When it comes to learning how to do anything in life, we usually have two options. You either study what other people have come up with, which is what most of us do, or you come up with your own method. At some point, everything we could learn or do was new. Someone had to be the creator, so maybe it’s not so strange to think that even a few celebrities have invented their own methods and ways of doing things out there.
10. Chuck Norris has his own fighting style
If you’re a martial arts fan, you have a wide range of styles and techniques to choose from. We all know karate thanks to 80s movies, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s taekwondo, judo, krav maga, muay thai, aikido, kung fu, and dozens more. Aikido dates back to the 1920s, when Shaolin monks began developing their kung fu fighting style over 1,000 years ago. So the tradition is old, but it’s constantly evolving. So much so that even world-famous actor and early internet meme Chuck Norris has also developed his own martial arts style.
Norris developed a variant of taekwondo that he called Chun Kuk Do, or the Chuck Norris System. It combines traditional taekwondo with several other styles, including tang soo do, jujitsu, and karate. The official organization that teaches the art, the United Martial Arts Federation, was founded in 1990, although Norris had been developing not only the fighting style but the philosophy that went with it for many years.
As with other styles, there is a ranking system based on colored belts. The highest rank is black belt, itself divided into 10 degrees. Only four people have a 10th degree black belt, including Chuck Norris himself. There are about 100 schools around the world that teach this method.
Of course, Norris isn't the only actor to have created his own fighting style. Bruce Lee famously created Jeet Kune Do, while Jackie Chan developed the so-called drunken fighting style for his Drunken Master films. Even Keanu Reeves is credited with developing a new style of Gun-Fu, a method borrowed from Hong Kong action films that combines traditional fighting with gunplay, for his films.about John Wick .
9. Nic Cage invented acting style
Few actors can match Nic Cage’s on-screen energy. And behind the scenes, few have matched his near-mythical presence. He’s gone from Oscar winner to meme to cult hero whose legacy is a wild mix of entertaining, enigmatic, and unforgettable films. Even if you don’t like him, you have to admit that there aren’t many people like him in Hollywood.
Part of what makes Nicolas Cage so enigmatic is how he approaches his craft. After all, how many actors can claim to have their own acting style? Cage describes his acting as something called Nouveau Shamanic. Just don’t ask him what that means.
Cage says he once read a book called The Actor's Way, which helped him understand that early witch doctors and shamans were actors of sorts. He also describes it as a way to heighten the imagination to create a performance that doesn't feel fake. In other words, he approaches acting as if he's trying to turn the lies of his performance into truth. To make you believe it, almost by making himself believe it.
8. Hank Williams III invented a musical subgenre
Inventing new genres of music isn't the easiest thing in the world these days. Most music will end up in a subgenre, but it can still be something unique. Take, for example, cattle prod, a musical subgenre credited to Hank Williams III, grandson of the legendary Hank Williams.
According to Williams, the core of Cattle is what you get when you mix three very different styles in one place. Country music is where it all starts, which seems to make sense for a man named Hank Williams, but then he mixes it with heavy metal. It’s an unusual, but not unheard of combination, to be sure. But the icing on the cake is the cattle auction. Put it all together and you get Hank Williams III’s 3 Bar Ranch and songs that are definitely right up your alley.
7. Jimi Hendrix invented his own timing
Speaking of musicians, Jimi Hendrix continues to prove himself as a musical innovator long after his death. In this case, it is about how he used time. Most of us who have even a basic understanding of music understand rhythm as keeping a beat. This allows us to synchronize the playing of music. The metronome is one of the easiest ways to understand rhythm, and it is how many people learn to play the piano and guitar, using a device to control their rhythm.
All of this goes out the window when listening to Jimi Hendrix. While not every song will strictly follow a perfectly timed rhythm, Hendrix managed to create an incredibly relaxed playing style that could jump up and down in terms of timing, speed, and rhythm. In terms of precision, a music teacher would call Hendrix's playing poor and way off from what should be set in time. But has anyone ever said that about Hendrix? The man is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
Instead, Hendrix makes his rhythm more organic. In fact, it was the imperfection that made it so perfect, and it may actually sound better to our ears because it's not so rigid.
6. Terrence Howard invented his own mathematics
When the Marvel Cinematic Universe first launched, Terrence Howard was in "Iron Man" as Tony Stark's good friend and future War Machine James Rhodes. After that first film, Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle. But what happened to Howard? He said that Robert Downey Jr. edged him out by getting a raise at the expense of Howard's own salary. At the time, there were rumors that Howard was expecting the same salary as Downey Jr., so who knows for sure? Especially when we also know that Terrence Howard invented his own math, which is a little fishy.
