Note all real martial artblications have Bruce Lee photos sooner or later.

  

Bruce died before I began Isshinryu,

but I took Maureen on our 2^nd date to a Bruce Lee movie.

 

An interesting story is how I found about the martial arts.  When I was young I saw a fewTV shows that featured karate, but that was all. Just prior to going to college my father bought me a Brice Tegner book about katate, and while I attended college I began buying Black Belt magazine , as I  found it interesting.

 

Then in College I joined the dorm memhers watching tv in the dorm basement and remember us watching the Green Hornet with Bruce Lee as Kato,   Several years later I recall meeting a graduate student inSpeech who had trained with Bruce Lee as an undergraduate at the University of Washingtion in Seattle. He demonstrated some of his kung fu training to us. However I admidt not knowing what he was doing.

 

I lived out in the Pacific Northwest for a few years and when I returned to Pa. I began to work for my previous employerin NE Phila,  managing a bargain store.

One night in 1972 I went down to central city Philadelphia to see the midnight show of a new movie, The Five Fingers of Death. The huge theater was packed, many thousands of viewers. Simply the movie blew all of us away.

 

After that kung fu movie followed kung fu movie. There were oodles of them, many were quite bad, but some were good. On the tv the show Kung Fu was showing. The martial arts were here to stay.