Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Sam McVey müde von der Mangel an Gelegenheit für schwarze Kämpfer in den Vereinigten Staaten in den frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. McVey beschlossen, für Europa zu verlassen 1907, wo er bis gekämpft 1911. McVey kämpfte in Australien für weitere drei Jahre vor der Rückkehr in die Vereinigten Staaten. Diese kurze Highlight Film aus Frankreich 1911 mit “Battling” Jim Johnson shows
August 31, 1901, Nachtwächter William Doherty entdeckt Willis Garner Einbruch in das Büro des Schickle, Harrison und Howard Iron Company an 912 S. Twelfth Street in St. Louis, Missouri. Die Eisen Unternehmen beschäftigt Garner, , die einen Hammer auf den Kopf warf Doherty. The hammer missed its target but the confusion allowed Garner to jump out the window and make his
Mord über New York (1940) ist einer der späteren Ausgaben des Charlie Chan-Serie für Twentieth Century Fox Productions. In diesem Film, Inspektor Chan ist die Unterstützung seines alten Freundes von Scotland Yard, Inspektor Drake, finden eine Gruppe von Saboteuren. Die Spione wollen einige Test-Luft Handwerk in New York zu sabotieren. Inspector Drake is tracing Paul Narvo, who leads
Am Oktober 6, 1890, lokalen Friseure Luther Duncan und Bob Henderson auf trat, um N. 11th Street, einen Streit beizulegen. Dieser Bereich der St. Louis war bekannt als “Tief Morgan”. “Tief Morgan” was home to bordello, Flop-Häuser und die härtesten Afroamerikaner Salon in der Stadt, Starkes’ Saloon. Sowohl Duncan und Henderson waren schwarz Barbiere, who worked in
On December 3, 1896, three men entered the Home Brewery Office in St. Louis at around 2:30 p.m. Cashier Robert Hofferkamp approached the men. The men produced revolvers and told Hofferkamp and his assistant to throw up their hands. The men took $10,000 from the office in what would be a multi-million dollar heist today. The robbers tied up and
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. Meistens, my kicks tended to land on the body not the head. Jedoch, high kicks are still beautiful to behold and with several spectacular head
On December 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. Noch, 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 Kripochef William Desmond hat ein bisschen ein Rätsel im Januar 1903, when he attempted to sneak off and get married. Es war um die 45-jährige Desmond erste Ehe sein. Vorsitzender Desmond war Hannah McLaughlin heiraten, die Tochter eines lokalen Baumeister. Das Paar war in Südkalifornien Flitterwochen vor der Rückkehr nach St. Louis