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As a taekwondo stylist, I spent my first few years of training trying to develop high kicks. I could throw crescent kicks head height pretty easily and even an occasional side kick. Ar gyfer y rhan fwyaf, my kicks tended to land on the body not the head. Fodd bynnag,, high kicks are still beautiful to behold and with several spectacular head
Ar Ragfyr 8, 1903, Ymladdodd Sam Langford y pencampwr bocsio pwysau ysgafn teyrnasu yn ei dref enedigol o Boston, Massachusetts. Cyn ymladd Langford, Teimlai'r rhan fwyaf o arbenigwyr bocsio na allai Joe Gans yn cael ei guro mewn pwl dilys. Fe'i ganed yn Baltimore, Maryland, Gans yn gallu torri'r rhwystr lliw drwy ennill Pencampwriaeth Bocsio Pwysau Ysgafn y Byd. Sam Langford is often considered
We always taught students not to punch to the head during self-defense training. Yet, we did teach students to punch to head height on pads, when teaching striking. After watching some of mixed martial arts legend Bas Rutten’s fights from Pancrase, it struck me what we were doing wrong. Pancrase banned closed fists to the head. Rutten, an accomplished muay
Michael Hyatt recently wrote an article about retirement being a modern invention and dirty word. I agree with his views with one caveat. At different seasons in our life, it is time to let somethings go to make space for new things. To do new things well, we sometimes have to let go of the old. When I was in
St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond created a bit of a mystery in January 1903, pan geisiodd sleifio i ffwrdd a phriodi. It was to be the 45-year-old Desmond’s first marriage. Chief Desmond was to marry Hannah McLaughlin, the daughter of a local builder. The couple was to honeymoon in Southern California before returning to St. Louis
Ar ddydd Llun, Rhagfyr 15, 1902, St. Prif Cynorthwyol Heddlu Louis o Ditectifs James H. Ymddeolodd Smith o adran heddlu i gymryd swydd yn y diwydiant glo. Ceisiodd Pennaeth Ditectifs William Desmond i argyhoeddi Smith i aros, ond penderfynodd ymddeol o'r heddlu fel ei ben-blwydd yn ddeugain cysylltu. Llunio Smith cofnod clodwiw fel Cynorthwy-ydd Desmond yn.
H.G. Wells wrote the story of Things to Come, which was turned into a film in 1936. The film opens during Christmas 1940 in Everytown (obviously London) right before the outbreak of war. The war lasts almost thirty years before “the Airmen” led by John Cabal, a former resident of Everytown, leads the survivors to victory over the remaining war
John Morrissey claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship in a controversial bout with Yankee Sullivan in October 1853. After beating a murder charge for his participation in the murder of Bill “Y Butcher” Poole, Penderfynodd Morrissey i amddiffyn ei deitl yn erbyn John C. Heenan, “y Benicia Boy”. “Hen Mwg” Morrissey drechu Heenan yn y Hydref 1858 bout held in
The first Mr. Moto film starring Peter Lorre as Japanese jujitsu expert Kentaro Moto sees Mr. Moto tracking down a smuggling ring leader. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation released Think Fast, Mr. Cynnig (1937) on July 27, 1937. Peter Lorre would play Mr. Moto seven more times for Twentieth Century – Fox. Mr. Moto disguises himself as a peddler and
Ar ddydd Llun, Rhagfyr 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis won the first of six World Heavyweight Wrestling Championships from Joe Stecher. The fact he won the title from his biggest rival and business enemy must have been particularly satisfying. A year before this match, Stecher and Lewis met in a match lasting over three hours. Lewis made a mental error in