14/03/2018
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Do You Know Who This Is?
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In 1942, a man by the name of Owsaldo Fadda began teaching Jiujitsu in the streets of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. As the son of Italian immigrants, he felt a calling to help the underprivileged children of his city.
Fadda would teach jiu jitsu free of charge in unorthodox locations such as public parks and beaches, often without the aid of crash mats, aiming to spread the art of jiu-jitsu to those who couldn’t afford the over priced academies. Fadda also saw jiu-jitsu as a way to help people with physical or mental disabilities, especially the city's numerous polio victims.
By 1950 he opened his first school where his students began specialising in the use of leglocks, a skill set often ignored part of the jiu-jitsu curriculum. It was this skill set that allowed his students to be recognized as a formidable force against the other established jiu-jitsu academies in Brazil.
Eventually, students from other academies became wary of their leglock expertise, shouting derisively "sapateiro!" ("shoemaker!") whenever a Fadda student tried one of their foot techniques. .
