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INTERVIEW

Osvaldo George Rodríguez

and Savate - French Boxing from which I reach the level of silver
gloves 1st grade in 2003 delivered by the International Federation
of French Savate-Boxing.

Are you related to the beginning of mixed martial arts in Cuba:

In 2012 I invited to Holguín to the First World Champion that Cuba
has in Kick Boxing.The teacher and several times world champion
Eric “El tigre” Castaños with whom I exchanged a while ago
when he wrote the book: Contact sports in Cuba and on the sub-
ject of Judokickbox mixed martial art style, a modality that he and
the Founding Master Carlos Finales had created since 2002 and
after starting to develop it in Cuba I gave the first seminar of this
new modality in the country, which brought a development achieved
in such a short time and for my constant push to take it all over
the country and massify its practice and with surprising results de-
monstrated in competitions by my athletes .I have the honor of being
named as one of the Founding Masters in Cuba and the 8th Dan
Belt Martial Grade Tri-Color.

How has been direct more than a dojo:

Well, the responsibilities have been accompanied by my dedication
to the things that I like since I was 18 years old. I introduced con-
tact sports to the province and the following year I was already
doing an event I organized myself independently and recognized
by the INDER provincial, in the year 2000 we were elected as Se-
cretary of the Martial Arts Federation of the province, but in turn I
was the Representative of the Central-Eastern Zone of Cuba for the
Cuban Kick Boxing Association from the year 2000 until In 2003 I
held the position of National Vice President of Kick Boxing and Re-
lated Martial Arts until 2012, from 2002 I held the position of Vice
President of Martial Arts in the province of Holguin until 2010 that
I am appointed as Provincial President of the Arts Martials in which
I was unanimously re-elected on September 26, 2014 and on Au-
gust 10 of that same year I was elected by the Founding Masters of
the Judokickbox President for Cuba but among the most important