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Reflections, Gratitude, Goal Setting, and Legacy
As I was running today, I was thinking about the new edition of the Who’s Who in Martial Arts: Masters and Pioneers, produced by my friend, Jessie Bowen. It has a great backstory and can be appreciated by—and instructive for—all of us in the martial arts. In my own backstory, on my first trip to fight in Madison Square Garden in 1968, Chuck Norris had invited me to California to train. When I finally made it out there in 1972, that experience changed the trajectory of my competition career and the direction of my professional life. Jumping forward to 2020, I had the pleasure of collaborating with Jessie Bowen and