Blast from the past

1986 in Indiana. Barry Moyer coordinated a seminar there sponsored by Wendy's hamburgers. This is the same Barry Moyer who runs the WRBBOF today. (Good guy.) Pete Tomaino in Chicago had been chasing this photo for 25 years when I realized I'd been in contact with Barry thru Facebook and he was the same person. Take a close look and you'll see Mr. Parker holding a corner of the Wendy's banner. I'm in the front row, looking back, and sitting next to Eric Lee, who is next to Tadashi Yamashita. Ted Tabura is right behind me. Billy Blanks is in there, so is Ernie Reyes, both Sr and Jr. (next to Yamashita). There are some other well-known people in there such as Ronald Duncan and Mike Replogle. It's a cool shot and I thank Mr. Moyer for getting it to us.  

Texas event update

Steve White and I are promoting the Kenpo Senior Conference here in Austin the last week of October. The senior instructors are settling on their subjects and registrations are starting to come in. There is limited seating for the dinner on Saturday, so get registered for that ASAP. So far, people have registered from Missouri, Florida and Germany. Registration and room reservations are found at www.wedlakekenpotv.com/KenpoSeniorConference.

Home Defense

I sent a message to John McGregor at the Sig Academy as to what he recommended for a home defense shotgun. He and my old friend Doug Kimme both recommend the Remington 870. But on John's podcast he goes into more depth on the answer with his co-host. He used my question as part of the show. Here's the link. http://www.gunfightercast.com/wordpress/2012/05/13/gc-061-question-show/

Update

The registration page is almost done. You'll be able to pre-register, add a guest for dinner if you plan to bring someone along and add an event t-shirt (which you'll pick up at the event). The registration pages are on my site. www.wedlakekenpotv.com/KenpoSeniorConference We have added a another lineage instructor. In addition to Brian Duffy, Ron Sanchez, Graham Lelliott, Marc Sigle, Bruce Meyer, Glenn Haley and Steve White we have Tom Graves of Seattle coming.

 Check the site and get onboard ASAP. We're looking forward to seeing you in Texas.

May article posting

My May article is on the Three Faults. Premium subscribers at www/wedlakekenpotv.com/leewedlake can read the article. Subscriptions are available at $29/yr. Here's an excerpt.

Professor Cheng referred to Greediness as a fault. He quotes Lao Tzu and says “Have little and receive much; have much and be confused.” He also refers to a Chinese saying of “If one is greedy nothing can be thoroughly chewed.” Both Cheng and Mr. Parker were saying that if you want to get it all as fast as you can you’ll likely end up with little or nothing. Cheng specified that if you want to know everything you’ll come away frustrated. He says you should learn something, and then practice to polish and memorize. Funny, Mr. Parker used to use the term “polish” frequently. He’d refer to “spit-shining” us. Both agree that is takes time.

www.wedlakekenpotv.com

We're working away at cleaning up the new site. Scott added a search button and he's planning playlists.
I have resequenced the techniques and other material to match the historical material and broken out basics. etc to make it a bit easier. He still has to upload that but it's coming.
  I found that some stuff got lost in the transfer. It's like moving, you  miss things that are in some box somewhere. But, we're making progress.
  I have shot more extensions, more basic terminology and some stick work. The upload process from here has not been smooth so that's going to take a little while to get the new info up.
  Comments, questions, suggestions can be sent to me at lee@leewedlake.com.

One of my old t-shirts