Citation

Mann, WR. Jon Bluming, Europe's First Mixed Martial Artist - Realfighting

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• AuthorMann, WR

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Jon Bluming

1933-02-06 - 2018-12-17

Description

Interview with Jon Bluming by WR Mann, published on the Realfighting Organization site; the USAdojo repost is a copy of this. Bluming describes his instructors in Tokyo as including Donn Draeger, Mas Oyama, Kenji Kurosaki and Ichitaro Kuroda; recounts how Draeger trained him from March 1959, proposed him for the Kenshusei class, and how they trained bo-jitsu under Shimizu and Kuroda twice a week for two and a half years, receiving 3rd dan from the Japanese Kendo Federation.