Billy Blanks
Birth : 1955-09-01, Erie - Pennsylvania - USA
History
Muscular African American sports star, actor, media identity and inventor of the phenomenally popular "Tae Bo" fitness system, derived from his extensive martial arts training. Blanks was born in Eerie, Pennsylvania in 1955 amongst humble backgrounds and grew up as one of 15 children, battling dyslexia and tendon problems. However that didn't stop him from starting his martial arts training at age 14 and eventually achieving black belts in tae kwon do & several other arts, and winning numerous US martial arts tournaments.
Blanks first popped up on movie screens in the mid 1980s in tough guy parts utilizing his athletic background and grim faced looks. Films roles included Tango & Cash (1989), Driving Force (1989) and A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave (1990). Things looked up in 1991, when Blanks scored the minor role of drug addicted running back "Billy Cole" in the explosive The Last Boy Scout (1991)....and further work followed often sharing lead billing in low budget - high action fare such as Talons of the Eagle (1992), TC 2000 (1993) and Expect No Mercy (1995).
In the late 1990s, Billy's innovative and exciting "Tae Bo" workout routine swept around the world like wildfire, and propelled him into the position of one of the world's most recognizable and biggest selling fitness trainers. The remarkable Blanks continues to refine and promote his unique "Tae Bo" fitness system, and he operates the Billy Blanks World Training Center in Sherman Oaks, California.
7th Degree Black Belt Billy Blanks had one of the greatest karate fight records in the sport's long history. Blanks was a 7-time world karate champion, the first Amateur Athletic Union Champ in 1975, the 1984 Massachusetts Golden Gloves Boxing Champion, and the Tri-State Golden Gloves Champion of Champions. He was the captain of the United States Karate Team and won over 30 gold medals in international competition. He was the number 1 or number 2 rated full-contact karate fighter in the United States for almost seven straight years. His epic battles with "Nasty" Anderson are legends among martial arts fans. He posted over 300 career victories. In 1982, Billy Blanks was honored by being inducted into the Karate Hall of Fame.
Self
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.
Billy Blanks
Eddie Krumble works as a paid audience member for infomercials and experiences a whirlwind of overnight fame after a late-night talk show host publicizes his frequent infomercial appearances.
Mr. Wilson
When three best friends are forced to fall in love in order to save their jobs, they learn that letting go is a lot harder then it seems.
Follow the number 1 ranked youth soccer team in America as they play professional youth soccer teams in the UK before returning for their final tournament together for the National State Cup Champions.
Sheriff Tom
A group of shape-shifting werewolves descend upon a small town in search of a girl who is re-born once every 2000 years. She holds the key to their survival and all will die who stand in their way.
Himself
The life of Fumio Demura, the greatest karate master of a generation.
Self
Billy Blanks is bringing you the ultimate in cardiovascular and strength training with Tae Bo Platinum Collection. This collection mixes the best of the original Tae Bo moves, along with rejuvenated cardio routines and focused abdominal training, creating a full body workout that will get you slimming down and powering up. Put your balance, coordination, and stamina to the test while toning and strengthening through four targeted workouts.
Billy Blanks
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
Himself
This is the definitive Tae Bo workout. It brings you the best overall body workout combining cardio, sculpting and ab training for maximum fat burning. You will shed pounds, loose inches and shape your body like never before. Not to mention, you will change the way you feel about fitness forever. Known for his amazing ability to motivate, Billy is your coach. He and the crew are with you step by step, as you change your life, one kick and punch at a time.
Billy Blanks
Billy Blanks s Tae Bo system has been helping people lose weight and look great for years and Billy has continuously incorporated new techniques into his his work-outs to keep them fresh and effective. From this development comes his signature "Cardio Bursts" routines that add an extra push to his already effective Tae Bo moves. This program will help participants kick and punch their way to leaner better bodies.
Billy Blanks
Billy Blanks: Ultimate Tae Bo 10th Anniversary Edition
Himself
Ultimate BootCamp is designed by Billy to be the fastest hour in fitness. This is the workout that ties it all together: cardio, upper-body toning, lower-body toning, and abs in one mega-workout that drives you to peak performance.
