Legends
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Anderson da Silva |
Anderson da Silva, born April 14, 1975, is a Brazilian Muay Thai champion and mixed martial artist (MMA) and the current UFC middleweight champion. |
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Bas Rutten |
Sebastiaan "Bas" Rutten (born February 24, 1965) is a retired Dutch-American mixed martial artist (MMA) and kickboxer. |
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Bruce Lee |
Bruce Lee (Lee Jun Fan, 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was a Chinese American and Hong Kong actor, martial artist, philosopher, film director, screenwriter, practitioner of Wing Chun and founder of |
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Choi Yong Sool |
According to recorded facts Choi is brought out as young Korean boy, whose strong connection to Hapkido happened during 1904 to 1986. |
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Helio Gracie |
In the early 1900's, a Japanese jiu-jitsu instructor by the name of Esai Maeda went to the state of Para in Northern Brazil. There he befriended Gastao Gracie, an influential businessman, who helped the Japanese get established. To show his gratitude, Maeda, also known as "Count Koma," offered to teach the traditional Japanese jiu-jitsu to Gastao's oldest son, Carlos. |
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Masaaki Hatsumi |
Masaaki Hatsumi, born 2 December 1931) is the founder and current Soke, or Grandmaster, of the Bujinkan Organization, currently residing and teaching in the city of Noda, Chiba, Japan. He is also a doctor of orthopedics, specializing in the mending of bones |
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Masakatsu Funaki |
Masaharu Funaki, best known under his stage name Masakatsu Funaki is a Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler who wrestled in New Japan Pro Wrestling, PWFG, as well as the UWF. He is currently signed to a one-year contract with All Japan Pro Wrestling. He is also the co-founder of Pancrase, one of the first mixed martial arts organizations and non-rehearsed shoot wrestling promotions (following five years after the inception of Shooto but predating America's Ultimate Fighting Championship). |
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Morihei Ueshiba |
The founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, was born on December 14, 1883, to a farming family in an area of the Wakayama Prefecture now known as Tanabe. Among five children, he was the only son. From his father Yoroku, he inherited a samurai's determination and interest in public affairs, and from his mother an intense interest in religion, poetry and art. In his early childhood, Morihei was rather weak and sickly, which led to his preference of staying indoors to read books instead of playing outside. |
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Richard Dimitri |
Richard Dimitri is considered to be one of the world's leading authorities on personal protection and hand to hand combat. |
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Sveneric Bogsater |
Sveneric Bogsater is born in Sweden and now lives in The Netherlands with his wife Mariette. At the age of 15 he started with karate. After 10 years he took up ju-jutsu because he was looking for the true roots of martial arts, which is fighting. In 1983 he started training ninjutsu (now bujinkan) with Bo Munthe. He has not stopped training bujinkan since. In bujinkan he has found the true meaning of martial arts. |
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Toshitsugu Takamatsu |
Toshitsugu Takamatsu (高松 寿嗣, Takamatsu Toshitsugu) was born on 10 March 1889 (the 23rd year of Meiji) in Akashi, Hyogo province, Japan and died on 2 April 1972.[1] He was a martial artist who taught a |
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William E. Fairbairn |
William E. Fairbairn was born in 1885 and died in 1960. |