The History of Fighting

Tony Jaa

These images are from the book How to Develop a Powerful Grip by Edward Aston, a legendary strongman who was famous in the early twentieth century for performing feats of strength that involved his incredibly powerful grip. The first image on the left, Gripping an Open Door, is used to develop pinch grip strength and the second, Hanging from a Rope, is one of the best exercises there is for improving your grip, according to Aston.

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Zhang Sanfeng of the Wu Tang Taoist School (c.12 - 13 century).

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An example of a female warrior of the samurai class (onna-bugeisha).

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"Big results require big ambitions".

~ Heraclitus of Ephesus ~

Richard Hill and his student demonstrating some basic kendo moves at the Asian Art Museum's educator workshop for the Lords of the Samurai exhibition on September 5, 2009.

Turkish official teasing starving Armenian children with bread (1915)

The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust or the Great Crime among Armenians, was the systematic murder of the minority Armenian population by the Ottoman government in Turkey. The crisis started on April 24, 1915 when authorities arrested around 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. After this, able bodied men were either outright murdered or died during forced labour and women, children the sick and the elderly were forced to go on ‘death marches’ where over one million people died during deportation to the Syrian Desert.

While most experts in genocide see it as just that, (in fact the word came about to describe these events), Turkey still officially deny genocide is an accurate description of what transpired. They do however acknowledge that many people died, but argue that it was not state sanctioned, citing  state archive records of punishments of Turkish officials who were cruel to the migrating Armenian people.

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Title: Sumo Fight

Date: 19th Century

Artist: Kunisada Utagawa 1786-1864

Information: Depiction of two sumo wrestlers fighting while samurai warriors look on.

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"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

~ General George S Patton ~