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Wyatt Lee

04/19/09 6:35 PM

#63032 RE: stranger7777 #62978

BBDA has been talking for about 8 months now with KOMA. Sure would be nice to know what has developed.
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Wyatt Lee

04/21/09 11:29 AM

#63609 RE: stranger7777 #62978

I agree! The drink KOMA Unwind doesn't make any sense!!

Anyone that knows what KOMA is, will not relate to the name.

KOMA was a Warrior!

(It was Maeda who brought Jiu-Jitsu to Brazil. As a member of the Kodokan, Maeda went to America with his kohai Satake, etc. as Judo ambassadors. He was said to have fought more than 100 fights and in Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, he was respected as Count Koma (Conde Koma).

Maeda was born in Aomori Prefecture in 1878. When he was a boy, he learned Tenshin (Tenshin Shin'yo) Jiu-Jitsu. He moved to Tokyo when he was about 18 and went to Tokyo Senmon School. He began practicing Judo and a record of him entering the Kodokan is dated 1897. He was very persistant and never gave up on anything. He was naturaly talented in judo and rose through the ranks quickly to establish himself as the most promising young judoka in the Kodokan. Maeda was a small man at 164 cm, 70 kilo.)

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/5389/maeda.html