Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
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
Med Choque, Vol. 2 (Amazon affiliate länk), Roberto Pedreira plockar upp historien om brasilianska Jiu-Jitsu i det han anser vara sin glansdag i Brasilien, 1950 – 1960. Förutom Carlos och Helio Gracie, flera andra akademier, som Oswaldo Fadda, blomstrade också. Judo blev allt populärare men hade inte övervunnit Jiu-Jitsu i popularitet. Vale Tudo-matcher var på höjden
Jag läste nyligen Choque: Den otroliga historien om Jiu-Jitsu i Brasilien, Volume 1 av Roberto Pedreira (Amazon affiliate länk), som berättar en alternativ historia om BJJs början än vad vi har fått höra av i olika intervjuer med medlemmar i Gracie Family. “Chock” översätter till “upprörande” på brasiliansk portugisisk. Medan Pedreira uttömmande undersöker och citerar primära källor, mestadels brasilianska tidningar,
On St. Patrick’s Day, Mars 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, en Seattle affärsman, förde professor Yoshiaki Yamashita till USA i 1902. Professor Yamashita tänkt att hjälpa till att sprida Dr. Jigoro Kano relativt nya kampsporten Judo. Kompletterande Professor Yamashita var hans elev Mitsuyo Maeda. Maeda skulle gå på att undervisa Carlos Gracie i Brasilien. The Gracies modified the techniques into the art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Over
3 times over the last 150 år, 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 till 1909. TR is famous for the “Ansträngande Life”. Han övade boxning och brottning genom tjugoårsåldern och trettiotalet. 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
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
På 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
En vanlig myt i kampsporter är att en masterstudier för 40 år, utvecklar en nästan övermänsklig förståelse för självförsvar, skapar det perfekta systemet och visar sig generationer av oslagbara fighters. Innan populariteten av 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