There aren’t many things Tony Schiena isn’t good at.
After becoming the heavyweight karate world champion aged 25, Schiena joined the African intelligence service and went on to become a major player in the private security sector.
These days the South African directs action movies, making use of all his skills as karate expert and experience as a real-life spy.
“At the risk of sounding cliché it was a way of life,” Schiena told Sport360. “The ultimate aim of the art of karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.”