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I will owe a great debt to the organizers of this event for evoking this feeling in, I believe, all those present –camaraderie is, after all one of the elements that make this relentless practice so rewarding.

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Besides the event itself, I would like to thank the organizers for one more reason: their help in the production of this article.

Shantung Black Tiger: A Shaolin Fighting Art of North China (New York: Weatherhill, 1976, 1997)

  • —– and Leong Cheong Cheng. One of the books he wrote is Pentjak-Silat: The Indonesian Fighting Art (1970).[29] In 1979, Draeger and his team visited the island of Sumatra. Knowing that I was enthralled by the stories of an old war buddy of his, a war correspondent in the Korean War and one of Greece’s judo pioneers regarding the martial arts, one day he brought me 3 slim tomes from a series titled “Practical Karate” filled with pictures of a middle-aged rather plump Japanese and a big, tall Westerner showing self-defense applications of karate techniques; the two men were the books’ authors and they were Masatoshi Nakayama and Donn Draeger.

    Retrieved February 22, 2010.

  • http://www.usadojo.com/biographies/donn-draeger.htm USA Dojo: Donn F. Draeger
  • "A Donn Draeger Bibliography." 2000-2005. 16 February 2012 .
  • Ancestry.com. (Courtesy of Blane Bellerud)

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    (Courtesy of International Hoplology Society)

     

    Chip Armstrong: “Donn Draeger and the koryu connection to modern hoplology”

    Chip Armstrong’s presentation

     

    Donn Draeger, Higaonna Morio and Chip Armstrong in Penang, Malaysia, 1979 (Courtesy of International Hoplology Society

    So it was only natural that the first speaker in the event would be Hunter “Chip” Armstrong, present Director of the IHS and himself a longtime practitioner of Goju-ryu karate, Tatsumi-ryu heiho and Shinkage-ryu heiho/Owarikan-ryu sojutsu.

    don draeger biography

    Ellis. 122 . And some proposed fields of study like India, the horse cultures of Central Asia, and the cattle cultures of East Africa.

     

    Alex Bennet: “Donn Draeger and Migration of the Spirit of Bu”

    Alex Bennet’s presentation

    The next speaker was Dr. Alex Bennett and introducing him is always a problem because even the briefest version of his CV has a word count that runs into the hundreds.

    U.S. 2017-01-10. Pacific Stars and Stripes, p. Four of the most recognizable names in the expatriate martial arts (and particularly classic martial arts) community, Mssrs Alex Bennet, Antony Cundy, Daniel Lee and Bradford Pomeroy with the ollaboration of professor Susumu Nagao from the Japanese Academy of Budo (Budo Gakkai) set up a twofold event on March 23 and March 24.

    Shaolin, An Introduction to Lohan Fighting Techniques (Rutland and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1979, 1991)

  • —– and Otaki Tadao. Draeger's research, theories, and concepts inspired a generation of martial art researchers and practitioners,[35] and as of 2012, many of his books remain in print.

    Draeger briefly worked in film.

    0-8317-5805-8. 5 . Donn F. Draeger: The life and times of an American martial arts pioneerBlack Belt Magazine. U.S. 1998.