COMING FROM ANGOLA
MR. MA
NUEL DE JESUS NOVO
IN PORTUGAL
ON THE 16TH
OF OCTOBER YEAR OF 1975.
WITH the
BROWN BELT
GRADUATION
1º KIU IN MARTIAL ARTS and SETTLING DOWN IN
HIS NATIVE 
LAND
( MIRANDELA
) PORTUGAL. HE
THEN
THOUGHT
ABOUT CREATING
A
PLACE
WHERE IT WOULD
BE POSSIBLE TO TEACH HIS KNOWLEDGE
TO
THE PEOPLE OF
MIRANDELA.
HIS DREAM
WAS MADE INTO REALITY IN THE S.
CLUBE OF MIRANDELA BY
THE
PROFESSOR OF GYMNASTICS
MR. COSTA AND WITH THE
HELP OF
THE GENTLEMEN: JOSE
FRANCISCO MACHADO AND RUI
LOPES.
NOTE:
The Only Existing Schools In Trás-os-Montes
were Of Lamego
whose
Instructor Was Jose Marques.
BEGINNING
THEN THE PRACTICE
OF THE MARTIAL ARTS ON
THE
15
OF JANUARY OF 1976. IN THE
S. CLUBE MIRANDELA.
PRESIDENT MR. MANUEL CARVALHO.
CREATING IN MIRANDELA
THE FIRST TEAM
OF MARTIAL ARTS,
AND FOR THE FIRST TIME
PHOTOGRAPH IS DISPLAYED IN THE
" MARTIAL
ARTS N.º 3 "MAGAZINE
IN JULY
OF I976 .
ON JULY OF
1976 JESUS
NOVO WAS GRADUATED
BLACK BELT.
IN SEPTEMBER THE
FIRST MEETING OF MARTIAL ARTS IN THE
"ESTÁDIO S. SEBASTIÃO" WITH THE PARTICIPATION
OF ONE OF THE TEAMS FROM
LAMEGO.
IN MARCH OF
1977 TEAM OF MIRANDELA CONSISTING OF THE
FOLLOWING
STUDENTS: RODRIGUES
PINTO, TERESA LINO, JORGE PIRES, JESUS NOVOS, FERNANDO CORDEIRO,
ANTÓNIO BAPTISTA and JOSE LUIS
PARTICIPATE For FIRST TIME IN A SEMINAR IN LISBON, SURPRISED WITH THEIR TECHNIQUES. In this seminar the name of (HIGH YOKO) was given to athlete ANTÓNIO BAPTISTA.
IN JUNE OF
1978 the FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP OF
FULL CONTACT FOR THE NORTH CITIES OF PORTUGAL HAS BECOME A REALITY IN
FREAMUNDE.
MIRANDELA OBTAINS 2º PLACE FOR THE
CONQUEST OF ONE 1ST PLACE
OF ANTÓNIO FIGUEIREDO..
JESUS
NOVO LEAVES
THE MIRANDELA
TO FULFILL HIS MILITARY OBLIGATION AND LEAVES 4 GRADUATED
STUDENTS WITH THE RESPONSIBILTY OF THE SCHOOL: ANTÓNIO
BAPTISTA, FERNANDO CORDEIRO
AND ANTÓNIO FIGUEIREDO. CARLOS FERNANDES.
UPON
HIS RETURN FROM THE MILITARY,
JESUS NOVO IS
INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN A MEETING OF 
MARTIAL ARTS IN SPAIN THAT IS
RECOGNIZED WITH
SPECTACULAR EXHIBITION.
HE
IS THEN INVITED TO TEACH
HIS
STYLE IN SPAIN AND HE
ESTABLISHED HIM SELF THEIR DURING ONE YEAR.
UPON TEACHING
THE SPANIARDS THE PORTUGUESE
STYLE , THIS PERIOD ALSO SERVES TO MAKE CONTACTS
WITH OTHER MARTIAL ARTS AND IS THUS THAT
MAKES HIM DECIDES TO LOOK
FOR
GREATER KNOWLEDGE THAT
TAKES HIM TO
FRANCE, ANDORRA AND HOLLAND WHERE HE TRAINED WITH
VARIOUS MASTERS
OF VARIOUS STYLES.
