“Telling Me My Kata Needed Improved Attitude” Encounter With The Great Robert Haliburton R.I.P.

It was the Second Living Legends Roast in Houston, Texas at Jim Harrison’s Roast that I had a few of the karate legends coming for the event and Robert was one of them. Robert was a true Legend, and a part of Japan Ways, a Shotokan School in Houston, with Jim Arwood and George Minshew in the early 60s before George created his Black Belt Academy Empire. I had met Robert when Stuart Quan R.I.P and I would drive from Modesto, California down through California to Fresno, where I met Robert. I knew he was special; he had a talent for fighting and kata, which was exceptional. He had a