Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
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. For the most part, my kicks tended to land on the body not the head. Porén, high kicks are still beautiful to behold and with several spectacular head
En decembro de 8, 1903, Sam Langford fought the reigning lightweight boxing champion in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to fighting Langford, most boxing experts felt Joe Gans could not be beaten in a legitimate bout. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Gans was able to break the color barrier by winning the World Lightweight Boxing Championship. Sam Langford is often considered
We always taught students not to punch to the head during self-defense training. Aínda, 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 Xefe de Detectives William Desmond creou un pouco de misterio en xaneiro 1903, cando intentou escapar e casar. Era para ser a primeira voda a 45-year-old de Desmond. Xefe Desmond foi casar con Hannah McLaughlin, a filla dun constructor local. A parella estaba de lúa de mel no sur de California, antes de regresar a San. Louis
O luns, Decembro 15, 1902, St. Assistant Chief Louis Policía de detectives James H. Smith se aposentou do departamento de policía para tomar unha posición na industria do carbón. Xefe de Detectives William Desmond intentou convencer Smith para estar, pero el decidiu xubilarse a partir da forza como o seu cuadraxésimo aniversario abordado. Smith compilou un rexistro louvável como asistente de Desmond.
H.G. Wells escribiu a historia das cousas a vir, que foi transformado nun filme en 1936. A película abre durante o Nadal 1940 en Everytown (obviamente Londres) dereito antes da eclosión da guerra. A guerra dura case 30 anos antes “os militares da Forza Aérea” liderado por John Cabal, un antigo habitante da 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 “The Butcher” Poole, Morrissey decided to defend his title against John C. Heenan, “the Benicia Boy”. “Old Smoke” Morrissey defeated Heenan in the October 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. Movemento (1937) on July 27, 1937. Peter Lorre would play Mr. Moto seven more times for Twentieth Century – Fox. Mr. Moto disfrázase de vendedor ambulante e
O luns, Decembro 13, 1920, E “Estrangulador” Lewis gañou o primeiro dos seis World Heavyweight Wrestling Championships de Joe Stecher. The fact he won the title from his biggest rival and business enemy must have been particularly satisfying. Un ano antes de este xogo, Stecher e Lewis enfrontáronse nun partido que durou máis de tres horas. Lewis cometeu un erro mental