IN
MIRANDELA, THE SCHOOL PASSES THROUGH
DIFFICULT TIMES, LEAVING THE
S. CLUB
MIRANDELA AND PASSING
LATER FOR DECISION BY
MR. PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER
JESUS
NOVO REGULARLY
VISITED
THE SCHOOL OF MIRANDELA ONE OR TWO TIMES OF
THE YEAR. WITHTMR.
CARLOS LISBON, IN
THE GYM
OF THE SECONDARY
SCHOOL OF MIRANDELA.
THE SCHOOL
CONTINUES
ITS OBJECTIVE: TO DIVULGE THE ARTS MARTIAL.
IN
ONE OF HIS VISITS
MIRANDELA
JESUS
NOVO
IS INVITED TO DEDICATE HIM
SELF PERSONALLY TO
THE SCHOOL HE CREATED.
HE
AGREES WITH
the IDEA and ON
THE 15TH OF MAY OF 1984 the MASTER.
THE
HEADQUARTERS OF THE SCHOOL IS
INAUGURATED In the
"BAIRRO
DO CONVENTO"
HAVING AS MATERS ALREADY
JESUS NOVO
GRADUATED 3º DAN
IN KUNG-FU
and WITH ABOUT 100 PUPILS. AS THE
BEGINNING STUDENTS,
PEDRO MIGUEL
TAVEIRA, ILIDIO TEIXEIRA, FERNANDO PINHEIRO, FRANCISCO MARTINS, JOSE PINA.
WHICH
BROUGHT THE ATTENTION OF MANY PEOPLE WITHE THEIR SKILLS.
THE SCHOOL
PARTICIPATED IN THE FIRST MEETING OF THE NEW AGE IN LAMEGO IN
ON
THE
13 OF JUNE OF 1986
THE
A.M.A.O
IS
CONSTITUTED BY WRITING
PUBLISHES ASSOCIATION
MIRANDELENSE OF
ARTS
ORIENTAL.
IN THE YEAR OF 1986
(AMAO) PARTICIPATES
IN THE OPEN TOURNAMENT
OF
PORTO. PRESENT
ALSO THE FOLLOWING TEAMS:: EXTERNATO D. DUARTE,
PEDROUÇOS, MAYAN, M.PORTO, TAEKWONDO OF THE PORT, D.OLIVEIRENSE. (AMAO)
WINS
ITS FIRST PLACE IN MATCHES.
IN 1987
AGAIN WITH THE SURPRISE OF MANY MIRANDELA WINS THE TOURNAMENT "NORTH OF
KUNG FU" IN
PORTO
THE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS.
THE TEAM CONSTITUTING OF
12
ATHLETES, TO WHICH
10
IN 1987
THE
2ª
"MIRANDELA
CUP"
, INVITED:
LAMEGO,
FAMALIÇÃO, PEDROUÇOS, PORT AND FARO. These last CHAMPIONS
NATIONAL
OF KEMPO. (AMAO) IS SUCCESSFUL ONE MORE TIME AND
THE
CUP REMAINS AT
HOME.
IN
1988 - SOME
NATIONAL CLUBS INTENDED TO
PRACTICE THE SYSTEM OF
(AMAO) " THE TOTAL COMBAT " AND JOIN AN
ORGANIZATION SCHOOLS
OF: PORTO,
LAGOS,
PEDROUÇOS, MAIA, MACEDO
CAVALEIROS,
VILA
FLOR,
BRAGANÇA, LISBOA.
IN 1989- WE
PARTICIPATE IN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS OF FULL CONTACT WHERE WE OBTAIN 2
CHAMPIONS AND TWO 2ND
PLACE
CHAMPIONS. THE
CHAMPIONS WERE : ARTHUR
COSTA, EDUARDO DINIZ DE BRAGANCA.
IN 1989 WE ALSO
PARTICIPATED IN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF KUNG-FU IN
PORTO HAVING THE
ATHLETE JOSE RIBEIRO WINS THE
TITLE OF NATIONAL CHAMPION IN COMBAT AND THE
ATHLETE
FERNANDO CERIZ
WINS THE
TITLE OF NATIONAL CHAMPION IN FORMS. BOTH OF
MIRANDELA
ON THE
9TH
and 10TH
OF SEPTEMBER OF 1989, (AMAO) ORGANIZES IN MIRANDELA the
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF FIRST CONTACT IN
WHICH THEY
WIN, REACHING ITS FIRST COLLECTIVE TITLE.
