Origin Stories: Fact or Fiction?

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When I first started training in martial arts in 1995, the stories tied to the founding of most martial arts were pretty fantastic with superhuman feats of physical prowess and fighting ability attributed to their founders. Whether Kung Fu, Karate or Judo, the founder took the skills learned in previous martial arts, modified it and defeated everyone. Aquestes reivindicacions ho són

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Professor Yamashita arriba a Amèrica en 1902

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Sam Hill, un home de negocis de Seattle, portat professor Yoshiaki Yamashita als Estats Units en 1902. Professor Yamashita intenció d'ajudar a difondre el Dr. Relativament nou art marcial d'Jigoro Kano de Judo. Acompanyant el professor Yamashita va ser el seu alumne Mitsuyo Maeda. Maeda aniria a ensenyar Carlos Gracie al Brasil. Els Gràcies modificar les tècniques en l'art de Jiu-Jitsu. Over

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Create Something Great After 4 Anys

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Un mite comú en les arts marcials és que uns estudis de màster per 40 any, desenvolupa una comprensió gairebé sobrehumana de la legítima defensa, crea el sistema perfecte i resulta generacions de combatents imbatibles. Abans de la popularitat de les arts marcials mixtes, 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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Així vaig descobrir Jujitsu

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Quan jo era un nen que va créixer a St. Louis, l'únic art marcial que jo havia sentit parlar era Karate. Taekwondo es va considerar Karate Coreà. Jo no sabia res de les arts d'adherència en aquest punt. Però, KPLR Channel 11 ran a series of films on Saturdays for a month featuring Mr. Moviment, played by Peter Lorre.

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How To Spread A Martial Art

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3 times over the last 150 any, 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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Què fa el rang de Cinturó Negre Mitjana?

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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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Deixar de perseguir Presentacions

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Mentre observa el Facebook Preliminars de UFC 161, He observat una tendència que passa sovint en la competència d'arts marcials mixtes. One of the competitors would get a dominant position but would sacrifice it to chase a submission. He caught the other competitor in close to ten submissions but the other man escaped all ten and one a close split decision.

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Theodore Roosevelt en Judo

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Theodore Roosevelt served as the twenty-sixth President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. TR is famous for the “La vida extenuant”. Va practicar la boxa i la lluita lliure a través dels seus anys vint i trenta. 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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