Billy Blanks
In BASIC TRAINING BootCamp™, Billy teaches you exactly how to get started on the path to a better you. In this workout, he takes his experience from six days of REAL basic-training exercise and concentrates it into one get-you-started workout that lays the foundation for your new body, new spirit, and new life you want! BASIC TRAINING BootCamp™ focuses on the core instructional messages of Billy's new program, along with how to make the most out of your Billy Bands™ to help you get started on the right track. With Billy, you will learn how to set goals and, most of all, reach them!
Himself
In this workout, Billy takes the basics of his world-famous TAE BO(r) moves and adapts them just for kids to create a fast-moving, entertaining routine to keep them slim, strong, and active. With high-energy moves and music, Billy's brand-new workout shows youngsters that fitness is fun, while providing kids with a cardio "kick." Best of all, TAE BO KICKS(r) shows how to use your body at your own pace to stay fit and motivated for life!
Himself
Banish flab from every part of your body by taking-and keeping-it off once and for all with these rapid-fire moves, high-energy music and Billy 's uniquely effective motivation. You won't find a better total-body workout anywhere else, because he brings together all the weapons in his powerful TAE BO arsenal to help say goodbye to unsightly fat for good!
Billy Blanks
Billy Blanks Tae Bo workout video, contains strength and power workouts.
Himself
The Strength Within is an exciting new program from the Tae Bo Believers Workout series to help you firm and tone on the outside, while building a strong will on the inside.
Considered the pilates of Tae Bo, Billy Blanks: Tae Bo Flex focuses on core stability and toning exercises. As with most Tae Bo productions, this DVD promises the best results if performed with other videos in the series. Though perfect for those who want to concentrated on muscle sculpting, particularly within the confines of an apartment or otherwise small space, a more cardiovascular workout can be found in Tae Bo Advanced or the Tae Bo Ripped series.
As a seven-time Martial Arts Champion, Billy knows how to create a routine that is honest and effective with no fad diets, fancy gimmicks, or complicated machines. It's just you and Billy, bound together by the desire to get you fit, both inside and out. Now, with new moves and new music, Tae Bo Cardio is Billy's best yet, building on the basic foundational moves of Tae Bo to create a continuous cardiovascular workout that rocks.
Himself
Forearms, biceps, triceps, shoulders, chest - all these muscle groups are included in TaeBo’s Ultimate Upper Body. This workout targets each individual muscle, with a variety of different workouts. The video is geared to tone and tighten the complete upper body with an all-in-one workout, so there’s no need for anything else.
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that drives you to peak performance and give you that "Get Ripped" look.
Himself
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that drives you to peak performance and give you that "Get Ripped" look.
Himself
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that drives you to peak performance and give you that "Get Ripped" look.
Himself
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that drives you to peak performance and give you that "Get Ripped" look.
Himself
Billy Blanks, seven-time World Martial Arts Champion and the creator of the original Tae Bo, introduces Tae Bo Gold, an awesome new workout for men and women of all ages. Tae Bo Gold helps blend your hidden inner strength with moves from Tae-Kwon-Do, boxing, and dance to give you more explosive energy than ever. A hot new soundtrack motivates to help you get fit, lose weight, have fun and be strong. Join the millions of people all over the world and be part of a fitness revolution!
Himself
Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.
Himself
Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.
Himself
Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.
Himself
Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.
Craegan
When one of Mike McBride's men goes rogue and takes a group of gymnasts hostage to Devil's Island in exchange for the return of drug lord Carlos Gallindo, the SEALS face their most perilous assignment yet.
Instructor
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
Niko
A martial arts expert who runs a dojo for under-privileged kids from a dilapidated warehouse is shaken down by gangsters demanding protection money. Then when one of his students is gunned down in the street by the gang, he swears revenge. Meanwhile the gang leader is setting up a death match between the best fighters and is forcing a former trainer to find a new champion by threatening his granddaughter.
Himself
The first video to combine international martial arts together with interviews and demonstrations by celebrities of Hollywood.
Justin Vanier
Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the mysterious Virtual Arts Academy in search of Eric, a fellow agent. In this high-tech facility, the maniacal leader Warbeck is training assassins to become even more efficient killing machines using virtual reality. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit, Justin finds Eric, and together with the idealistic Vicki must bring down Warbeck before he succeeds with his deadly plans
John Portland
A private eye helps an amnesiac CIA agent elude mobsters who don't want him to regain his memory of their drug operation.
