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French karate and kickboxing pioneer, a dominant figure in European karate from the late 1960s, known as the French karate king and Europe's counterpart to Joe Lewis. He trained under Henry Plée and was a professional kickboxing champion. Jean-Claude Van Damme briefly studied kickboxing with him in Paris in the late 1970s.
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Henry Pléesports_martial_artsShotokan ProbableProbableFrench Wikipedia and Wikidata record Valera as a student of Henry PléeThe evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
Students (1)
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Jean-Claude Van Damme(1977–1980)
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2 sources expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkVan Damme confirms training with Valera in the 1988 Fighter interview, and later sources corroborate brief full-contact work with Valera in the late 1970s“At the age of 12, Van Damme joined the Centre National de Karaté (National Center of Karate) under the guidance of Claude Goetz in Belgium. Van Damme trained for four years and he earned a spot on the Belgian Karate Team; he later trained in full-contact karate and kickboxing with Dominique Valera.”
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Dominique Valera. In Martialis: Martial
Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M040GCQ9PBVZ7808T4QP14FJ - CC
BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M040GCQ9PBVZ7808T4QP14FJ, author = {Muñoz, Frederico},
title = {Dominique Valera}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage
Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url =
{https://martial.is/entity/01M040GCQ9PBVZ7808T4QP14FJ}, urldate =
{ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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