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An Interview With Richard Plowden

Article by: Alexander Reyes

1. When did you start Martial Arts and why? I began training at 13 years old on October 27, 1973. My brother worked at a bank and there was a Taekwondo school across the street. The instructor had his account at the bank and talked my brother into training. My dad told my brother ‘take [...]

Jon Bluming Q&A

Article by: WR Mann

Jon Bluming is a leader of Europe’s International Budo Kai Kan Foundation. Born in Holland 1933, he is a veteran of two tours in the infantry in Korea. After receiving 3-dan in judo in Holland, he went to Japan in 1959, where he lived until 1961. His instructors included Donn Draeger, Mas Oyama, Kenji Kurosaki, [...]

Lunch With Renzo Gracie

Article by: WR Mann

We’ve been trying to interview Renzo Gracie for the past eight months but because of his busy schedule; preparing for fights, traveling, fighting, giving seminars and running his Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Academy New York City, it’s been very difficult. Finally I got a break when Renzo invited me for lunch at his house in New Jersey. [...]