Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Posts about martial arts history.
Ad Santel gained his reputation as a dangerous catch wrestler from his frequent bouts with judoka from Japan during the 1910s and a story from the second George Hackenschmidt training camp for the Frank Gotch rematch. According to legend, Frank Gotch paid Santel, a skilled submission wrestler, $5,000.00 to injure Hackenschmidt’s knee in training. While this story may or may
Met Choque, Vol. 2 (Amazon geaffilieerde skakel), Roberto Pedreira tel die storie van Brasiliaanse Jiu-Jitsu op in wat hy beskou as sy bloeityd in Brasilië, 1950 – 1960. Behalwe Carlos en Helio Gracie, verskeie ander akademies, soos Oswaldo Fadda s'n, was ook floreer. Judo het gewild geword, maar het nie Jiu-Jitsu in gewildheid oorkom nie. Vale Tudo-wedstryde was op die hoogtepunt
I recently read Choque: The Untold Story of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil, Volume 1 by Roberto Pedreira (Amazon geaffilieerde skakel), which tells an alternate story of BJJ’s beginnings than we have been told by in various interviews with members of the Gracie Family. “Skok” translates to “shocking” in Brazilian Portuguese. While Pedreira exhaustively researches and cites primary sources, mostly Brazilian newspapers,
On St. Patrick’s Day, Maart 17, 1905, St. Louis sports fans were treated to a special match between local professional wrestler George Baptiste and traveling Japanese jujitsu practitioner Arata Suzuki. Baptiste delighted local fans by quickly defeating Suzuki in two straight falls. George Baptiste was a professional wrestler and all-around athlete, whose powerful swimming saved many St. Louisans from drowning
Sam Hill, 'n Seattle-sakeman, gebring Professor Yoshiaki Yamashita na die Verenigde State in 1902. Professor Yamashita bedoel om te help versprei Dr. Jigoro Kano se relatief nuwe gevegskuns van Judo. Meegaande Professor Yamashita was sy student Mitsuyo Maeda. Maeda sou gaan oor Carlos Gracie te leer in Brasilië. The Gracies modified the techniques into the art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Over
3 times over the last 150 jaar, martial artists created more modern versions of older martial arts. Unlike many prior systems, the innovators of these modern martial arts chose to share this information with outsiders and spread their arts around the world. Jigoro Kano’s dissemination of Judo is the best case study for how to develop and spread a martial
Theodore Roosevelt served as the twenty-sixth President of the United States from 1901 te 1909. TR is famous for the “Strawwe Life”. Hy beoefen boks en stoei deur sy twintigs en dertigs. What is not as widely known is that he practiced Judo around 1904, toe hy in sy middel-40s. Roosevelt would eventually earn a brown belt in Judo. Yoshiaki
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
Op November 12, 1993 at the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado, a fourth degree black belt in the little known art of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu (commonly called Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in the United States) cut through an eight man style versus style martial arts tournament. Royce Gracie would turn the martial arts world on its head. After his walk through the
A common myth in martial arts is that a master studies for 40 jaar, develops an almost superhuman understanding of self-defense, creates the perfect system and turns out generations of unbeatable fighters. Prior to the popularity of mixed martial arts, many of the magazines such as Black Belt were full of stories about which martial art was the best. If you polled