Isaiah Bird the Legless Wrestler Story
Original Airdate: Sunday May possibly 17, 2015 (ESPN-Tv)
Television Shows We Utilized To Watch – Christmas 1959
Christmas 1959
Christmas Eve 1959 – Thursday 24th December 1959 BBC Tv
2:30pm Watch with Mother
(Watch With Mother was a cycle of children’s programmes produced by Freda Lingstrom. Broadcast by BBC Tv from 1952 until 1973, it was the first BBC television series aimed specifically at pre-college kids, a development of BBC radio’s equivalent Listen with Mother, which had begun two years earlier. In accordance with its intended target audience of pre-college kids viewing with their mothers, Watch With Mother was initially broadcast among 3:45 pm and 4:00 pm, post-afternoon nap and prior to the older young children came property from college.
The choice of Watch With Mother for the title of the series was intended "to deflect fears that television may become a nursemaid to kids and encourage ‘bad mothering’"
2:45pm "The Man from 1997", comic fantasy with Charles Ruggles
3:30pm Faraway Look
4:40pm "The Apple Tree with the Golden Apples", a Czechoslovak film
5pm Children’s Newsreel
five:10pm Crackerjack
(Crackerjack was a British children’s comedy/variety BBC television series. It began on 14 September 1955 and ran for over 400 shows, first in black and white and later in colour, till 21 December 1984.)
five:55pm News and Climate
6:25pm Christmas Fare
six:30pm Carols from Canterbury
7:5pm James Stewart in the film "Trail to Christmas"
7:30pm Julie Andrews in "The Gentle Flame", by Francis Essex
8:15pm Menotti’s Christmas Story with "Amahl and the Night Visitors"
9pm News Summary
9:5pm Rosalind Russell in the film "Sister Kenny"
10:55pm-12midnight Midnight Mass of the Nativity, from the Roman Catholic Bergkirche, Eisenstadt, Austria
Christmas Eve 1959 – Thursday 24th December 1959 ITA – Linked Rediffusion (London)
4:45pm For Children – Little Time
5pm For Youngsters – Canadian Close friends
5:55pm News
6:15pm Close Up with Herbert Lom
six:45pm Children’s Carol Service
7pm Rawhide (western series)
8pm Dotto
eight:25pm This Week
8:55pm The Deputy (western series)
9:25pm News
9:35pm Merry With Medwin
ten:30pm Dial for Music
11pm News
11:2pm Dick and the Duchess
11:25pm Crooked Path
11:50pm-1:5am The 1st Communion of Christmas – Midnight Mass
Christmas Day 1959 – Friday 25th December 1959 BBC Tv
eight:30am George Mitchell Glee Club and Dennis Wilson Quartet
9-9:3am The Queen’s recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth (sound only)
11pm Morning Service from St. George’s Parish Church, Stockport
11:45pm Programme from the International Pestalozzi Children’s Villages
12:15pm "Meet Mr. Kringle" film comedy
1pm News Summary
1:5pm Max Jaffa’s Trio, Alicia Markova and the Linden Singers
1:35pm "Day’s Before Christmas" Canadian film
2pm Boots and Saddles (western series)
2:25pm Although Angels Watch
3pm Chipperfield’s Circus Festival
4pm Billy Cotton’s Christmas Celebration
4:45pm Barrie’s "A Kiss for Cinderella"
5:15pm News Summary
six:20pm Christmas Night with the Stars
7:35pm Harry Belafonte in "Songs of Many Lands"
eight:20pm Gary Cooper in "High Noon"
9:45pm News Summary
9:50pm "Bleak House" (element 11 final episode)
ten:20pm Make May for Music
10:50pm Epilogue followed by Weather Report
Christmas Day 1959 – Friday 25th December 1959 ITA – Connected Rediffusion (London)
ten:45am The Nativity
11:10am Christmas Morning Service from the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster
12noon This Superb Globe
12:30pm The Dickie Henderson Half-Hour
(Dickie Henderson, OBE (30 October 1922 – 22 September 1985) was a London-born entertainer.)
12:55pm News
1pm Christmas Box
2pm Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra
3pm The Queen
three:5pm "A Girl in Every Port" starring Groucho Marx
4:15pm Happy Christmas
four:45pm Richard Todd presents
5:30pm Educating Archie
(Educating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show broadcast from June 1950 to February 1958 on Sunday lunchtimes featuring ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews. The programme was profitable in spite of a ventriloquist on radio seeming strange, though in the United States, Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy had also undertaken radio function. Educating Archie averaged 15 million listeners, and a fan club boasted 250,000 members. It was so successful that in 1950, following only four months on the air, it won the Day-to-day Mail’s Variety Award.)
