When you see the power and effectiveness of the TJJ you will be amazed and a interesting thing might happen. You will ask yourself 'how come I never learned this stuff before' and that quickly will become 'wait, I already know that technique' and evolve into 'I already know that, in fact I probably always did' and finally 'I thought of that first'.Well you didn't know it, your didn't think of it first and you never learned it until I just taught you. But in only a few months after reading this book and watching the video the word will indeed start to spread across the globe and millions of BJJ and Martial Arts Students will indeed think they already knew it and forget who 'invented' it all.I do ask that you try to remember that the greatest ideas and inventions are always the 'simplest and most effective' and when people see them, they always say 'why didn't' someone think of that before', and that is what is going to happen with TJJ. It is so effective, easy to learn and easy to teach, everyone will think they actually knew it before or thought of it themselves and many of you will in fact develop new and even better techniques.All I ask is that somewhere in the back of your mind you file the thought. Grandmaster Ted Gambordella developed TJJ...T-Shirt Jiu Jitsu and tell your students. And when you see the Gamboria...the most effective control technique in TJJ please call it the Gamboria...not something else.Thank You for learning TJJ from its originator.Grandmaster Ted Gambordella
Pat Burleson "Martial Arts Legend""I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to be a part of America's classic pioneer martial arts movement of the 60's. Now with World Black Belt the possibilities for Martial Arts are endless."Pat is acknowledged at the "grandfather" of open tournament fighting in America, having won numerous national titles before retiring from competition in 1966. Mr. Burleson holds the highest American Tae Kwon-do black belt ranking from Jhoon Rhee. As a fighter he was the 1962 East Coast Championships runner-up, the 1963 Southwest Championships runner-up, and a participant in the first World Karate Championships in Chicago in 1963. In 1964 Mr. Burleson won the inaugural United States National Karate Championships in Washington, D.C. and in 1965 became the Texas State Grand Champion and Southwest Karate Grand Champion.Following several other victories in 1965 & 1966, at the All American Open Championships in Oklahoma City and the United States Championships, on Dallas, he retired.In addition to his success on the tournament circuit, Mr. Burleson also taught special classes for airline flight attendants; federal riot control squads, and women's task forces in rape prevention.Also a highly regarded referee Burleson received 12 Outstanding Officiating awards from tournament promoters and was a member of the original rules committee for the state of Texas.In 1965 Mr. Burleson launched the Texas State Karate Championships and Tournament of Champions, the first in karate to invite only champions of other tournaments to compete. Named to Who's who in the Martial Arts in 1975, Burleson also appeared in the film Black Belt Jones.Currently Mr. Burleson is adding jujitsu to his martial arts resume and is a motivational speaker and president of YES, (Youth Enrichment Skills) Program of America, a behavioral program for the students in the Texas public school system. Visit his official website KarateUSA.com
Reproduced from the September issue of Martial Arts Professional Magazine.1959. Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. Alaska became the 49th state. The movie Ben Hur set box office records. The first Super Bowl was still eight long years away and a small, South Korean army officer's demonstration at the University of Texas birthed a revolution in the largely unknown and mysterious Asian martial arts.In the crowd that witnessed Jhoon Rhee that day was a young Texan named Allen Steen whose fascination and ensuing love for the martial arts would lead him to establish one of the first dynasties in American karate. He was a pioneering champion, one of the original martial arts businessmen, and an internationally known instructor and coach. Today Mr. Steen is 75 years old and still keeps up with the martial arts world. He sat down with one of his original black belts and Martial Arts Success's Keith D. Yates to reflect on what he's seen in five-plus decades of training.Q: You've had a number of firsts in the martial arts in America, from being Jhoon Rhee's first black belt, to opening the first commercial karate school in the state of Texas, to being the father of Texas "blood 'n' guts" karate. You have seen the martial arts evolve tremendously over the years. Let's start with that demo at UT in 1959.STEEN: Well, it was at the Student Union building but they couldn't call it martial arts or karate so it was going to be a demonstration of stretching. That's why the football and baseball and track teams were all required to be there. I was on the track team and like everyone else, was just there for the fun of it. Even though Mr. Rhee was doing full splits and everything no one seemed to paying much attention and everyone was talking among themselves so he finally had enough and stepped up to the microphone and asked for the biggest athlete to come down front. That kind of quieted everyone down and the football players looked over at coach Darrell Royal, who had just started at UT, and he just shook his head "no." So Rhee says, alright, give me the two biggest. Royal is still shaking his head. Now Rhee says he wants the THREE biggest and then he says something like, "and no babies,"-his english wasn't that good at the time. So finally Darrell Royal nods his head and the two Talbert brothers from Texas City and another kid go down. These guys were huge, Diron Talbert, in fact, went on to play for the Washington Redskins.
This book is for serious Mixed Martial Artists who want to stay fit and powerful, and who don't have the time or ability to go to the Health Club. You can tone and build your muscles using Stretch Tubing, or resistance bands, and you can exercise anywhere anytime.In this little book you will find 50 exercises specifically for Mixed Martial Artists to build muscle and power in your Kicks, Stance, Punches and BlocksGrandmaster Ted Gambordella
