Gerald Ford vs. Teddy Roosevelt, no holds barred MMA fight. Who wins?
Despite his portrayal as a clumsy oaf, Gerald Ford was almost certainly the best athlete to ever serve in the White House. He was a legendary college football player who won two national championships at the University of Michigan, and was MVP of the team in his senior year. Ford turned down contract offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, but turned down a career in the NFL in order to attend law school. Ford was a avid skier until his 80s and continued swimming regularly for exercise into his 90s, and he would have had a notable size advantage over Theodore Roosevelt.
However, if someone genuinely knows what they are doing during a mixed martial arts fight, they are going to be very difficult to defeat -- even against an opponent who might be a superior athlete in every other sense. That has been a lesson learned throughout the growth of MMA as a mainstream sport dating back to Royce Gracie easily handling much bigger opponents in the early UFC with his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Or Rickson Gracie calmly controlling and systematically dominating literally everyone he fought in Japan, no matter who Pride FC threw at him.
Theodore Roosevelt would be giving up quite a bit of size and athletic ability against Gerald Ford, but TR was an early student of martial arts. As President -- in the White House itself -- Roosevelt kept active with wrestling (always the best foundation for a mixed martial artist) and boxing. And he was among the first Americans to actually train in jiu jitsu and judo, receiving lessons directly from the legendary Yamashita Yoshiaki. Because of that experience, I think Theodore Roosevelt probably would have given any of his fellow Presidents a rough day at the office if they had an MMA fight, no matter how big or strong or athletic his opponent might be.
In today’s blog post, I am going to talk about the BJJ versus Luta Livre rivalry.
Both grappling arts originated in Brazil during the early 20th century and have since been at odds with each other, each claiming to be the superior fighting system.
However, the roots of this rivalry run deeper than just martial arts techniques and strategies.
The rivalry between Luta Livre and BJJ has been…
Internal movement is much more real than it seems. Vision and scale are widely appreciated and are often confused with impact and meaning.
As a kid I've learnt through my gut-intolerance that a subtle movement of the wrong liquid or substance could collapse my entire physiological system. My strong and agile body could crumple and lose all vitality. This morning I read how micro and unnoticeable particles of glass that were inhaled over years, killed one of my favorite philosophers, B.Spinoza. His monumental ideas about nature and god finished with a fresh breath of glassy air.
I don't think that Tai Chi or Yoga Masters are resistant to kicks and knife attacks in a street fight but they can incredibly resist, retain and control the internal movement of the breath and maybe the movement of the mind. Internal and external deserve careful consideration and are never a simple matter of black and white, Bruce Lee and Rickson Gracie are interesting examples of athletes who translated the knowledge of the internal into the practical necessities of the external and vice versa.
The question "What is internal movement'? Has been a root to the philosophy of so many important fields: medicine, neurology, biology, nutrition, etc.
Overlooking it in the field of physical movement can lead to a very shallow practice in the long run, one that will always end up in an empty pursuit of confirmation and goal-addiction...
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O Professor Legionário Iranilson Lima foi DIPLOMADO faixa preta 6º Grau no dia 19 de maio de 2021 por uma das maiores Instituições do Jiu Jitsu Mundial a JJGF - Jiu Jitsu Global Federation, diploma foi assinado pela lenda do Jiu Jitsu filho do Grande Mestre Hélio Gracie o mestre Rickson Gracie.
E no dia 09 de dezembro de 2023 foi DIPLOMADO PELA FJJRIO - Federação de Jiu Jitsu do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, a primeira Federação de Jiu Jitsu do Brasil Fundada pelo Grão Mestre Hélio Gracie. .Sendo um dos poucos do Estado do Rio Grande que teve essa grande HONRARIA, a entrega foi pela Presidente da FJJRIO Kenya Gracie. O professor Legionário 01 Iranilson Lima confessou está muito orgulhoso desse DIPLOMA, para o nosso Estado ter um reconhecimento desse é uma GRANDE HONRARIA, no Mundo do Jiu Jitsu ter um potiguar nesta escada de graduações do nosso JIU JITSU..
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Not sure if I’ve posted this before but someone uploaded the entirety of the Vale Tudo Japan 1994 to YouTube so I’m sharing that with you. Historic MMA event. Promotion founded by Satoru Sayama, the same guy who found Shooto. featuring Rickson Gracie, Kazuhiro Kusayanagi, Naoki Sakurada, Kenji Kawaguchi, and more. At just over an hour, it’s a great watch!
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*Running Time => 6 hrs. and 45 mins.*From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracie’s stunning career with the larger history of the Gracie family dynasty and the founding of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, showing how the connection between mind and body can be harnessed for success both inside and outside the ring.Undefeated from the late 1970s through his final fight in the Tokyo Dome in 2000, Rickson Gracie amassed hundreds of victories in the street, on the mat, at the beach, and in the ring. He has joined the pantheon that includes Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Jackie Chan as one of the most famous martial artists of the twentieth century. Jiu-Jitsu, the fighting style developed and pioneered by his family, has become one of the world’s most prominent martial arts, and Vale Tudo, the “anything goes” style of Brazilian street fighting over which the Gracies had a monopoly, was an
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