Great story. I'm pretty sure Carl would have been referring to a phone call with Rex Applegate, as Fairbairn died in 1961, well before Carl got...
Your first arguement against pullups was that a large man COULD NOT do them. I posted a video of a very large man doing 55(fifty five) pullups. Is...
So it is possible for a human(not me) to squat 600 lbs or more, bench press 500 lbs, but not be able to lift 250-300 lbs because its body weight?...
Yes, all the techniques from the katame no kata(kesa gatame,kata gatame,kami shiho gatame, yoko shiho gatame,kuzure kami shiho gatame,kata juji...
"An area conspicuously lacking in the Kodokan syllabus of technique (up to this point in its evolution, Judo techniques were almost entirely...
Why do most BJJ histories ignore the groundwork and grappling that was in Judo prior to the Fusen-ryu challenges? The Katame no kate was the 2nd...
Kirk, you are of course correct about the drop step. let me re-phrase my statement. Carl Cestari took the drop step from Dempsey's book,...
The drop step is not part of the Fairbairn legacy, it was Carl's contribution to combatives. You will not find any reference to the drop step in...
Yudansha means black belt or dan grade, it doesn't specify a particular dan rank, like shodan.
George Sylvain and John Therien, Jean-Yves Theriault's original coaches. I mean look what they could do with a blue belt in jiu jitsu!:cool:
Standard rant. Bill Wolfe and Modern Defendo(as shown in some of the clips you posted), have nothing to do with Underwod's Defendo. Bill Wolfe and...
http://www.cqbservices.com/ Defendo has nothing to do with Defendu.
I enjoyed the first two or three books, then found John Rain to become too influenced by David Grossman's On Killing. If you look in the back of...
After 15 years of hard core jiu jitsu, I went to NJ for the seminars that became the Fairbairn and O'Neill seminar DVDs. I learned a lot about...
Defendo is Canadian, although Bill Underwood was born in Britain. Defendu, by W.E. Fairbairn was developed in Shanghai. Both have British born...
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