IN THE SAME DATE, (AMAO)
ORGANIZES IN MIRANDELA
THE FIRST IBERIAN CHAMPIONSHIP OF KICK
BOXING LOSING TO THE SPANISH
REPRESENTATIVE. THEY HAD DISPUTED THE
TITLE OF
JOÃO
MARTINEZ PORTUGAL AND JUAN
MORA SPAIN
ON THE 9TH OF
DECEMBER OF 1989, the MASTER JESUS NOVO IS PAID HOMAGE
IN LISBON BY THE
KICK
BOXING FEDERATION IN PORTUGAL.
ON THE
3RD OF
FEBRUARY OF 1990 THE
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP IN VILA FLOR TAKES PLACE.
THE ATHLETES OF OUR ORGANIZATION ARE SUCCESSFUL, PORTO, ESTORIL, LISBON, PEDROUÇOS,
FAMALICÃO AND AVEIRO
1990
MASTER JESUS
NOVO IS
GRADUATED 4º DAN
IN
FRANCE
ON THE
24TH AND 25TH OF MARCH
IN
1990 (AMÃO) CONTRIBUTES WITH 5 ATHLETES TO
THE
NATIONAL SELECTION
OF ATHLETE IN
THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN
FIRST
CONTACT IN HOLLAND. THEY WHERE
THE FOLLOWING: JOSE RIBEIRO,
MICHEL CAMPOS, SARA NASCIMENTO, NARCISO SILVA AND SÔNIA ANTUNES.
THE BEST RESULTES
REACHED HAD BEEN: 2º
PLACE An ATHLETE OF SETÚBAL
and 3º PLACE
JOSE RIBEIRO Of
(AMAO). 
ON
THE
17TH
AND 18TH
OF DECEMBER
THE INTERNATIONAL tournament OF KUNG-FU IN 1990
WITH
TEAMS:
POLAND, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
AN
ATHLETE OF
THE ORGANIZATION
WON THE FIRST
INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION
TITLE.
IN MAY OF
1991. THE FIRST
IBERIAN CHAMPIONSHIP OF FIRST
CONTACT IS ORGANIZED. PORTUGAL LOSES IN MIRANDELA
TO
THE EXPERIENCED SPANISH TEAM
BUT THEIR
WERE
OUTSTANDING CHAMPIONSHIP
VICTORIES IN THIS
CHAMPIONSHIP:
MIGUEL
TAVEIRA, JOÃO LUIS
BARREIRA, JOSE CARLOS
DA
SILVA.
ON THE 16TH
AND 17TH OF
NOVEMBER OF 1991 IN
MIRANDELA AN
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR OF
KUNG-FU WITH THREE
TIME WORLD CHAMPION
EMANUEL BETTENCOURT.
THE
MATCH
BETWEEN MIRANDELA AND THE
INTERNATIONAL TEAM. Victory
FOR THE MULTINATIONAL TEAM BY 3 TO 1.
THOSE
WHO FOUGHT:
MIGUEL
TAVEIRA
MIRANDELA LOSING
TO MEHMET
SAHIN TURKEY
NARCISO
SILVA VILA
FLOR LOSING
TO
LUIS VALDEZ
REP.DOMINICANA
JOÃO
LUIS BARREIRA
MIRANDELA
WON
CANAN YLMAZ TURKEY
THE PORTUGUESE
ORGANIZATION
JOINS THE
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION (IKA).
WE
PARTICIPATED IN THE
INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF MADRID. TEAMS
THAT PARTICIPATED:
PORTUGAL,
SPAIN, AND
ITALY IS CLASSIFIED IN LAST
PLACE.
WE ALSO WIN
THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF NUNCHAKU IN
"MOITA".
THE
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
WITH EMANUEL BETTENCOURT
WAS POSSIBLE
IN THE CITY OF MACEDO
DE CAVALHEIROS
WHERE ONE MORE TIME THEY PARTICIPATE
IN TECHNICS OF SOME POINTS
OF THE COUNTRY.
1992 MASTER JESUS
NOVO
IS GRADUATED 5º DAN SPAIN.
EVERY
YEAR MORE
CLUBS JOIN
TO THE STYLE OF AMAO AND
ALREADY WITH 24 CLUBS SPREAD FOR ALL THE COUNTRY, IT IS CREATED BY WRITINGS
PUBLISHED
IN THE 11TH OF
THE (FPAMM)
ANNUALLY ORGANIZES NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE TWO
ON THE
26TH OF APRIL, 1993
THE PORTUGUESE TEAM
OF (FPAMM) WINS THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF FIRST CONTACT
IN
MADRID
SPAIN.
