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The mystery of the “Japanised Englishman”
Pieter M.C. Toepoel was, in a sense, the E.W. Barton-Wright of the Netherlands. A boxing and physical culture teacher and something of a free-thinker, attracted to novelties, Toepoel was the first man...
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William E. Steers and the Hilltop dojo
(With thanks to the late Richard Bowen as well as to John Bowen and Joe Svinth.) William E. Steers is one of the “mystery men” of the early British jiujitsu scene. His name appears in connection with...
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