First, please, please, PLEASE learn how to spell 'origInal'. It's not 'origOnal' with an 'O', ok? Second, I'm not a kid or your kid. I've been involved in martial arts for a long time (1981) and I'm pretty certain that I've been involved in jkd a lot longer than you. I have instructor credentials in five systems (jun fan, kali, silat, muay thai and combat submission wrestling) and I'm working on two more (bjj and savate). I have no interest in politics whatsoever, either. I am simply defending the honor of two men that I respect immensely, namely sifus Dan Inosanto and Paul Vunak. If I recall, in an earlier thread, you said jkd is not a mixture of 26 arts as some in the concepts group imply. Whether you realize it or not, people like me will take that as an underhanded implication that these two great instructors don't know or are lying to their students and public. I take offense to that. If you want to call that 'politics' then so be it, I guess I'll engage in some 'politics'.
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