ON THE
25TH OF SEPTEMBER , 1993 The PORTUGUESE
TEAM
Of (FPAMM) WINS SPANISH IN
In THE FIRST IBERIAN
CHAMPIONSHIP OF KUNG FU IN
LAGOS.
IN MAY OF 1994 IN
MIRANDELA: IBERIAN CHAMPIONSHIP OF FIRST
CONTACT, PORTUGAL
SHININGLY
WINS.
BETWEEN
SEVERAL OTHER CHAMPIONSHIPS
WE REMEMBER THE VICTORY OF (AMAO), IBERIAN CHAMPIONS, TEAMS
COMING FROM
GERMANY AND DETAINED
OF THE EUROPEAN TITLE
.BY
TEAMS.
The MATCH WAS REALIZED
IN MIRANDELA ON
31/07/1994
THEY HAD FOUGHT:
JOÃO
LUIS BARREIRA
MIRANDELA WINS ANAN
YLMAZ TURKEY
MIGUEL TAVEIRA
MIRANDELA WINS
MEHMET SAHIM TURKEY
VALTER SILVESTRE
MIRANDELA LOSES WITH LUIS
VALDEZ REP.DOMINICANA
IN
OCTOBER
OF
1994 CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD OF LIGHT CONTACT IN ALCORCON
PORTUGAL
GETS 2º PLACE FOR TEAMS .
THE TEAM CONSTITUTED THE
FOLLOWING:
CEZÁRIO
LEITAO, VALTER
SILVESTRE,
RUI MOUTINHO,
PA
ULO NEIVA, NARCIS0 SILVA, RUI RAMALHEIRO, RUI PIMENTA, SARA NASCIMENTO, LILIANA MOREIRATHE TITLE OF
WORLD-OPEN
TOURNAMENT IN
1994 WAS WON BY,
VALTER SILVESTER
ON THE
13TH OF MAY , 1995 THE
CHAMPIONSHIP Of the WORLD OF FIRST CONTACT IN HAMBURG,
GERMANY.
PORTUGAL TOOK
4 ATHLETES:
2 IN
CLASSIFIED " " MIGUEL TAVEIRA
7º CLASSIFIED.. SARA NASCIMENTO
4ª CLASSIFIED.
2 IN
CLASSIFIED " B " JOÃO LUIS
BARREIRA 6º CLASSIFIED
VALTER
SILVESTRE
2º CLASSIFIED " B "
ON THE 17TH
OF JUNE 1995 TEAM
MIRANDELA PARTICIPATES IN THE OPEN OF LOUSADA AND
ITS
ADVERSARIES IN FIRST CONTACT COMBAT OF FREE FIGHT.
THE
FIRST FIGHT LASTED
ONE MINUTE WITH THE
VICTORY OF THE ATHLETE FROM
MIRANDELA CEZÁRIO
LEITAO.
THE
REMAINING ADVERSARIES OF THE MIRANDELA ATHLETES REFUSED TO CONTINUE TO FIGHT IT
CONSIDERING THAT THEY MAY
NOT HAVE CONDITIONS TO CONFRONT TEAM MIRANDELA.
THE TEAM OF
(FPAMM) CONTINUE THEIR
VICTORY'S AND ON THE 22 OF MAY OF
1996 the
MASTER JESUS
NOVO IS GRADUATED 6º DAN OF
KUNG-FU.
ON THE
28TH OF SEPTEMBER 1996 THE MASTER
JESUS
NOVO
RECEIVES FROM THE CONFEDERATION OF
SPORT FROM PORTUGAL
A TROPHY NAMING
HIM THE PROMINENT PERSON IN THE NATIONAL
SPORT.
ON THE 28TH OF JUNE
OF 1997 THE PORTUGUESE TEAM
PARTICIPATED IN THE IBERIAN CHAMPIONSHIP OF
FIRST CONTACT AND THE INTERNATIONAL OF LIGHT CONTACT.
CHAMPIONS OF THE IBERIAN CHAMPIONSHIP : VÍTOR NOVO, ANDRE ALVES, HELIO MACHADO,
JOSE
THE
FOLLOWING WERE THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS:
SANDRA
DIAS, JOSÉ CARLOS
DA SILVA, PEDRO MORES.
