Professor Yamashita Kommer til Amerika i 1902

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Sam Hill, a Seattle businessman, brought Professor Yoshiaki Yamashita to the United States in 1902. Professor Yamashita intended to help spread Dr. Jigoro Kano’s relatively new martial art of Judo. Accompanying Professor Yamashita was his student Mitsuyo Maeda. Maeda would go on to teach Carlos Gracie in Brazil. The Gracies modified the techniques into the art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Over

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William Muldoon, Physical Culture Legend

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Første gang jeg leste om William Muldoon i en biografi om John L. Sullivan, den siste nakne knoke tungvekt. Sullivan ushered in gloved boxing by refusing to take part in any more bare knuckle bouts. Den siste store nakne knoke bout ble utkjempet av Sullivan mot Jake Kilrain i 1889. Odds were against Sullivan, a binge drinker indulging heavily between bouts. Han var

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