martial arts

Bob Ong, 70, has been practicing the martial art for almost as long as he's been alive — from New York's Chinatown in the 1960s to Tampa today.

Director Ryan Watson, who currently teaches at USF, says most of the all Black cast of actors are from the Tampa Bay area. But they had to outsource the martial artists from across the country.

The heavy thud of punches and kicks smacking punching bags could be heard through the walls of a gym for Muay Thai, a martial arts fighting style from…