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A decade of inter-disciplinary competitions

last ten / fifteen years, the world of martial arts and combat sports undergoing a revolution with the emergence of inter-disciplinary competitions:

In 1993, Rorion Gracie, Helio Gracie master's son, created the United States championship ultimate fighting (Ultimate Fighting Championship ") where his brother Royce Gracie was able to demonstrate the effectiveness of stunning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Rorion Gracie


Helio Gracie


Royce Gracie

That same year, 1993, the master-founder of Karate Seidokaikan, Kazuyoshi Ishii, Japan hosted the first K-1 Grand Prix, a tournament where every sport could be measured percussion (Karate, Kempo, Kung Fu, kickboxing, etc.).

Kazuyoshi Ishii

Seidokaikan

Andy Hug champion Seidokaikan

More recently, in 1998, Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nayan Abu Dhabi to set up a Submission Wrestling Championship (Abu Dhabi Submission Wrestling World Championship ") where all sports grip (that is to say the Olympic Wrestling, Judo, Sambo, Jiu-Jitsu different, etc.) could in turn compete.

Sheik Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nayan

New champions emerged and it has finally become possible to compare:
- firstly, the value of combatants until there confined in their respective disciplines;
- and, secondly, the effectiveness of different martial disciplines in competition with the most liberal rules possible. But the idea

compare the champions beyond the borders of their disciplines can be greatly expanded, extended over a period much larger than a decade:
- first on the period covering the late nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century since the advent of the Modern Olympic Games,
- then back to the origin of the sport in antiquity ...

This book invites you to a journey through time.