Just a small piece on Helio Gracie's passing this year. The original Master and teacher. The inventor, Inspiration, life style guru .............. Many things have been used to describe him. I Don't want to get into that now, Master Helio is fine by me and its not my place to judge how history has remembered him and what part he has played in this sport. Others will do that who were there at that time. This video shows Helio fighting the legendary kimura. Helio was nine years older and weighed only 63 kilo(sourced from Rickson's site). Kimura on the other hand was the heavy weight Judoka champion of the world at the time(Also claimed by many to be the greatest to have ever lived). Kimura was so sure of his powers he said that, If the Helio could last 3 minutes he can declare himself the winner. Kimura did win the fight. but it lasted 13 min.
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