Tag: Stair Martial Arts

I was recently honored to be a guest on The Martial Culture Podcast. Coach Rene Driefuss and Matt Peters were excellent hosts. I truly enjoyed my time on their podcast. We spoke about one of my books, Gotch vs. Hack: The Matches That Made and Destroyed Legitimate American Professional Wrestling in particular. Mar sin féin, we spoke in general about the history

On St. Patrick’s Day, Márta 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 ó báthadh

Cuireadh fógra i gcló i mí Eanáir 16, 1921 eagrán den Naomh. Louis Post-Seoladh ag fógairt cúrsa post-orduithe ar Jujitsu ó Capt. Ailean Smith. Capt. Rugadh Smith in Albain ar dtús ach bhí spéis aige le léirithe Jujitsu Seapánach (iarbhír Judo) chonaic sé i Sasana. Thaistil Smith go dtí an tSeapáin le cuideachta agus d'fhoghlaim Judo a bhaint amach 1ú céim

Tháinig Yukio Tani go Sasana ag tús an 20ú hAois. Scaip Tani ju-jitsu trí pháirt a ghlacadh i gcluichí dúshláin i gcoinne wrestlers gairmiúla. Mar chuid de na cluichí dúshláin seo, Léirigh Tani ju-jitsu. Trí rath na ndúshlán agus na léirithe seo, Chonaic Tani go leor mac léinn ag clárú chun oiliúint a fháil leis. Bhain duine de na mic léinn Béarla is fearr le Tani úsáid as an stáitse

With Choque, Vol. 2 (Nasc cleamhnaithe Amazon), Roberto Pedreira picks up the story of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in what he considers its heyday in Brazil, 1950 – 1960. Besides Carlos and Helio Gracie, several other academies, such as Oswaldo Fadda’s, were also thriving. Judo was gaining in popularity but had not overcome Jiu-Jitsu in popularity. Vale Tudo matches were at the height

Léigh mé Choque le déanaí: An Scéal Untold de Jiu-Jitsu sa Bhrasaíl, Imleabhar 1 le Roberto Pedreira (Nasc cleamhnaithe Amazon), a insíonn scéal eile faoi thús BJJ ná mar a dúradh linn in agallaimh éagsúla le baill den teaghlach Gracie. “Turraing” aistríonn go “suaite” i bPortaingéilis na Brasaíle. Cé go ndéanann Pedreira taighde iomlán agus luann sé foinsí príomhúla, nuachtáin Brasaíle den chuid is mó,