6pm "Once Upon a Christmas" starring Mavis Traill
6:30pm News and Sports Results
6:45pm The Christmas Hour with Hughie Green
7:45pm Emergency – Ward 10
(Emergency – Ward ten is a British tv series shown on ITV among 1957 and 1967. Like The Grove Family, a series shown by the BBC among 1954 and 1957, Emergency – Ward 10 is deemed to be one particular of British television’s very first main soap operas.)
8:15pm The Army Game
(The Army Game is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1957 to 1961. Made in black-and-white, it is about National Service conscription to the post-war British Army. It was developed by Sid Colin. Several stars, like Charles Hawtrey, William Hartnell, Bernard Bresslaw, Alfie Bass and Dick Emery became household names, and appeared in the Carry On films, which began with Carry On Sergeant, practically a spin-off. It was produced for the ITV network by Granada Tv.)
eight:45pm Take Your Choose
(Take Your Pick! was a United Kingdom game show originally broadcast by Radio Luxembourg in the early 1950s. The show transferred to television in 1955 with the launch of ITV, where it continued until 1968. As it was the first game show broadcast on commercial tv in the UK (and the BBC did not at that point provide monetary prizes on its game shows), it was also by default the first British game show to supply money prizes.)
9:15pm The Macomber Affair
10:45pm News
10:50pm The Turn of the Screw (Act 1) followed by the Climate
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11:45pm The Epilogue
Boxing Day 1959 – Saturday 26th December 1959 BBC Tv
12noon-5pm Grandstand
– Boxing
– Horse Racing from Kempton Park
– Motor Racing from Brands Hatch
– Football and Racing Summaries
5pm Whirlybirds
(Whirlybirds (often named The Whirlybirds or Copter Patrol) is a syndicated American drama/adventure tv series, which aired for 111 episodes — broadcast from February four, 1957, by means of January 18, 1960. It was developed by Desilu Studios.)
5:25pm "The Three Princes" by Rex Tucker
six:15pm News Summary and Climate
six:22pm Laramie
(Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert L. Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman.)
7:10pm Dixon of Dock Green
(Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes have been later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.)
7:40pm Mother Goose with Frankie Howard
(The Boxing Day pantomime, recorded prior to an invited audience of 1,500, was Mother Goose starring Frankie Howard in his first part as a pantomime dame.)
9:10pm News Summary
9:15pm Quatermass and the Pit (Element 1)
(Quatermass and the Pit is a British tv science-fiction serial, initially transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959. It was the third and last of the BBC’s Quatermass serials, even though the character would reappear in an 1979 ITV production simply entitled Quatermass. Like its predecessors, Quatermass and the Pit was written by Nigel Kneale.)
10:45pm Old-Time Music Hall
(The Good Old Days was a well-known BBC tv light entertainment programme which ran from 1953 to 1983.
It was performed at the Leeds City Varieties and recreated an genuine atmosphere of the Victorian–Edwardian music hall with songs and sketches of the era performed by present-day performers in the style of the original artistes.
The audience dressed in period costume and joined in the singing, specifically "Down at the Old Bull and Bush" which closed the show. The show was compered by Leonard Sachs. In the course of its run it featured about 2,000 performers.)
11:45pm Weather
Boxing Day 1959 – Saturday 26th December 1959 ITA – Linked Tv (ATV London)
1:10pm News
1:15pm Ballroom Dancing, Horse Racing, Ice Show, Wrestling & Sports Final results
5pm Patrick O’Hagan (songs)
(Patrick O’Hagan Songs was an Australian television series starring the Irish tenor. It was developed by station ATN-7 in November 1958, and started being broadcast in early 1959. Unlike most Australian-made series of the era, which have been live, Patrick O’Hagan Sings was made straight on film, with a total of 26 episodes created, every of which was made to fit in a quarter-hour time-slot. Patrick O’Hagan sang songs in the series.)
five:15pm Robin Hood
(The Adventures of Robin Hood is a British tv series comprising 143 half-hour, black and white episodes broadcast weekly between 1955 and 1959[2] on ITV. It stars Richard Greene as the outlaw Robin Hood and Alan Wheatley as his nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham. The show followed the legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry males in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. Even though some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes have been original dramas developed by the show’s writers and producers.)
five:45pm News
6pm Cannonball
(Cannonball was a 1958 Normandie Productions and ITC Entertainment co-production half-hour loved ones drama series. Filmed in Canada but starring two American actors, the series followed the adventures of Mike Malone and Jerry Austin as they drove trucks across the US and Canada for the fictitious C&A Transport Firm Ltd. The truck depicted in the series is believed to be that of a GMC Model 950 COE (cab-over engine) diesel tractor built and sold in the identical decade by General Motors.
