event

SAC Combatives Course, Class 12

categoryCourse
calendar_month1957
location_onKodokan

Also known as

Combative Measures Instructor Class 12 · Advanced Combative Measures and Judo Training, Class 12

Description

Advanced Combative Measures and Judo Training, Class 12 of the SAC-ARDC program. Airman Lenwood Williams and Edmund Mede were selected as students for this class held at the Kodokan Judo Institute.

Part of

SAC Combatives Course

Participants (1)

  • Kotani SumiyukiInstructor
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
    2 sources expand_more
    fact_check
    Kotani was SAC judo instructor at the Kodokan. The AAU Wrestling citation confirms Class 12 was a Kodokan-held combative measures course in 1957, but does not explicitly name Kotani as instructor for that specific class.
    “Judo instruction was provided by Kodokan greats Kotani, Otaki, Takagake, Sato, Shinojima, and Yamaguchi.”
    — (2014-07-31). American airmen of the Strategic Air Commandlink history info
    “LeMay brought in some of Japan's greatest martial arts masters, Sumiyuki Kotani, Kenji Tomiki, Hidetaka Nishiyama, Isao Obata, and others, to tour SAC bases”
    — Larsen, Matt. (2025-08-28). Clubs or Culture? The Rise and Fall of the 1950s Air Force Martial Arts Programlink history info

Students (1)

person
Edmund Mede

Organizers (1)

corporate_fare
Strategic Air Command
Other · 1946-03-21 – 1992 · Superseded

Styles (1)

Kōdōkan Jūdō
講道館柔道 · founded 1882, Tokyo

Tags

sac-judo · combative-measures · kodokan · instructor-class

Sources

visibilityFirst-hand
“Airman Williams and Mede were included in the Combative Measures Intructor class #12 scheduled for advanced combative measures and judo training at the Kodokan Judo Institute”
— Amateur Athletic Union of the United States. (1955). Wrestling: Official A.A.U. Guidelink info
Overstreet, Grady. (2004). Judo in the Strategic Air Command link history info

Cite and reuse

CC BY-SA 4.0expand_more
Plain text
Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). SAC Combatives Course, Class 12. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M1MCG84S2YE0J9P00MCS3ND7 - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
BibTeX
@incollection{martialis_01M1MCG84S2YE0J9P00MCS3ND7, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {SAC Combatives Course, Class 12}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M1MCG84S2YE0J9P00MCS3ND7}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
data_object JSON-LDdata_object Turtle
https://martial.is/entity/01M1MCG84S2YE0J9P00MCS3ND7

Database content on this page is CC BY-SA 4.0; the database right is separately reserved. Licensing