Anton Geesinki

Signature: kesa-gatame, the scarf hold. The Dutch giant pinned Akio Kaminaga with it to win the open category at Tokyo 1964, in front of a stunned Budokan crowd, after becoming the first non-Japanese world champion in 1961. The footage shows how a hold-down, applied with patience, can be as…

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