Choque: The Untold Story of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil 1856-1949 (Volume 1) (67 page)

28.
Diario Nacional
15-11-28.

29.
Diario Nacional
21-10-28.

30.
Diario Nacional
23-10-28.

31.
Diario Nacional
; 24-10-28.

32.
Diario Nacional
25-10-28.

33. As an obvious example, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is now often called BJJ. Conversely, publishers can use the longer variants when they need to fill up space and writers are free to say almost anything in order to make what they are describing seem more significant than it is. Accordingly there are many words for “fight” in the sense of an athletic contest (see glossary for examples). Writers need to be creative when what they are describing is two men punching each other, or the equivalent in grappling.

34.
Diario Nacional
20-12-28.

.

Chapter 9

1929

1.
Correio Paulistano
2-1-29.

2. Dete was Jose Detti, the “arabe” jiu-jitsu champion. Klausner was the boxer Ervin Klausner, who fought a jiu-jitsu match with Helio Gracie in 1937. Goto might have been the Goto (who fought M. de Abreu in 1928), or Yakuro Goto (who fought Detti in 1935), or the two Gotos may have been the same person.

3.
Diario Nacional
January 13, 1929.

4.
Diario Nacional
6-1-28.

5.
Diario Nacional
, 8-1-29.

6.
Diario Carioca
, 10-1-29; 16-1-29 [“
Omori pretende vir ao Rio, em busca de novos adversaries
”].

7.
Correio da da Manhã
15-1-29.

8.
Correio da Manhã
15-1-29.

9
. Diario Nacional
15-1-29.

10. Klausner (85 kilos) and Haki (85 kilos) engaged in a straight boxing match just a week before,
January 5, 1929. Klausner won by decision (
Diario Carioca
9-1-29).

11.
Correio Paulistano
17-1-29.

12.
Diario Nacional
17-1-29;
Correio Paulistano
18-1-29.

13.
O Paiz
4-7-26.

14.
Correio Paulistano
2-1-29.

15.
Correio Paulistano
25-1-29 [
“ha muito que essa luta é esperada, pois, Klausner desafiou por tres vezes ao campeão nipponico. Esta lucta deverá ser renhida, pois Klausner é o mais perigoso adversario que Omori pode enfrenta
”].

16.
Diario Nacional,
3-2-29; 17-2-29.

17.
Diario de Noticias
26-8-31.

18.
Diario de Noticias
9-9-31.

19.
Correio Paulistano
8-3-29 [“
A forte luctador Austriaco, inesperadamente, e com surpresa geral, venceu o japonez Omori no Segundo assalto. Foi um acontecimento sensacional, que para muitos parecia um sonho, e para outros uma [combinação]. O facto e que Omoir permaneceu desacordado, e Ritter recebeu as honras de ser o primeiro a vencer o ate então invicto nipponico
”]. Ritter was probably Francisco Ritter from Germany. Ritter weighed 72 kilos in a luta romana match against Hungarian Jose Magasarsky on Sunday January 24, 1932 in São Paulo and was probably not much heavier than Omori in 1929 (
Diario Nacional
23-1-32).

20.
Correio Paulistano
8-3-29.

21.
Diario Nacional
23-3-29.

22.
Correio Paulistano
18-4-29. Results are not available.

23. Carlos’ initial appearance in the pages of the
Rio newspapers concerned business and legal matters. In 1924, he was seeking official permission to undertake various “projects” (
Jornal do Brasil
3-6-24, 4-6-24, 5-6-24, 22-6-24, 16-7-24-, and 24-8-24). In 1925, with his father, he had gotten into illegal gambling [
jogos prohibidos
] at house of “
diversões
” called Ideal Prado, and was court-ordered to desist (
Gazeta de Noticias 13-5-25).
Other legal disputes followed
(Gazeta de Noticias 29-11-25; 20-1-26).
In 1927 he was evicted from a house owned by Fredrico A. Liberalli on rua General Severiano, n. 219. (
O Paiz
14-9-27). The reason was not specified, but failing to pay the rent is one of the more common.

24.
The article was reprinted in
Diario Nacional
3-3-29.

25.
Diario Nacional
3-3-29.

26.
Diario Nacional
26-4-29.

27. See chapter 1932.

28. See chapter 1932.

29.
Correio Paulistano
26-4-29.

30.
Diario Nacional
27-4-29.

31.
Diario Nacional
2-5-29.

32. Gracie 2008.

33.
Correio Paulistano
26-4-29 [“
com alguns eforços, consegui me destacar, creando, verdaderio gosto pela educação physica, e que me animou a diffundir esse meio de defesa e desenvolvimento corporal em minha patria
”].

34.
Correio Paulistano
26-4-29.

35. Gracie 2008 pp. 38-41. Carlos told journalist Jose Geraldo in 1958 that Conde Koma predicted that he (Carlos) was going to be a “
grande campeão
”.

36. The interview can be found in
Kakutou Striking Spirit,
May 1, 2002. An English translation is available at Global-Training-Report.com/helio.htm.

37. Gracie 2008, p. 39, p. 90.

38. Information about Jacyntho Ferro comes from
Diario Carioca
8-1-29, and
Diario Nacional
7-2-29; 23-2-29.

39. See chapters 10 and 19 for more about Donato Pires dos Reis.

40.
Pacotilha
8-7-22.

41.
O Paiz
10-9-29. According to
Almanak Administrativo, Mercantil e Industrial do Rio de Janeiro - 1891 a 1940
, Koma’s address was at av. São Jeronymo, 120.