Billy Grant
Ken has just moved from Kansas with his mother. He talks to a girl named Julie, not knowing that her boyfriend Tom is very possessive of her. Tom is learning karate from Lee, a sensei whose brother was killed by a rookie cop named Billy. Billy has since then become the janitor of the school that Ken, Julie and Tom go to. When Ken gets beaten up by Tom for talking to Julie again, Billy helps Ken by teaching him how to defend himself, which eventually leads to a battle between student vs. student, and sensei vs. sensei.
Jason Storm
Somewhere in the future the environmental overkill had come. Many people had died. The rich were able to build the underworld, the poor had to stay on the surface building gangs to survive. Jason Storm, an underworld guard gets knowledge of a conspiracy to kill all people on the surface. He needs to flee to the surface, and wins Sumai, a respected martial arts master, as his ally to stop the dirty plot.
Billy
Two men have different motivations but the same goal when they team up and mount an assault on a powerful drug gang.
A weakling joins the French Foreign Legion and fights bad guys and corruption along the way. Billy Blanks is evil.
Tyler Wilson
After 3 DEA agents are killed by crime boss Mr. Li (Hong), the DEA reluctantly calls in New York cop and martial arts expert Tyler Wilson (Blanks) and sends him undercover on assignment to Toronto to team up with Canadian vice cop Michael Reeds (Merhi). Wilson and Reeds must infiltrate Li's gang, so enter a martial arts tournament that Mr Li is known to attend to recruit talent.
Black Thug (uncredited)
Uncle Tak is famous for using Chinese herbal medicines to cure diseases. A martial arts expert, he also teaches the young how to defend themselves. One of his students, Johnny, dreams of monopolizing the teaching of kung fu throughout the United States. To accomplish this, he tries to kill Uncle Tak. Chuck, Uncle Tak's best student from Hong Kong, comes to Los Angeles to find his master. Chuck is willing to let Johnny have his way, and tries to take Uncle Tak back to Hong Kong. But Johnny and his men will not leave Chuck alone. Chuck, on his way back to Hong Kong, returns for the showdown.
Mr. Brown
When someone tries to murder watchmaker Eddy Kay, the incident triggers a barrage of nightmares and flashbacks into a past that isn't his own. Fearing for his sanity, Eddy contacts psychiatrist Dr. Anna Nolmar for help. Anna thinks he's hallucinating until another attack proves the dangers are all too real. The two of them go on the run, trying to discover the truth about Eddie's past and true identity before it kills them.
Billy Cole
When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going on between a crooked politician and the owner of a pro football team.
Khan
Kahn is a heavy weight kick-box champion, who often kills his opponents in front of the running camera, to sell it on video tape. Jake had to witness once how his brother was killed by him, and now has come for revenge. But first he has to improve his fighting skills; he asks Phang, the only person in the whole world who ever had Khan down on his back, to train him until he is a match for him.
African Legionnaire
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.
Baskin's Fighter #1
This time China O'Brien has trouble with a dealer who puts a prize on her head because she had spoiled an important drug deal of his. But all the world's criminals will not be enough to catch up with China O'Brian, one of the masters of the martial arts.
pool
In the near future Steve takes a job as a tow truck driver that has to battle a gang of baddies led by Nelson.
Prison Thug (uncredited)
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.
Black Rose
To avenge the brutal murder of his brother, Jake Ray journeys to the Philippines, where his search for truth finds him battling both in and out of the ring. But the weapons are always the same: bare fists, bare feet. And the rules never change: last man standing wins.
Guard
Joe Wong (Fong) is a private investigator who goes in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam vet, a pro-boxing champ and a former cop to save her...
A dark, gritty, dystopian, western action martial arts film featuring a strong 'no-holds-barred' female protagonist portrayed by action film star Cynthia Rothrock. The plot centers around a sheriff’s sister who seeks revenge against the terrifying leader of a group of outlaws after discovering he brutally murdered her brother, his wife, and other family members in a gritty southwestern town.
Billy Blanks
A pastor bumps into an old trainer and begins boxing after his wife retires from MMA fighting.
