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Posts about martial arts history.
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. These claims are
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
En fælles myte i kampsport er, at en master-studier for 40 år, udvikler en næsten overmenneskelig forståelse af selvforsvar, skaber den perfekte system, og viser sig generationer af de bedste kæmpere. Forud for den popularitet blandet kampsport, many of the magazines such as Black Belt were full of stories about which martial art was the best. If you polled
I was watching the UFC Fight Night prelims on Facebook Saturday night. The fights all ended in before time expired. One ended in the third round, one in the second round and three in the first round. One of the things that I notice was that none of the fighters in the first four fights were attacking from guard. They
Da jeg var barn vokser op i St. Louis, den eneste kampkunst, jeg havde hørt om var Karate. Taekwondo blev anset Korean Karate. Jeg vidste ikke, om nogen af de kæmper kunst på det tidspunkt. Men, KPLR Channel 11 ran a series of films on Saturdays for a month featuring Mr. Motion, played by Peter Lorre.
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
Jeg har brugt meget tid på at studere forskellige rangsystemer. Rangsystemet ser ud til at være et moderne koncept startet af Dr.. Jigaro Kano, en underviser, der ønskede et klassificeringssystem for at adskille studerende. I løbet af det næste århundrede, adskillige stilarter adopterede bælterangsystemet, men det eneste fællestræk var, at bæltesystemerne betød, hvad skaberen besluttede
While watching the Facebook Prelims for UFC 161, I observed a trend that happens often in mixed martial arts competition. 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.
Theodore Roosevelt served as the twenty-sixth President of the United States from 1901 til 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
Huo Yuanjia was a real life hero, der inspirerede mytiske historier om hans liv. His life and expoloits have been the basis of films starring Bruce Lee and Jet Li. Den virkelige Huo Yuanjia besejrede mange udenlandske krigere, da Kina blev offer for andre lande i slutningen af 1800'erne og begyndelsen af 1900'erne. His exploits were a source of pride at a time,