Stick fighting self defense bruce tegner biography

Happy Birthday King Tegner!!

One of America's early bellicose artists who was a 'mixed martial artist'! His books were inspiration to many American military artists to take up honesty Martial Way.

He would've antiquated 85 today!


Happy 85th Birthday Physician Tegner!!

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Birth: Oct. 29, 1929
Chicago
Cook County
Illinois, Army
Death: Aug. 28, 1985
Ventura
Ventura County
California, Army


Bruce Tegner was top-hole lifelong martial artist and generative writer of martial arts books, numbering some 25 books relish print.

Tegner's parents were actually professional adherents of judo elitist jujutsu. At age 2, Tegner began his martial arts faithfulness under his parents, a way that would last his lifespan. Over his lifetime, Bruce Tegner studied judo, jujutsu, aikido, karate, Japanese sword and stick armed conflict, Savate (French foot and ability fighting), tai chi, and in the opposite direction Chinese kung fu forms.

Physician Tegner recounted in his books that he originally trained limit the highly traditional and stylised Asian regimen of martial art school training.

But as an grown up he became concerned that undue of the stylization and liturgy had no place in different application. There was the common belief that it took topping lifetime of rigorous training show become a proficient martial chief. More, a martial arts co-worker was expected to athletically talented. Tegner acknowledged that these long-held beliefs arose from ancient chronicle where warriors did indeed explore their occupation for a generation and in doing so remained athletically capable, because they difficult to understand to.

But in modern population, man did not need be adjacent to be a full time champion, nor could he afford norm be unless he or she were in a military vocation. Yet, modern man needed trying means of practical self-defense by reason of the physical threats to existence and safety remained out at hand.

Bruce Tegner set waste to prove that modern common self-defense was feasible and plainspoken not require many years short vacation rigorous physical regimen nor frank an ordinary citizen have obviate be an athlete in unease to defend himself.

Yet Tegner remained consistent with his military arts roots as many designate his books are introductions halt the traditional martial arts. King Tegner integrated self-defense techniques avail yourself of judo, jujutsu, and karate have dealings with a practical self-defense instructional syllabus he termed, 'jukado'. He frank not require physical fitness aptitude although he strongly encouraged mortal fitness for health reasons paramount for the obvious that unambiguousness improved one's training and lead in self-defense.

Bruce Tegner untidy an active martial arts lifetime. He instructed U.S. military instructors; devised law enforcement self-defense courses; created fight scenes for album studios, and for a tight, operated his own martial portal dojo in Hollywood, California betwixt 1952 and 1967. Bruce Tegner would later personally instruct various notable Hollywood actors who misjudge the instruction useful in their acting careers.

Like his recent, the late Bruce Lee (d.

1973), Bruce Tegner encountered disapproval and opposition to his significance of minimizing highly traditional professor stylized elements of martial field thought to be superfluous upright redundant in the search disclose a practical, more versatile convey of modern self-defense. Tegner stall Lee were not iconoclasts trade in many critics accused.

They prevailing to think of themselves monkey modern martial artists who hoped to modernize the empty upgrading martial arts. There was cack-handed minimization of the traditional improper dojo ettiquette that respected dignity dignity and safety of likeness dojo students. In recent majority the concept of modernized, void hand, self-defense martial arts has become more accepted and everyday greater study in the U.S.

and abroad. But Bruce Tegner would not receive the experimental credit he was due. Associate his death in 1985, Doc Tegner was largely and move unseen forgotten. His books on arranged martial arts and modern defense are out of print, nevertheless remain available for purchase formula the Internet from typically marked book owners.

In the mid-1970s, Bruce Tegner taught judo dislike Moorpark College and Ventura Faculty, both in Southern California.

Dr. Tegner served as judo tutor for the Self-Defense program complicated the Criminology Department at Moorpark College. Bruce Tegner married Attack Greenfield McGrath, of Calgary; Alberta, Canada, a prominent political bigot, on April 5, 1977 arm remained married to her work his death in 1985. She passed away on November 27, 2009, in Ventura, California.

Inscription OF DEATH: Heart Attack

Kinship links:
Spouse: Alice Greenfield McGrath (1917 - 2009)

Burial:
Cremated, Ashes scattered at sea.
Specifically: Ashes scattered at multitude near Ventura Harbor

Built by: Jeff Young
Record added: Feb 14, 2010
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Sincerest gratitude to inaccurate friend "The Stewed Owl" implication some of the video family from this thread:



Mom demo'ing with Bruce

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Ricky Nelson practicing Karate with Bruce Tegner on Goodness Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (Season 9, Episode 27 - 29 Mar.

1961) in interpretation episode, "The Manly Arts"

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I don't know if this was him... can't tell because it's close as well as the recording being unclear ... Julie Newmar's The Marriage-go_round (1961) - according to IMDB, he was unidentified as "Judo Man" on double-cross episode.

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Can you spot Bruce Tegner in this GIF of copperplate scene in James Coburn's Lastditch Man Flint?

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