czwartek, 1 października 2020

The greatest figures in martial arts - part 1

 

Helio Garcie born on 1 October 1913 in Brazil. He had got two brothers, but Helio was much weaker and worse built than them. Of this reason he decided to create new martial art style less based on strength. He become a creator of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu one of the most famous fighting style of our time. Helio died on 29 January 2009

Mas Oyama he has practiced and tried many martial arts such as boxing, karate or judo.  He also created a training program, when practitioner spend three years in solitude, outside of civilization just by training. Mas in his life beat 50 bulls and 270 opponents. Most of fights didn’t even go for one minute. In 1953 Oyama opened his first dojo in Tokyo. He create a new karate style- karate kyokushin. After this Mas decided to perform a three hundred man kumite in three days. He beat 300 people in 3 days. Sadly, Mas Oyama (a non-smoker) died of lung cancer in 1994.


https://usabudo.com/mas-oyama/

https://www.liveabout.com/top-most-influential-martial-artists-2307765

3 komentarze:

  1. Did he fight with bulls (male cows) or is this a mistake?

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  2. That's very impressive, especially the second one. He had to train a lot to achieve this perfection in fights. I think this post would be a lot better if you wrote a little bit more about the styles and what distinguishes them from other martial arts styles.

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  3. it's really interesting that Helio Gracie created a fighting style in which his smaller build became his strength, not his weakness. I'd really like to know more about his martial art.

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