Reminds me of the times my Dad and I used to watch PKA/full-contact Karate matches back in the day, when the sport was still pretty much in its infancy in the West. Back when the godfathers of full-contact MA -- Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, Denis "The Terminator" Alexio, Jean-Yves "The Iceman" Thériault, "Guy Whose First Name I Can't Recall For the Life Of Me" Van der Snoot, to name a few-- were laying the groundwork for the rise of kickboxing, sport Karate, and eventually MMA. Not sure if I ever watched Bill "Superfoot" Wallace run his game; I think that by the early- or mid-80s, Wallace's best days were well behind him, and he had played out his string, hung up his spurs, and started branching out in other directions. Training gear, for instance; if you were an MA enthusiast in the '80s, you probably recall print ads for stretching machines showing Wallace sitting in them doing a 180-degree side-split (see also: Chuck Norris "Action Jeans" from Century Martial Arts) teaching, doing seminars, selling training videos on VHS tapes, even turning up in a couple of martial arts B-movies. There wasn't much money, never mind fan adoration, endorsement deals, and the like back then. I think Urquidez was one of the relative few making serious money...which for him involved competing in Japan, racking up titles and becoming one of the few-- if not **only**-- Westerners to build a devoted fan following in the Far East. Back then, they were mostly in it for the challenge of pitting themselves against other fighters...and not much else.
Now I'm a bit upset, I developed mikido in 92' unaware it was your father's style. Now I want the name given back in completion and would like to give you my adaptation to my style of the form Do you want it?
My favorite quote: "Hess gets excited, uh, I think would be a way to understate that..."
Reminds me of the times my Dad and I used to watch PKA/full-contact Karate matches back in the day, when the sport was still pretty much in its infancy in the West. Back when the godfathers of full-contact MA -- Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, Denis "The Terminator" Alexio, Jean-Yves "The Iceman" Thériault, "Guy Whose First Name I Can't Recall For the Life Of Me" Van der Snoot, to name a few-- were laying the groundwork for the rise of kickboxing, sport Karate, and eventually MMA.
Not sure if I ever watched Bill "Superfoot" Wallace run his game; I think that by the early- or mid-80s, Wallace's best days were well behind him, and he had played out his string, hung up his spurs, and started branching out in other directions. Training gear, for instance; if you were an MA enthusiast in the '80s, you probably recall print ads for stretching machines showing Wallace sitting in them doing a 180-degree side-split (see also: Chuck Norris "Action Jeans" from Century Martial Arts) teaching, doing seminars, selling training videos on VHS tapes, even turning up in a couple of martial arts B-movies.
There wasn't much money, never mind fan adoration, endorsement deals, and the like back then. I think Urquidez was one of the relative few making serious money...which for him involved competing in Japan, racking up titles and becoming one of the few-- if not **only**-- Westerners to build a devoted fan following in the Far East.
Back then, they were mostly in it for the challenge of pitting themselves against other fighters...and not much else.
i love this fight at like halfway through you can see hess go into super mode and just unleashes on the guy
Now I'm a bit upset,
I developed mikido in 92' unaware it was your father's style.
Now I want the name given back in completion
and would like to give you my adaptation to my style of the form
Do you want it?
That's my dad
Your dad deserves better than being in the ring with that child killer. You dad has skills.
Your dad was a champ always was always will be
Danggggg...
I was born in1981