The Grappling Dummy: Masakazu Imanari Video Interview
by Martial Farts on May 19, 2011 4:31 AM EDT
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I finally got around to finishing off the video interview I did with some friends in Japan last year. We spoke to loads of famous JMMA stars, Imanari was by far the strangest.
You can read about the experience of filming it here in a previous post.
Video after the jump!
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Filmed in Tokyo, September 2010.
Masakazu Imanari is the enigmatic grappler known as the Ashikan Judan - Master of Leglocks.
No man has destroyed as many legs as him. Knees and ankles are his enemy. He hates them.
Want to find out how he got started in the martial arts?
Whether he enjoys breaking bones?
Where his leglocks came from?
Well you're never going to know because Imanari's interview style is as elusive and strange as his fighting style. But still, you should watch it anyway.
This is a rare and exclusive look at Masakazu Imanari (and Aoki Shinya, as well as Shigeru Saeki) in their natural habitat...
Check it out, and be sure to watch the rest in the series.
Sorry, 3 minutes of blackness at the end and Youtube does not have a "replace video" function.
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I could spend all day making and editing videos… It’s just so time consuming.
Be water, my friend.
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This is Great!
Thanks for posting this! I wish we had an “Orcus” for the Japanese interviews. Lots of neat stuff here.
If eating meat causes my brother to sin, I will eat vegetables forever.
What’s an Orcus?
Be water, my friend.
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by Martial Farts on May 19, 2011 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
A fat goat thing from Dungeons and Dragons
But in all seriousness, orcus is now known as Tom Mendes. He’s our defacto Portuguese translator and onsite BMMA (Brazilian MMA) guy. He’s the bane of Ed Soares existence.
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ok
I see.
Well maybe I can just keep on supplying the good stuff!
Still sitting on Kazuhiro Nakamura, Mitsuyoshi Hayakawa, and Tatsuya Onose…
Be water, my friend.
http://www.scramblestuff.com (Imported Japanese MMA goods!)
http://www.thegrapplingdummy.com (my Blog)
whatever happened
to you sending an application to KJ Gould for BE grappling contributions?
by Anton Tabuena on May 20, 2011 8:00 AM EDT up reply actions
I emailed him
and commented on the post, but he never got back to me which was disappointing!
Be water, my friend.
http://www.scramblestuff.com (Imported Japanese MMA goods!)
http://www.thegrapplingdummy.com (my Blog)
by Martial Farts on May 22, 2011 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Cheers
I been waiting for this one since the Aoki and other interviews. They are all pretty sweet, nice camera work/production values too.
Oh, those quirky japanese
Gotta love ’em.
by Horselover Fat on May 21, 2011 12:43 PM EDT reply actions
And yes, very nice overall quality of the production and editing, good stuff.
by Horselover Fat on May 21, 2011 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions
i mailed him
and commented on the post, but he never got back to me which was disappointing!
Be water, my friend.
http://www.scramblestuff.com (Imported Japanese MMA goods!)
http://www.thegrapplingdummy.com (my Blog)
Excellent Work
Keep up the good work you are doing. I am so glad there are people out there putting the time and effort to highlight jmma personalities, something we sadly in the west do not get sufficient coverage of.
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