IN 1998
MASTER
JESUS
NOVO
WAS PAID
HOMAGE BY THE
THE
CONFEDERATION OF SPORT FROM PORTUGAL ,
NAMING HIM THE MOST PROMINENT PERSON IN THE NATIONAL SPORT.
THE
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP TOOK PLACE ON THE
19/20/21 OF MARCH
ROBERTO
RODRIGUES EUROPEAN
CHAMPION
JOSÉ
CARLOS SILVA 7º CLASS
JOÃO VARELA,
2º CLASS
HÉLIO
GONÇALVES 4º CLASS
PAULO TEIXEIRA,
3º CLASS.
MÁRIO
FARIA, 3º
CLASS
SANDRA DIAS,
4ª CLASS
MONICA VIANA, 3º
CLASS.
CARLA
BRAS., 4ª CLASS.
HENRIQUE CUNHA, 6º
CLASS HÉLIO
MACHADO, 7º CLASS.
ANDRÉ
SILVA. 7º CLASS
EUROPEAN
CHAMPIONSHIP OF
KUNG-FU ON THE
16/17 OF
MAY
IN
BARCELONA.
THE
PORTUGUESE TEAM CONSTITUTED THE FOLLOWING: ROBERTO RODRIGUES,
EUROPEAN CHAMPION PEDRO
MORES 2º CLASS. SANDRA
DIAS 3ª CLASS. RUI
MOUTINHO 3º
CLASS. JOÃO LUÍS BARREIRA 3º
CLASS JOSÉ
CARLOS SILVA, 5º
CLASS.
NARCISO
SILVA 4º CLASS. MÁRIO
FARIA 4º CLASSIFICADO HÉLIO
GONÇALVES
DURING THE
YEAR OF I999 A
(FPAMM)
BEGINS TO ADAPT TO
THE NEW REALITY OF COMBATE SPORT. THE FPAMM MAKE A THE IMPORTANT DECISION TO
ALTER THE PRESENT FEDERATION TO:
PORTUGUES FEDERATION OF PANKRATION ATHLIMA.
FOLLOWING THE RULES OF
THE INTERNATIONAL
FEDERATION OF PANKRATION ATHLIMA
WHICH REQUIRES THE TO HAVE ALL SYMBOLS AND FEDERATION NAME ALTERED ACCORDING TO
THE IFPA.
THEIR THE PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION
BEGAN UTILIZING THE SIGNATURE NAME
(PANKRATION ATHLIMA) AND THE
EMBLEM OF THE
MATCHING ALL THE OTHER FEDERATIONS,
BUT WITH THE COUNTRY BEING THE DIFFERENCE.
WE ALSO
TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO ALTER THE STATUS OF THE FEDERATION AND MAKING SURE IT
WAS COMPATIBLE TO THE PORTUGUESE SPORTIVE SYSTEM.
MASTER
JESUS NOVO IS
GRADUATED 7º DAN IN KUNG FU
THROUGH
OUT THE YEAR MANY TRIPS TO SPAIN WERE ORGANIZED TO BETTER OUR KNOWLEDGE OF 
THE
MODERN PANKRATION AND FINALLY ON THE
6TH OF
APRIL
OF
2000 PORTUGUESE
FEDERATION OF PANKRATION ATHLIMA CIS
LEGALLY REGISTERED WITH HEADQUARTERS ON STREET:
VASCO DA GAMA N.º 54 IN MIRANDELA.
THROUGH
THIS DAY FORWARD,
THE NAME OF THE FEDERATION IS OFFICIALLY USED AND RECOGNIZED IN COMPETITION.
(PANKRATION)
THROUGH OUT THE YEAR 2000 MANY NATIONAL TOURNAMENTS ARE ORGANIZED, BUT WE HAVE NOT YEAST PARTICIPATED IN AN INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT.
IN 2000,THE PORTUGUESE FEDERATION OF PANKRATION ATHLIMA, BECOMES A CANDIDATE FOR THE European CHAMPIONSHIP BRINGING TO PORTUGAL EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP OF PANKRATION IN 2001. IT WILL BE REALIZED ON THE 1/2/3/4 OF NOVEMBER IN (OVAR) PORTUGAL.
WITH
THE MOTIVATION TO BETTER HIS STUDENTS, THEIR WILL ALSO BE ANOTHER TOURNAMENT
ORGANIZED IN PORTUGAL
INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF PANKRATION OLYMPIC
AND FREE FIGHT
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