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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. For det meste, my kicks tended to land on the body not the head. However, high kicks are still beautiful to behold and with several spectacular head
Desember 8, 1903, Sam Langford kjempet regjerende lett boksing mester i hjembyen Boston, Massachusetts. Før slåss Langford, de fleste bokseeksperter følte Joe Gans kunne ikke bli slått i en legitim bout. Født i 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. Ennå, 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 skapte litt av et mysterium i januar 1903, da han forsøkte å snike seg av gårde og gifte seg. Det var å være den 45 år gamle Desmond første ekteskap. Chief Desmond var å gifte seg med Hannah McLaughlin, datter av en lokal byggmester. Paret var å bryllupsreise i Sør-California før retur til St. Louis
På mandag, Desember 15, 1902, St. Louis Politiet Assistant Chief of Detectives James H. Smith pensjonert fra politiet til å ta en posisjon i kullindustrien. Chief of Detectives William Desmond forsøkt å overbevise Smith å bo, men han bestemte seg for å trekke seg tilbake fra den kraft som hans førtiende fødselsdag nærmet. Smith samlet en prisverdig rekord som Desmond assistent.
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 “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. Moto (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
På mandag, Desember 13, 1920, Og “Strangler” Lewis vant det første av seks World Heavyweight Wrestling Championships fra Joe Stecher. The fact he won the title from his biggest rival and business enemy must have been particularly satisfying. Et år før denne kampen, Stecher og Lewis møttes i en kamp som varte i over tre timer. Lewis gjorde en mental feil i