MAR
10
Posting, talking, reading, evaluating
From PokerStrategy.com
By now you can find him playing no-limit on the limits from $1.000 to $5.000. PokerStrategy: You probably played skat and "Doppelkopf" before you joined PokerStrategy right? You can only win stupid non-cash prizes like a goose and there are a lot of elderly people playing. I remember a time where my brother, a friend of my brother and I played skat every day after school. I signed up, passed the quiz and started (as usual back then) playing fixed limit. After 40 days I was forced to play FL...
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MAR
07
Coshocton native still getting a kick out of martial arts
From Coshocton Tribune
16th and Orange streets, Grant immediately enlisted in the Korean War after his 1950 high school graduation. Grant met, then Worthington Mayor Jim Lorimer, who would become the founder of the Arnold Sports Festival. Former martial arts master Doug Grant stands with Charis Nawrocki, who appeared in his new self defense film, "Sgt. Grant's Penumbra: Surviving the Edge of Darkness, Defend Yourself," at the 2008 Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus.
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FEB
23
Local martial artists head to Arkansas jiu-jitsu event
From Shreveport Times
The "art of softness", is a Japanese martial art consisting primarily of grappling techniques. Prior to that time, these skills had names such as: short sword grappling, grappling, body art, softness, art of harmony, catching hand and even the "way of softness. However, Rondon and a bunch of his training partners are going back to their martial arts roots today. The ground game is Rondon's specialty in MMA, but this event posed a unique training challenge. While Rondon has been seeking to...
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FEB
18
A Woman’s Self-Defence for Women
From martialhistory.com
I should be introduced to Miss Frances Weste as the typical "Jujutsu Girl," I confess to no sense of pleasant anticipation, but rather to a feeling that I had before me something in the nature of a call to duty with which I had no choice but to fall in. "There - standing on the right - that young girl with fair hair." I saw them release themselves from one another's grips on the wrists, throat, body, hair, arms, and legs, by the simple process of "touches," or knocks on nerves here and...
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JAN
30
GLAMOROUS BODYGUARD KILLED IN CARJACKING
From UK Express
Front and Back Pages, E-Edition and Back Issues... Loginova, pictured left, ran an agency for female bodyguards, some trained by the former KGB, to give discreet protection to Moscow s billionaires and their wives and mistresses. It seems ironic that a country which once ruled its people with a rod of iron should now be ruled by people who have no inclination to take seriously the fight against crime.
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