The series would appear to be unusual, as sources say it is one particular of the few ITC productions to air on ABC Weekend Tv in the UK. Simply because Associated Television (ATV) owners of ITC, also ran the London weekend and Midlands weekdays ITV organizations, they tended to hold the rights for ITC series in order to show every one in the Midlands (where ABC was the weekend operator) during the week.
The series ran for 39 episodes in monochrome. In the last episode, Austin who was Malone’s co-driver on the truck has a likelihood to go back and finish college. Malone knows this and knows he will not since Austin doesn’t want to split their partnership. In his yearly medical, Malone pretends to have tunnel vision (lack of peripheral vision) which indicates he can’t drive trucks any far more. This signifies Austin is now free to go to college.)
six:30pm Boy Meets Girls
(Boy Meets Girls was a UK popular music Tv show which was launched in September 1959 replacing the earlier show Oh Boy!.
The show was presented and developed by Jack Excellent. Marty Wilde was the principal resident male artist and The Vernons Girls had been the female residents. Joe Brown made normal appearances. Other artists appearing integrated Terry Dene, Freddy Cannon, Small Tony & His Brothers, Adam Faith and Cliff Richard.
The director was Rita Gillespie for ABC Weekend Television element of the ITV network.
It closed in 1960 all 26 episodes were subsequently wiped, and none survives in ITV’s archive as of 2009.)
7pm Wyatt Earp
(The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a western tv series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black and white system aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O’Brian in the title part.)
7:30pm Tommy Steele in This Certain Show
(Tommy Steele OBE (born Thomas William Hicks, 17 December 1936), is an English entertainer. Steele is widely regarded as Britain’s first teen idol and rock and roll star.)
eight:25pm The Voodoo Factor (Episode three)
(Tough-driven scientist David Whittaker finds himself battling for the survival of the planet against a disease spreading from a tropical island brought on by a legendary spider-goddess.
Stars: Maurice Kaufmann, Maxine Audley, Philip Bond)
8:55pm News
9pm The Four Just Males
(The Four Just Men was a 1959 Sapphire Films production for ITC Entertainment. It ran for one season of 39 half-hour monochrome episodes.)
9:30pm Film Time: "Counterblast" with Robert Beatty
(Counterblast is a 1948 British thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns and Nova Pilbeam. It was created by British National Films at Elstree Studios.)
11:15pm The Invisible Man, followed by Climate Forecast and Epilogue
(The Invisible Man (later known as H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man) is a British science fiction/adventure/espionage television series that aired on ITV from September 1958 to July 1959. The series was networked on CBS in the United States. It ran for 26 half-hour black-and-white episodes for two series and was nominally based on the novel by H. G. Wells, one of 4 such tv series. The deviation from the novel went as far as changing the major character’s name from Dr. Griffin to Dr. Peter Brady who, in this version, remained a sane man, not a energy-hungry lunatic as in the book or the 1933 film adaptation. None of the other characters from the novel appeared on the series.)
By brizzle born and bred on 2013-06-30 14:32:48
Right here are the best four workouts for wrestling that I have located to be most effective for developing strength.
Box Squat
The squat is by far the mother of all workout routines. Even though it at times gets a bad rap, when performed appropriately you are capable to use about 70% of the total muscle in your body. The squat will create legs stronger than you could ever envision and help you battle effectively by means of almost each wrestling scenario recognized to man. I have all of my wrestlers squat and the majority of their squats are completed on a box.
Deadlift
The deadlift is arguably the ideal way to boost your hip and low back strength muscles that will aid in nearly every single position on the mat. There are two variations that I have my wrestlers carry out: standard and sumo. The conventional deadlift will create an iron back while the sumo is employed far more for strengthening a pair of championship winning hips. Because each are vital for winning matches, I have my wrestlers modify their deadlift stance each few workouts.
Weighted Chinup
If the squat is the mother of all decrease body exercises, the chinup is definitely its upper physique counterpart, especially when it issues workout routines specific for wrestling. It goes without objection that wrestling is a sport of pulling, however, the typical measure of strength nevertheless seems to be the bench press. Tighter clinches, a greater percentage of shots finished, a a lot more dominant hand fight, and unyielding stress on top are just some of the functions of your pulling strength. Increasing your weighted chinup will undoubtedly enhance your possibilities of dominating on the wrestling mat.
I after educated a four-time New York State champion who could do three strict chinups with 125 pounds attached to his waist. Now, despite the fact that there is no denying his skills as a wrestler how a lot of folks do you believe could successfully sprawl against his pulling strength? There might be a few, but combine his pulling strength with his other wrestling expertise and takedowns are inevitable.
