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Bruce Lee In 1959 a short, skinny, bespectacled 18-year-old kid from Hong Kong traveled to America and declared himself to be John Wayne, James Dean, Charles Atlas and the guy who kicked your butt in junior high...
Chuck Norris actor, Martial Artist
Jean Claude Van Dame actor, Martial artist
Superfoot Bill Wallace, Actor - Martial Artist
Steven Seagal, Actor-Martial Artist
Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee the "Father of American Tae Kwon Do", the Jhoon Rhee Tae Kwon Do is one of the most recognized and respected martial arts systems in the World. Master Rhee officially introduced TKD in Haiti 1972
Angelo Parisi 11 times European champion 1980 Gold medal ( Moscow)
Yamashita with Kurt Roosevelt (son of US President Theodore Roosevelt) When Yoshitsugu Yamashita died in 1935, Jigoro Kano awarded him with the first ever 10th dan for his contributions to Judo. Within three months at Kodokan, he was awarded Sho-dan. He pledged to randori with 10,000 people a year. In reality he could practice with 9,617 people, still a miraculous amount. By the age of 21, Yamashita had been promoted to Yon-dan. He was one of Kodokan's Four Guardians along with Shiro Saigo, Tsune-jiro Tomita, Sakujiro Yokoyama. It is said that Yoshitsugu Yamashita invented Hane-goshi. |
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Ruska (188 cm, 115 kg) from Holland was one of the greatest post-WWII judokas.
He won a gold medal at the 1967 and 1971 World Judo Championship and silver at
the 1969 open weight class. Also at the 1972 Olympics held in Munich he won two
golds, in each the open and heavyweight classes. He won the heavyweight division
by defeating Glahn of W. Germany in 1 min 43 sec with Tai-otoshi. However, in
the open weight class Ruska lost his 3rd round match to Kusnezov (USSR) by
ura-nage. Through repercharge, Ruska beat Kusnezov by Yokoshiho-gatame, and won
the gold medal
,Judo
7th Dan