Back in 1979 I obtained my Black Belt in January. Then in
April Charles Murray returned to the
USAF for his career, and I was totally alone with none of my instructors under
Sensei Lewis living near to me. They were all 7 of so hours away from Scranton
Pa.
There was far less
information available on Isshinryu in those days. Perhaps a few books and
occasional magazine articles, none of which was the Isshinryu I studied under
Sensei Lewis and Charles Murray.
Well I bought a small book filled with blank pages and began
recording everything I could remember, and material from those aforementioned
books and magazine. It was just for me.
I still have it, but that was the beginning of my notebooks on
everything I experienced in the arts.
Looking at it now I
see many things spelled very differently than one would find today. Isshinryu as I experienced it was never a
spelling test. I would record things as I heard them, my own phonetic spellings.
However that worked for me.
That effort showed me the power of making notes later to be used in so many different ways.
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