Just typing it is oddly terrifying: “Korean Taekwondo Diplomacy Foundation.” That’s GOT to be a front for a super villain.

Fight Network had a treat this week when the Korean Taekwondo Diplomacy Foundation came in to the FN studios for a demonstration with Master Tommy Chang from Black Belt World.

This video is ridiculously short (we only get a peek at a few stunts, and it’s over within 30 seconds), but it should be enough to send you crossing the street if the KTDF strolls by. We get to see a guy pull off the IRL version of Ken and Ryu’s hurricane kick, they finish off with a running backflip kick through a board THROUGH THE HEAVENS, and right in the middle is a weird blindfolded thing where it looks like a dude’s murdering a candy apple. Okay!

Here’s the clip, via Middle Easy. DIE, APPLE.

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In the best Power Rangers World Record news since Red Ranger Jason beat Bulk’s longstanding Angel Grove Youth Center weightlifting mark of 1,010 bench presses, mixed martial artist Jason David Frank — best known for his role as Green Power Ranger Tommy Oliver — has broken the Guinness World Record for “most pine boards broken in freefall.”

Seems like this would be a good time to send down a batch of Putties, but what do I know? I’m not a crazy Asian moon lady.

Jeffrey “Jay” Veenendaal, left, holds a pine board as Jason David Frank right, breaks a board while setting the “Most pine boards broken in freefall” Guiness World Record while skydiving at Skydive Spaceland Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in Rosharon. Frank broke 7 pine boards to break the existing record of 2 pine boards. (via Chron)

Here’s a picture of him receiving his official World Record certificate, with a disappointing lack of guys in foam monster costumes in the background:

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And I say HEY! What a wonderful time of day! Where you can learn to work and play, and read the first Sports On TV of 2013: the 20 greatest sports moments from PBS Kids’ ‘Arthur.’

‘Arthur’ is about the mostly-educational adventures of Arthur Read, an 8-year old aardvark who … well, learns to work and play and get along with the people in his hometown of Elwood City. Arthur started as a series of children’s books by author and illustrator Marc Brown, and eventually became a cartoon so popular it has over 1.1 million likes on Facebook and is the longest-running children’s animated series in the U.S., second behind only ‘The Simpsons’ as the longest-running animated series in the U.S. period. It’s also full of sports, and sometimes I like to write things on my comedy sports blog that my girlfriend will enjoy.

If you don’t already love ‘Arthur’ and have no interest in flipping through this list, listen to the opening theme, included below. If you can listen to the entire thing and not sing it for the rest of the day, I’ll let you off the hook.

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Welp, time to pack it up, UFC and Strikeforce, because there’s a new breed of fighter out there and his name is Zhang Feng. The 23-year old man, hailing from parts unknown (or China, if you believe him over me), recently put on a little fighting exhibition for China News, and quite frankly I am terrified of the results. It seems, if a YouTube video is to be believed, that Feng has mastered the Street Fighter art of Hadouken, or energy blast punches to us common folk.

Feng, however, calls his incredibly unique talent the “Shaolin Sunshine Hand”, which upon first glance is much weaker than the Buddhist Palm, but I suppose all mystical martial artists need to start somewhere. For this news interview, Feng lined up 15 candles, lit them and invited two journalists to punch at them and see if they could put any of the flames out. The woman could not and the man only managed to put out one flame. When it came Feng’s turn, he punched until every candle was extinguished.

Is he a great, big phony? Or is he the most powerful warrior on the face of the Earth?

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Vietnamese martial arts are taking fake fighting to a whole ‘nother level. Pretty soon this blog is going to be nothing but 10,000 word diatribes about the best and worst parts of Vovinam. (via Jessica/Lobster Mobster)

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The description under the video reads “two babies performing Taekwondo with a mother laughing in the background”, and holy shit, if you thought you knew what “babies performing Taekwondo” looked like before, you’re in for a treat.

The “Mom” starts laughing before they even start, which makes me think she’s neither of the kids’ mother and just showed up as high as possible to watch kids shootfight. I think Blue is the more accomplished fighter, because he’s got a lethal spinning back kick. Red just kinda bobs up and down in place. It’s like watching a Kimbo Slice fight, only longer and more believably violent.

When Blue figures out he can increase his knockout power by standing a little closer, look out, he’ll be unstoppable.

[h/t Ross Abel]