As he stated in an interview, Howard does not believe that one times one equals one. He believes that it is impossible and must equal two. The reason for this is that "one times one equals two, because the square root of four is two, so what is the square root of two? It must be one, but we are told that there are two, and that cannot be."
The square root of two is not two, but that is neither here nor there. It sounds like he is joking, but the man is deadly serious in that he does not believe that one times one equals one, due to a clear and fundamental misunderstanding of what the "one" part of the equation means. It must equal two. He has developed his own symbolic language, naturally called Terriology, to agree with this, and sincerely believes that we will soon stop teaching children this nonsense.
5. Stanley Unwin invented his own language
Modern audiences may not be very familiar with Stanley Unwin, but the British comedian was beloved for many years before his death in 2002. One of the things that made him so remarkable was the almost incomprehensible ease with which he could speak rapidly in apparently complete gibberish.
Unwin developed a language known as Unwinese. It had a perfect tempo and rhythm, and to someone not paying attention, it would probably sound like normal, everyday conversation. But listen closely, and you will hear that the man is mixing nonsense with irrelevant words, but with a delivery that makes it look like genuine, meaningful speech.
You can still find plenty of videos of him giving or even conducting interviews in character that are oddly easy to follow, even when half the words don't make sense.
4. Diamond Dallas Page invented his own yoga
Many professional wrestlers' post-wrestling careers can be as surprising as their on-screen personas. Stars like Dwayne Johnson, John Cena, and Dave Bautista became Hollywood stars, while others like Jesse Ventura and Glenn "Kane" Jacobs went into politics. And Diamond Dallas Page? He invented his own style of yoga.
Also known as DDP, it’s fitting that Page’s yoga is called DDP Yoga. Endorsed by musician and horror film director Rob Zombie, DDP Yoga is a form of “intense” yoga that focuses on building strength and burning calories while improving flexibility. So, yoga, but intense.
There are traditional yoga poses, as well as sports rehabilitation therapy and gymnastics, designed for training that does not put stress on the joints. The program has more than 300 workouts and many positive reviews.
3. Zarifa Jan, an illiterate poet, invented her own alphabet to write poetry
When it comes to inspiring stories, you can’t do better than Zarifa Jan. Now in her late 60s, Jan lives in India and has never learned to read or write. But that hasn’t stopped her from having the heart of a poet. So what does a poet do when she can’t write poetry? She wrote it anyway.
Unable to write in her native language or any other, Jan created a language that allowed her to put her thoughts down on paper. Jan said she discovered the need to write poetry shortly after her marriage, when she went to fetch water and was simply overwhelmed and in a trance-like state. She came to her senses and he had a poem to share.
What she created was a language of circles. Although her children had learned to read and write, they spoke English and Urdu, and her poems came to her in Kashmiri, a little-spoken language that no one in the family knew. So she began creating her own symbols to archive her thoughts, and while to others they may appear as nothing more than repeating circles, Jan claims she can read them, essentially creating her own alphabet.
People accused her of lying and that the circles could not possibly have any meaning. She simply memorized the poems and recited them that way. However, her family and other community members believe that she did what she claimed, and another poet pointed out that he had never heard of another poet being able to memorize and recite his entire collection.
2. The Queen accidentally invented a new breed of dog
These days, the royal family doesn't make the news for many positive reasons. Maybe the queen just needs to get back to her roots, like celebrating anniversaries or accidentally inventing new dog breeds. People love stories like that.
The Queen is famous for her small army of corgis, and if the internet is to be believed, people love corgis. But what’s less well known is that not all of the Queen’s corgis are actually corgis. Some of the dogs the Queen has owned over the years have been the breed she introduced to the world—the slightly less majestic dorgi.
Princess Margaret once had a dog of her own named Pipkin. Pipkin was a dachshund, more commonly known as a sausage dog, although the Queen probably never used that term. One day, Pipkin met one of the Queen's corgis, and nature being nature, they produced a litter of chubby little creatures that everyone agreed were adorable. So they kept breeding them. According to the American Kennel Club, they are not an officially recognized breed because they only recognize purebreds, but they have become popular over the years.
1. Tony Iommi is widely known as the inventor of heavy metal.
We said earlier that it is difficult to create a new genre of music, and that is true. But this is today, and every genre had to start somewhere. Heavy metal, for example, started with the legendary guitarist Tony Iommi after he lost the tips of his fingers.
Iommi was working in a factory in 1965 when a machine broke his fingers and tore off the tips of two of them. He had just gotten serious about music and was afraid the accident would ruin his future. So, with his self-made fingertips, he began tweaking his approach to guitar playing to see what he could do. He used lighter strings and relied more on power chords, eliminating tuning. The result was what he called “aggressive, raw, and thick.” He brought that sound to Black Sabbath and launched the entire genre of heavy metal.
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