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just to the movement of things forward and back, moving and stopping. This is jûjutsu and our school is based on the teachings o ...

Some of the schools have been overly influenced by aikidô and have departed from the more brutal and devious combat techniques, ...

In the 1980s, the American Stephen Hayes, as a shôdan (first-degree black belt), began to publish practical guidebooks of Tôgaku ...

The ninja philosophy, or Ninpô, can best be illustrated by the words of the former sôke. Takamatsu Toshitsugu stated, “The essen ...

Ratti, Oscar, and Adele Westbrook. 1992. Secrets of the Samurai.Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle. Sharnoff, Lora. 1993. Grand Sumo ...

In Ireland, popular styles included collar-and-elbow. The name re- ferred to the initial stances taken, and in this style, almos ...

At the same time, moralists became concerned with chivalry and fair play. As a result, there were new issues about rules. Some e ...

Russian wrestler Ivan Poddubny, claimed the women’s world wrestling championship. During this period, contests often emphasized ...

pionships, and subsequently organized a National Wrestling Association. In practice, however, promoters and wrestlers continued ...

les and jumping kicks. Bronko Nagurski and “Jumping Joe” Savoldi, re- spectively, were famous practitioners of those techniques. ...

owed to the energy, or “heat,” that a charismatic wrestler such as Lou Thesz, Buddy Rogers, or Walter “Killer” Kowalski could ge ...

1987 the WWF champion Hulk Hogan was allowed to beat Andre the Gi- ant in front of a record 93,000 fans in Detroit. This enormou ...

Martial artists also were involved: Early twenty-first-century wrestlers included former world karate champion Ernest Miller and ...

Editors of Pro Wrestling Illustrated. 1999. Pro Wrestling Illustrated 1999 Wrestling Almanac and Book of Facts.Fort Washington, ...

Biographies of Outstanding Old Time Strong Men.York, PA: Strength and Health Publishing. Internet sites: Evan Ginzburg: http:// ...

ual change explains martial arts tactics and techniques to cope with situa- tions described as weak versus strong (empty versus ...

focused mind is a must in hand-to-hand combat. An unsettled mind por- tends defeat. On the other hand, a good martial artist see ...

See alsoBoxing, Chinese; China; Religion and Spiritual Development: China References Chang Naizhou. 1973. Changshi Wuji Shu(Chan ...

Written Texts: India Within Indian systems of embodied practice like martial arts, yoga, and the performing arts, knowledge is t ...

of local medieval martial heroes in the popular teyyammode of worship of northern Kerala, heroes who practiced kalarippayattu. A ...