Len Lanius: "American jiu-jitsu: The new art of self defense"
Lanius Pub. Co. | ASIN: B0008882P4 | 1922 | PDF | 51 Pages | 8,8 MB
Lanius Pub. Co. | ASIN: B0008882P4 | 1922 | PDF | 51 Pages | 8,8 MB
Longtime Cincinnati resident Leonard (”Len”) Lanius, born around 1865, claims he was the lightweight champion wrestler of the world at one point. That would have been around 1890 and I have verified that he did at least referee a match in 1894. In fact, the loser of the bout gave Lanius some lip, whereupon Lanius promptly removed his coat to take care of business. Police interference prevented it from going any farther. Once, while speaking about the Gotch-Hackenschmidt bouts, Lanius noted that “it was the invasion of the Jap wrestlers around that time that put me to work on perfecting a style of defense to check their attack. Their methods were quite baffling.” That, of course, led to his publication of American Jiu Jitsu: The New Art of Self Defense in 1922.