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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. Đối với hầu hết các phần, my kicks tended to land on the body not the head. Tuy nhiên, high kicks are still beautiful to behold and with several spectacular head
Ngày 8, 1903, Sam Langford fought the reigning lightweight boxing champion in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to fighting Langford, hầu hết các chuyên gia quyền anh cảm thấy Joe Gans không thể bị đánh bại trong một trận chính đáng. Sinh ra tại Baltimore, Maryland, Gans đã có thể phá vỡ các rào cản màu bằng chiến thắng World Championship Lightweight Boxing. Sam Langford is often considered
We always taught students not to punch to the head during self-defense training. Nhưng, 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 gần đây đã viết một bài viết về hưu là một phát minh hiện đại và từ bẩn. Tôi đồng ý với quan điểm của mình với một sự báo trước. Vào các mùa khác nhau trong cuộc sống của chúng tôi, đó là thời gian để cho đi điều gì đó để làm cho không gian cho những thứ mới. Để làm tốt những điều mới, we sometimes have to let go of the old. When I was in
St. Louis Chánh thám tử William Desmond tạo ra một chút bí ẩn trong tháng 1903, when he attempted to sneak off and get married. Đó chính là cuộc hôn nhân đầu tiên của Desmond 45 tuổi. Trưởng Desmond là cưới Hannah McLaughlin, con gái của một nhà xây dựng tại địa phương. The couple was to honeymoon in Southern California before returning to St. Louis
Hôm thứ Hai, Tháng mười hai 15, 1902, St. Louis Police Assistant Chief of Detectives James H. Smith retired from the police department to take a position in the coal industry. Chief of Detectives William Desmond attempted to convince Smith to stay but he decided to retire from the force as his fortieth birthday approached. Smith compiled a commendable record as Desmond’s Assistant.
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” Đến, 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, Ông. Vận động (1937) on July 27, 1937. Peter Lorre would play Mr. Moto seven more times for Twentieth Century – Fox. Ông. Moto disguises himself as a peddler and
Hôm thứ Hai, Tháng mười hai 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