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- From: urbin@interlan.interlan.com (Mark Urbin)
- Subject: Re: Evil Black Belts (was : Fighting against animals?)
- Message-ID: <urbin.164.728245495@interlan.interlan.com>
- Summary: Count Dante may be dead, but his school still lives...
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- Organization: Racal-Datacom
- References: <C1FLD2.EoJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <2838@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> <ofNfmaH0Bwx2QgXBx_@transarc.com> <C1JBML.FC8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:24:55 GMT
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- In article <C1JBML.FC8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Dakin Burdick) writes:
- >In article <ofNfmaH0Bwx2QgXBx_@transarc.com> Stephen_Y._Chan@transarc.com writes:
- >RE: Count Dante
- There was a bit in one of the trade rags a few months back that
- mentioned the good Count. It was basically a listing of instructors. About
- 8 listing to a page. Mostly what folk sent in got printed verbatim. I
- almost bought the mag for the humor value of some of the listings. One of
- them was for a dojo located in Fall River, MA. The instructor there claimed
- to be the chosen successor of Count Dante.
-
- >> As I understand it, he was essentially a street fighter posing
- >>as a formal MA teacher.
- >I believe he had a 2nd dan (or 3rd) under Robert Trias and was
- >an up and comer in the early 1960s. Then he developed an attitude
- >and so did his Black Dragon Fighting Society. His students were
- >aggressive, but not well-trained.
- >>He liked to trash other people's schools, and
- >>earned lots of enemies that way - didn't he eventually he came to an
- >>unfortunate (but well deserved) ending?
- >I remember one of his friends was killed by a spear after they
- >attacked a Chinese kwoon in Chicago. Dante was an alchoholic and may
- >have died of that (ie. I don't remember!).
- >
- Mark Urbin Racal-Datacom Boxborough, MA urbin@interlan.interlan.com
- These opinions are mine. No one else will admit to them.
- Most people agree that the government is largely sluggish and ineffective.
- Then why do most people demand that it do everything for them?
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