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Josh Waitzkin wins Middleweight World Championship in Martial Arts

posted 19 years ago by jquark
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International Master (IM) Josh Waitzkin won the Middleweight World Championship Title in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands (Fixed Step), and became the Middleweight World Co-Champion in Chuan Push Hands (Moving Step), after competing in the 7th Chung Hwa Cup International Tai Chi Chuan Championship on December 5, 2004.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/prweb/20041216/bs_prweb/prweb188826_1

[–] rwsmith29456 16 years ago

It must be nice to be brilliant in several different areas.

[–] danjkelley 15 years ago

LOL!!! I've never been brilliant in one area, so I wouldn't know.

"If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics." Will Rogers

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[–] bobbydallas (8059) 6 years ago

he's super cool that dude

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8292) 4 years ago

He is cool but it's a shame he dropped out of chess. Seems that he concluded that he would never make it to grandmaster and was like, Fuck it, I'm out.

[–] bobbydallas (8059) 4 years ago

nevertheless one of my fav matches

Waitzkin vs E. Frumkin (1987)
so good ! it seems black just overestimated the youngster.. the queen sac is pretty obvious