Thank you all

I posted some more podcasts last week and astonished to see there have been almost 30,000 downloads since June of 2010. I've gotten some good feedback, too. One that comes to mind is that they are "not kenpo-centric". That's what I was aiming for.
    I've also uploaded some more clips to www.kenpotv.net and should hit 1,050 this week. The new site is about to go live, so watch for an announcement on that.
   With the Thanksgiving holiday here, I wanted to say thanks for watching and listening.

For you aviation buffs

I found that this B-25 bomber is based about 20 minutes from here in Georgetown, TX. I sat in the cockpit and was told I could work toward a type-rating in it. Just what you need, me in a bomber.
http://vimeo.com/30331646

Who changed the names?

Information related to the recent poll on this site. I've left it up so you can see the results.

I always wondered about the difference in the technique names between the Parker and Tracy schools. Did the Tracy's leave Mr. Parker and change the names? Or did he change them after they left and opened their own schools? Who felt the need to make that change so they could be different from the other?
I could see reasons for either party to do this, so I asked around. What I was told was that it was Mr. Parker who made the changes.
If anyone has more info, I'd like to hear it.  

New article at www.leewedlake.com

I have posted the November article for subscribers on my site. It's on what I call the "shooting gallery effect". Here's an excerpt.

I was told many years ago that what makes us different from other systems is our rules and principles. It’s what makes any system different from another. Each has its own set of rules they go by. Even if it’s “no rules”.

We look at motion and determine what guideline is in use. Is it a power principle, method of execution, type of contouring, etc? Normally we see what we expect to because we ask ourselves why we would do some combination of rules and how they are supported by a rule or principle. It may be better to ask ourselves why we would not do something. I have found that to a fruitful way to analyze what I do.

Gil Hibben at the Alamo

I was in San Antonio and went to visit the Alamo. In the museum/gift shop there, in a case, was a Gil Hibben Bowie knife. What a pleasant surprise to see my friend's work there.
And before one of you wise guys says it, no- I'm sure he DIDN'T drop it there.

On filters

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood.
 The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
 "That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."
Her husband looked on, but remained silent.
 Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.
 About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."
 The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows.”
And so it is with life.
 What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.

In my opinion...

...this is how many instructors teach.

obscurantism \uhb-SKYOORr-uhn-tiz-uhm\, noun:
1. Opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
2. Deliberate obscurity or evasion of clarity.