starring Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas as Jonathan Cabot, an Olympic gymnast who combines Jonathan Cabot's gymnastic ability with martial arts to enter a deadly competition in a fictional country, Parmistan

Gymkata is a 1985 martial arts film starring Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas as Jonathan Cabot, an Olympic gymnast who combines Jonathan Cabot's gymnastic ability with martial arts to enter a deadly competition in a fictional country, Parmistan.

a 1985 martial arts film , directed by Robert Clousebased on Dan Tyler Moore's 1956 short story The Terrible Game

Gymkata is a 1985 martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse, based on Dan Tyler Moore's 1956 short story The Terrible Game.

a new kind of martial arts film

As I’m sure you’ve gathered by now, Gymkata was a feeble attempt to create a new kind of martial arts film, starring an actor who has all the personality of a Pommel Horse.

gymnastics/martial arts hybrid

Today’s feature is Gymkata, a peculiar gymnastics/martial arts hybrid movie that has become a beloved good-bad classic.

an obscure 1985 martial arts film starring real-life gymnast Kurt Thomas

I did some research, and from my discovery, Gymkata is actually an obscure 1985 martial arts film starring real-life gymnast Kurt Thomas, and is directed by the man who gave us arguably the most notable Bruce Lee film of all time, Enter the Dragon.

the martial arts form — known as “gymkata” a blend of karate and Kurt Thomas’s own special brand of impressive floor exercise and tumbling techniques

To prepare, Kurt Thomas must endure the most rigorous training regiment ever devised by man, so that Kurt Thomas may create the martial arts form known as “gymkata” — a blend of karate and Kurt Thomas’s own special brand of impressive floor exercise and tumbling techniques.

pure, unfiltered madness that feels like the result of a 9-year-old�s sugar high fueling a whacked out dream that reimagines Enter the Dragon as a backyard sandbox epic filled with ninja action figures patrolling the wildest playground obstacle course imaginable

Gymkata is pure, unfiltered madness that feels like the result of a 9-year-old�s sugar high fueling a whacked out dream that reimagines Enter the Dragon as a backyard sandbox epic filled with ninja action figures patrolling the wildest playground obstacle course imaginable.

one of the most carefully scripted and brooding commentaries on American foreign policy during the Reagan years

"Extremely reminiscent of cold war sleepers like "Gorky Park" and "Reds", Gymkata is one of the most carefully scripted and brooding commentaries on American foreign policy during the Reagan years.

like a genre of porn that has to deal with gloryholes in gym bathrooms

Gymkata sounds like a genre of porn that has to deal with gloryholes in gym bathrooms.