Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
The series of the Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland were probably the strongest films in the Charlie Chan series. Sidney Toler made several good films also but eventually the series would become low-budget “B” films produced by Monogram Pictures. Charlie Chan Secret (1936) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values are better
I have spent a lot of time studying different rank systems. The rank system seems to be a modern concept started by Dr. Jigaro Kano, an educator, who wanted a system of grading to separate students. Over the next century, numerous styles adopted the belt rank system but the only commonality was the belt systems meant what the creator decided
On Thursday, June 12, 1919, Earl Hunter and Charles Bergman, a parolee and ex-convict, held up the Meramec Trust Company shortly after it opened at 07:00 a.m. The robbery was not well planned and even more poorly executed. The corner of Virginia Avenue and Meramec Street was one of the busiest street car blocks in the city. The robbers had
One of the things that always impressed me about the Gracies is how they were able to turn out generation after generation of top-notch instructors. After reading a number of articles about their original belt system, etc., I started to adapt some of their methods with our own students. Once the student reaches Green Belt, we allow them to start
Mens du gjør forskning, Jeg fant dette bildet av Manassa Mauler trening for hans 4 juli, 1919 tittel kamp med Jess Willard, World Heavyweight Boxing Champions. Willard had knocked out the great Jack Johnson in 1915 to become champion. Willard var en kjempe av en mann på seks’06” and 235 pounds. He posed a threat to anyone based on size alone. However,
My great grandfather Parker was the victim of one of the largest natural disasters to hit Cape Girardeau, MO, den 1949 tornado. It hit the city on Saturday, May 21, 1949 på 06:54 p.m. Av 7:00 pm, Parker Zimmerman was dead at 74 år. I always found my great grandfather interesting because he led such a varied life
While watching the Facebook Prelims for UFC 161, I observed a trend that happens often in mixed martial arts competition. One of the competitors would get a dominant position but would sacrifice it to chase a submission. He caught the other competitor in close to ten submissions but the other man escaped all ten and one a close split decision.
A number of the old Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes movies have recently become available on DVDs and streaming. The Universal series, is well done for a “B” film serie. This film would have warmed the audience up for the main feature like Double Indemnity (1944). In the The Scarlet Claw (1944), Sherlock Holmes, played by Rathbone, is in Quebec,
William Dillon was responding to reports about the murder of Officer McKenna by the Lewis Brothers. Dillon mente at Lewis Brothers, som var auto og wire tyver, var ansvarlig for McKenna død. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. Han observerte to av Lewis-brødrene gå inn i garasjen i Forden. Dillon gikk inn i garasjen
Before Friday, April 7, 1916 was over, the Lewis brothers would kill two St. Louis Police Officers, John McKenna and William Dillon. McKenna was the first to fall, when he interrupted the brothers attempts to steal wire, en verdifull vare under første verdenskrig. Dillon would be killed investigating McKenna’s murder. McKenna fikk i oppdrag å lete etter ledningstyvene,