Edmund Mede

Also known as

Ed Meade

Description

American judoka and member of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) Judo program. He won a silver medal at the US National Championships in Chicago in 1958 (over 81kg) and was a member of the 1958 US Pan-American Judo Team. He was an early instructor of James Pedro Sr., who later became an Olympic alternate and father/coach of World Champion Jimmy Pedro Jr.

Trained here, teacher unidentified (1)

• Kōdōkan Jūdō

  location_onKodokan (1957)

  at SAC Combatives Course, Class 12

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  AAU Wrestling Official Guide directly names Mede as a student in the SAC-ARDC Combative Measures Instructor class 12 at the Kodokan in 1957.

  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

Possible teachers, inferred from place/event staff records:

• 
  Kotani Sumiyuki

  Kōdōkan Jūdō · SAC Combatives Course, Class 12, Kodokan

Students (1)

• 
  James Pedro Sr.

  sports_martial_artsKōdōkan Jūdō Probable

  Probable

  Black Belt Magazine (June 1978) states Jimmy Pedro (Sr.) began studying with Edmund Mede at age 19

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Black Belt Magazine (June 1978) states Jimmy Pedro (Sr.) began studying with Edmund Mede at age 19

  “A latecomer to judo, Pedro was 19 when he began studying with national heavyweight champion and international gold medalist, Edmund Mede”

  — Black Belt Magazine (June 1978)link

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