Kyuzo mifune biography of williams

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Happy 65th Birthday Bryan "Beardy" Leung! Happy 72nd Birthday Muhammad Ali!! In , Kano promoted Mifune to the rank of kudan 9th dan. In , he wrote his classic book, The Canon Of Judo , still a remarkable exposition of judo history, philosophy, and technical description. This extremely valuable old 8mm footage of Mifune as a 10th dan was converted to DVD and released in It features him going through all the basics of Judo including his explanation as to what is the essence of Judo.

Plus, see his famous Kuki Nage! Mifune left, with Kano. Kyuzo Mifune, a fifth Dan teacher of the Kodokan. We noticed in one corner of the room a group of thirteen young fellows drinking sake, while in an adjoining apartment there were an elderly couple and some other visitors taking food. The members of the first-named group were seen to be putting their heads together at frequent intervals and to be busily whispering, at the same time casting glances in our direction.

I did not take any special notice of what was going on, nor did I suspect that they had any designs upon us. Mifune and I went on chatting over our drinks. Presently one of the rascals approached us, calmly picked up my overcoat and hat, and tried to make off with them under our very noses. Of course I remonstrated, when the thief, evidently bent on picking a quarrel, insisted that the coat and hat were his property.

A warm altercation arose, in the midst of which he assumed a threatening attitude, and was speedily joined by half a dozen of his comrades from the other side of the room. There being no alternative, Mr. Mifune took a hand in the game. He avoided unnecessary roughness, but in less than a minute he had them all down with a succession of swift blows.

Then the rest of the gang set upon me, but I knocked them down one after the other, and the affair was over in less than three minutes.

Kyuzo mifune biography of williams

As our victims regained consciousness they lost no time in making themselves scarce, but we detained one of them, and forced him to confess. He admitted that their object had been to extort money from us by intimidation. They had been misled by our good clothes and had imagined that we would be easy prey. Unlike many Japanese of small measurements he was not stocky or muscular.

People outside the mar- tial arts were politely incredulous when informed that this little white- haired old man was the best in the world in the rough-and-tumble con- tact sport of judo. Mifune, de- scribed without demurrer as a genius, had passed beyond even this stage to the point where he dominated his op- ponents with pure principle. Because of his small size Mifune- judan was never tempted to overcome his opponents with weight or muscle.

By refining the principles of gentle giving-way and of deflecting the force of attack he made it impossible for anyone to throw him.