Ad Santel Brings The Pain

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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

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шок, тым. 2

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З Choque, тым. 2 (Amazon affiliate link), Раберта Pedreira падымае гісторыю бразільскага джыу-джытсу ў тым, што ён лічыць свой росквіт у Бразіліі, 1950 – 1960. Акрамя таго, Карлас і Helio Грэйс, некалькі іншых акадэмій, такія як Асвальда Тадэй-х, Былі таксама квітнеючы. Дзюдо набірае папулярнасць, але не пераадолець джыу-джытсу ў папулярнасці. Vale Tudo matches were at the height

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шок, Volume 1

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I recently read Choque: The Untold Story of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil, Volume 1 by Roberto Pedreira (Amazon affiliate link), which tells an alternate story of BJJ’s beginnings than we have been told by in various interviews with members of the Gracie Family. “шок” translates toshockingin Brazilian Portuguese. While Pedreira exhaustively researches and cites primary sources, mostly Brazilian newspapers,

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Wrestler Beats Jujitsu Man

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On St. Patrick’s Day, Сакавік 17, 1905, Вуліца. 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

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Прафесар Ямасита прыязджае ў Амерыку ў 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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How To Spread A Martial Art

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3 times over the last 150 гадоў, 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

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Theodore Roosevelt on Judo

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Theodore Roosevelt served as the twenty-sixth President of the United States from 1901 для 1909. TR is famous for the “Strenuous Life”. He practiced boxing and wrestling through his twenties and thirties. What is not as widely known is that he practiced Judo around 1904, when he was in his mid-40s. Roosevelt would eventually earn a brown belt in Judo. Yoshiaki

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Што робіць ранг чорнага пояса Mean?

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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

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The Day American Martial Arts Changed

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Лістапада 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

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Create Something Great After 4 Гады

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Распаўсюджаны міф у баявых мастацтвах, што майстар даследаванні для 40 гадоў, развіваецца амаль звышчалавечае разуменне самаабароны, стварае дасканалую сістэму і аказваецца пакаленняў бесконкурентным байцоў. Да папулярнасці змешаных адзінаборстваў, many of the magazines such as Black Belt were full of stories about which martial art was the best. If you polled

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