Shinsuke Nakamura Quotes

Whether it's dance or action, what's important is hand and body co-ordination. When you are a good dancer then automatically while performing action, the co-ordination is that much easier.

Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been trained in because, again, it's a whole different ballgame that you're constantly working on - bent legs, loose ankles - which you cannot afford to do when you're doing jumps or anything else.

We do a lot of twisting and turning in our training. Those types of moves really help get the body moving and make sure we're staying agile, which is so important in the ring.

A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

There's a very fine line between martial arts and dance. Kicking with your foot stretched out, or kicking with your foot flat in someone's face, in terms of flexibility, it's all kind of the same thing.

I don't know how to dance, and I don't have any extra flexible skills.

Dancing really teaches you to be aware of your body, and that transitioned well into wrestling.

Dancing is all about your core.

A huge part of Irish dance is balance, which is so good for any kind of combat - just being aware of your body.

Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my arms and hands gracefully.

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.

I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.

I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.

I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.