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I had adopted the Bruce Lee philosophy of “absorb what is useful” to learn as much as I could about other martial arts and to look for the good and the bad of each martial arts system. I started to cross-train in different systems to develop my own personal fighting style.

A big martial arts reality check came when I became a police officer in 1981 for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. During the police educational process, I quickly found out what did and did not work on the streets. Theory and practice met the streets of L.A., dojo, and home training.

Becoming a police officer further stimulated my martial arts growth because the job exposed me daily to life-and-death situations, situations in which split-second decisions needed to be made regarding whether to use force and, if so, what type and how to use it. I was confronted daily by the lessons of which martial arts techniques did and did not work on the street.

While a police officer, I studied boxing and won more gold medals in boxing than anyone else in the history of the California Police Olympics. Competitive boxing gave me a newfound appreciation for boxers and the rigors they must endure to be on top of their sport! The contact is very real and cardiovascular conditioning is vital, as opposed to the practice and training of many “deadly” martial arts systems.