42.
O Paiz
15-8-29;
Diario Carioca
17-8-29. The president of Companha Nipponica de Plantação do Brasil was the noted industrialist Henrique Hachiro Fukuhara.

.

Chapter 10

1930

1.
A Batalha
3-1-30 [“
não encontrando ainda, em sua carreira de lutador, um adversario que o subjugasse. Como elle, ainda não vencido no ‘jiu-jitsu’ e o seu adversario na luta de domingo proximo
”].

2.
A Batalha
3-1-30 [“
perfeito conhecedor daquelle arte e o unico brasileiro que fez cursos de tres annos
….”].

3. Boxers were a partial exception. From about 1922, records were maintained (Roberts, 2003, p. 142). But in the interest of marketing fights, exaggeration and fabrication were not uncommon. Obviously, once a boxer became well-known and his fights reported in the press, it was more difficult to falsify his record.

4.
Diario Nacional
3-1-30 [“
De sua performance, nada se pôde affirmer. A não ser que vem com credenciaes que diz bem alto do seu valor, de sua technica. De sua maneira de lutar, tambem pouco se conhece
”].

5.
Diario Nacional
2-1-30;
A Batalha
3-1-30;
Diario Nacional
3-1-30.

6. George’s boxer opponent may have been Gabriel Pena. Arthur may have been Omori’s student Arthur Riquetto.

7
. Diario Nacional
10-1-30 [“
ha alguns annos, quando obteve certa voga entre nós o esporte nacional do Japão. Geo Omori derrotava com facilidade todos os homens que eram postos na frente”
].

8.
Diario Nacional
10-1-30 [“
O sr. Gracie demonstrou que
a conhece perfeitamente o jiu-jitsu e esta em condições de enfrentar qualquer adversario”
].

9.
Correio Paulistano
10-1-30;
Diario Nacional
11-1-30. Toon was also spelled as Toom, Tose (
Correio Paulistano
15-1-30), Toow (
Correio Paulistano
18-1-30). His first name was also written as Johanav, Joannes, Johanes, and Jacques. According to
Correio de S. Paulo
14-4-34 he was North American.

10.
Diario Naciona
l 11-1-30; 15-1-30.

11.
Jornal do Brasil
15-1-30. [“
Em sua residencia, a rua Paysandú n. 31, falleceu, ante-hontem, a Sra. Maria Pinheiro Gracie, viuva ao commendador Pedro Gracie
”].

12.
Correio Paulistano
15-1-30.

13.
Correio Paulistano
19-1-30.

14.
Correio Paulistano
19-1-30.

15.
Correio Paulistano
19-1-30.
Correio Paulistano
18-1-30 said the rounds were 3 minutes.

16. The other reasons included prohibitions by official agencies and disputes over money or rules.

17. A bit later in 1930, George Gracie mentioned that he fought and beat a boxer in S
ã
o Paulo. However, it seems more likely that the boxer was Gabriel than Toon, since the former was part of the January 5 program that is known to have taken place.

18.
Correio Paulistano
18-5-30.

19.
Diario Paulistano
10-1-30.

20. Gracie 2008. p. 65 [“
Se você quer ter sua face esmurrada e arrebentada, seu traseiro chutado e seus braços quebrados, entre em contato com Carlos Gracie neste endereço
”].

21.
Caçula
[kid brother] was one of Helio’s nicknames. He was also occasionally called “Caxinga” and “Caxinguetê” (
Diario de Noticias
11-9-32).

22.
Correio da Manhã
21-1-30.

23.
Gazeta de Noticias
9-2-30.

24. Gracie, 2006, Gracie 2008, chp. 8. Magarian, 2001.

25.
Diario da Noite
1-4-30.

26.
Diario Carioca
15-8-30.

27.
Correio da Manhã
6-9-30 [“
Para a demonstração previa da efficiencia da technica desse luta de defesa pessoal, o sr. Donato Pires solicita uma pessoa que pretenda provar a superioridade de qualquer outro meio de luta corporal em confronto com o jiu-jitsu
”].

28.
Diario de Noticias
7-9-30 [“
O Mais admiravel meio de defesa pessoal-O Jiu-Jitsu. O ensinamento scientifico desse sport Japoneze feito pela ‘Academia de Jiu-Jitsu’”
].

29.
[
“No final de uma serie de instrucções de jiu-jiasu
[sic]
o alumno obterá as seguintes vantagens: mais forte, mais agil, maior rapidez reflexo sensitivo sensorial, maior golpe de vista, augmento de capacidade das grandes funcções (circulação e respiração) alliadas a tranquilidade absoluta, resulante da confiança propria que os golpes de jiu-jitsu nós proporcionam”
].

30. Gracie 2008 p. 56-57.

31. Gracie 2008, p. 76 [“
Carlos venceu o Campeonato Brasileiro de Amadores na categoria meio-médios e George foi o vice-campeão
”]. No sources or specifics are provided. It appears that Reila was relying on Carlos’ interview.

32.
Correio da Manhã
15-1-24;
O Imparcial
19-1-24.

33.
A Noite
5-4-27;
Jornal do Brasil
5-4-27.

34.
A Noite
11-4-27 From subsequent match ups, it appears that Donato lost to Alexi; Alexi continued to fight, while Donato did not.

35.
A Noite
28-3-27;
Diario Desportivo
1-4-27;
O Imparcial
1-4-27.