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After years of longing, I finally began my martial arts training as a teen in the 1960s at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, studying with returning Vietnam War combat vets. I had thought I would be learning the grappling method of judo, but it turned out to be a form of karate striking and kicking. I took to the training with near religious commitment, and my martial arts training became a primary part of my personal identity. There is a science of combat that empowers a gentle-of-spirit person to defeat a rough and brutal antagonist when necessary? I had to have that!

Monk warriors on the Kung-Fu TV show inspired me in the early 1970s. They possessed enlightened spiritual intelligence coupled with compassionate care for others on one hand, and awesome physical protector powers on the other. There really is a tradition of mythic greatness based on timeless ideals of self-development and fullness of awakening human potential? Realms of mind and even spiritual power in the martial arts? I had to have that!