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The Role of Watches in Epic Action Adventure

Images: Danjaq LLC, Sony Pictures Entertainment Historical Perspective  If you spend anytime watching celebrity news you will have noticed that pretty much every celebrity is now seen wearing an expensive wrist watch.  More often than not these celebrities are being paid to wear a specific brand of watch - so called "Brand Ambassadors".   These brand and product placements do not just occur at photo shoots and award ceremonies but also within movies, where watch sales can be directly linked to viewers wanting to share the values and roles of their movie heroes. Nothing new Watch brands have been giving their products to celebrities to wear since the beginning of the last century and it is a strategy that has paid off handsomely for some brands. Superlative Marketing, Officially Certified It can be said that many of the really big names in watchmaking would not have the prestige they currently enjoy if they had not taken direct action back in the 1960s and

Knives and Knife Fighting

“Of all the aspects of close quarter combat there is none filled with more nonsense than knife fighting. " - Morgan, K.R.M.. Bridge of Souls (p. 408). MadBagus Books. Kindle Edition.  There has been a brief pause in my blog posts as I had been due to follow up on my post on close quarter unarmed combat with an article on knives and knife based combat but, after considerable thought, I have decided not to provide such information.   In the United Kingdom, at the time of writing, knife crime has become such a problem for society that I do not feel comfortable providing information which could be read by individuals and used to injure innocent people.  #knife #fight #combat