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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
With Choque, Vol. 2 (Amazon affiliate link), 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
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. “Choque” translates to “shocking” in Brazilian Portuguese. While Pedreira exhaustively researches and cites primary sources, mostly Brazilian newspapers,
On St. Patrick’s Day, Itinera 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
Hill Sam, a Seattle negotiator, Donec in eros in Yamashita adduxit Yoshiaki 1902. Professor Yamashita Dr ordinatur auxilium expandit. Jigoro Kano est in comparatione novus ars militaris Judo. Et cum esset in studio Professor Yamashita Mitsuyo Maeda. Maeda essent usque docere Carlos inpatientia in Brazil. Mutatio in arte et peritia Gracies Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Over
3 times over the last 150 annis, 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 ut 1909. TR est clarus “Strenuus vita”. Viceni et triginta per exercitatione pugilatum luctamina. Quid est quod non omnibus notum est, quia non fecit circa Judo 1904, dum in medium 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
Novembres 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
Communis est magister rei militaris studia Fabula 40 annis, defensionem hoste intellectus divina prope, et facit, fit perfecta ratio generationis insuperabile pugnatores. Ante mixta bellicis artibus popularis, many of the magazines such as Black Belt were full of stories about which martial art was the best. If you polled