised-weapon scenes in "The Bourne Identity" (2002) and "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" (2003) and rates the technique of baton and stick fighting in "Taken 2" (2012), "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" (2002), and "Arrow" (2012-2020).