Bench Press
The bench press is undoubtedly the most well-known of all exercises. If somebody finds out you lift weights their initial question is practically usually, “How significantly do you bench?” Bench pressing is a excellent way to build upper physique strength. Though it is not the most functional lift for wrestling, it is still an essential component when searching to increase total body strength for the sport and preserve muscle balance.
Dickie White is the co-founder of Shamrock Strength and Conditioning, one particular of the nation’s top systems for education champion wrestlers. Dickie is a 2006 graduate of the Ithaca College Clinical Physical exercise Science program and holds a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). For more info on how you can improve your functionality on the mat through his strength instruction program please visit http://www.wrestlerstrength.com/
This video inspired me so much. Sometimes having no legs is better
After this video you have to just love this kid. Now, you really have to love his coach and family; they are there for him as much as he is there for himself. If there was a vote for American Hero I would vote for this coach.
This kid is a reminder to all of us that we all have a purpose and a destiny to fulfill in life no matter our circumstances.
nice job
kids cry over a hurt leg all I can say is no exuses
He’ll be a jacked 106 pounder in high school
Wow. I met Isaiah and his coach last summer for an amputee camp I just started wrestling. Now to see how he actually wrestles it’s pretty cool!
This right here is true toughness
this is awesome. i am almost crying now. creds to this guy
omg great job coach!RESPECT! LOVE IS THE BEST POWER AND MOTIVATION FOR COMPLETE LIFE
My brother wrestled him and my brother won
He’s going to have huge arms
Bet he can only wrestle greco
this kid is at my tournament right mpw
God bless him
the kid actually has an unfair advantage. think about it those other kids aren’t trained to wrestle him. while he is trained to wrestle 2 legged wrestlers.
his weakness is the double leg takedown
How did he lose his legs
This kid is at a great average for wrestling because with out leg weight he will wrestle kids with less upper body strength. Also if you are the opponent if you shot you’ll have to go in to his massive upper body. But I love the video I respect your back story little budy
People like this shouldn’t even wrestle they got all these special rules and shit like they aren’t special just because they are missing a limb and wrestle doesn’t make you different your just another person
That boy has Love! Love is awesome! Jesus is Love!
Extreme ways to cut wait.
I. A local wrestler actually where he is from and I’ve seen him practice and met him multiple times and he’s surprisingly very good and he’s uplifting and energetic. What a great thing
I’m about the same age as those kids.. We had a TV exactly like that one in 1959 too!
I think the flap was the on-off switch.
I just realized he has the strength of an upper weight class kid but is down lower because he doesn’t have legs that makes a lot more sense now
I met him before in a mall in Microsoft
Long Beach high school (Long Island) wrestling Coach he’s the bro
Guess u can only do a single leg
Yasss Isaiah I only met you yesterday but you are amazing ! Remember no excuses! See you in Maryland next year!
I wanted to see the size of his arms compared to the size of a typical 7 year old. I imagine he’s really strong!
Is there anyone in his wieght class….
Well I didn’t but we wrestled his team in duals
Can someone tell my why this legless troll lookin motherfucker is beating normal fucking children that have legs ,which already give them a *LEG* up. Honestly, what stops you from picking that weird little bowling ball lookin motherfucker and ending his life with a takedown?
Love it !!
it would suck to lose to someone with no legs
This kid is on my team
Some wonderful photographs on your stream recently Pete, thanks so much for sharing these great images, always a joy to see what’s new in your collection.
There are advantages to not having legs, especially in wrestling. Trying to pin a person is a great deal more difficult when they can move without the restraint of legs.
I do wrestling ? too and I am a girl ?
I do wrestling to. all my respect to this kid
Yeah Ok. Im 6ft 190. Guaranteed victory if I wrestle this small boy.
sad!???
weigh ins are a breeze lmao
hes wrestling littler kids with the upper body of a kid older than him
Some may remember a similar wrestler with one leg who won a national title a few years ago: Anthony Robles.
great kid and great coach
I’ve wrestled this kid much respect
this is the reason why I wrestle
1959 Ending that year
The Adventures of Twizzle (1957–1959)
The Adventures of William Tell (1958–1959)
The Invisible Man (1958–1959)
Ivanhoe (1958–1959)
Oh Boy! (1958–1959)
Quatermass and the Pit (1958–1959)
Torchy the Battery Boy (1958–1959)
6:59 look at Isaiah next to the kid with the grey sweatshirt Isaiah doin push-up with just his arms dude strong as hell
Those were the days……….total of three channels
wow
That’s not even fair
props to him, hes has my respect. I have a question though, how does the whole wrestling with similar weight class.