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bjj leg locks and Oswaldo Fadda

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  • 07-02-2012 7:34am
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    carmex
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭


    I thought it was interest article that raise a lot of questions is bjj still pretty much anti leg locks (what people opinions) and kind of show the Gracies didn't invented any thing new as Fadda never train with the Graices yet done same thing.

    hope people enjoy the read. love to hear people opinions on this article

    thanks carmex
    Fadda was born in Bento Ribeiro, a suburb in the north of Rio de Janeiro. At the age of seventeen, while in the Brazilian Marines he began to study jiu jitsu under Luis França, a black belt under Mitsuyo Maeda. Maeda was a expert judōka with direct lineage to the founder of judo, Kanō Jigorō, who had travelled around the world as a prize fighter while also teaching the locals self defence techniques. After settling in Belém in 1917, Maeda had continued to teach jiu jitsu to a select group of students (including França and Carlos Gracie).

    By 1942, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu was becoming well known in Brazil, although the prices of tuition were too high for most residents of Rio. Fadda had received his own black belt from França and soon started teaching jiu jitsu free of charge. aiming to spread the art of jiu-jitsu to the poorer folk.

    Fadda managed to open his own academy on the outskirts of Rio on January 27, 1950.He and his students began specialising in the use of footlocks, an often ignored part of the jiu-jitsu curriculum. The next year, Fadda felt confident that his school was ready for the next step and issued a challenge to the Gracies through the media: "We wish to challenge the Gracies, we respect them like the formidable adversaries they are but we do not fear them. We have 20 pupils ready for the dispute".


    Hélio Gracie accepted the challenge and the two teams fought at Gracie's academy. Fadda's team emerged victorious, making good use of their knowledge of footlocks, in which the opposition was lacking. José Guimarães one of Fadda's pupils choked Gracie's "Leonidas" unconscious. Oswaldo himself became the first man to beat Hélio in competition. After Hélio Gracie in a interview to news paper said "All you need is one Fadda to show that Jiu-Jitsu is not the Gracie's privilege".

    http://www.bjjheroes.com/bjj-fighters/oswaldo-fadda-facts-and-bio

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswaldo_Fadda


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