Sure, an OP can state an opinion. It’s a good way to start a discussion over the topic, especially if you’re looking for alternative views and thoughts that country your own position.
The Tao is a bit of a mess, though one issue is folks blaming Lee for that mess. I have lots of quotes and learned thoughts in my notebooks, whether, MA, business, personal growth, or whatever. Since they were thoughts I collected for my own perusal, I didn’t bother with attribution for most of them. But that’s not problematic unless someone distills those notebooks and publishes the result.
In San Francisco.
Only secret I have is between me and my witness relocation handler. Wait... I mean...
Well I asked, so I can own it. I will re read it and see if I can give some context.
You will never get to be a real boy…
On the other hand, you have a book like Kodokan Judo, which was compiled by a committee( as it states in the book), where the early edition don't state an author, yet later edition credit the book to Jigoro Kano, who died 17 years before the first edition was printed.
If I'm remembering right, didn't the two of them live/train together and write that book together? It's just only one of them was listed as the author on the book itself.
Actually it’s a longer story. But in the end more than 80%of the book is Woo. Parker stole it, gave no credit, signed the publishing deal without telling Woo, kept the proceeds and never acknowledged the facts.
That’s likely the story that EP ke-po sycophants will tell, but that is not all the facts.
That's how good he was.
When Parker was looking for Chinese gung fu influence to add to his martial art his friend brought him up to S.F. To the Hop Sing Tong where Lau Bun taught. James Wing Woo lived with T.Y. Wong at that time who also taught members at that time. Woo was introduced to Parker there by the mutual friend who brought Parker to S.F. from L.A. Woo was convinced to come to L.A. and help teach at the school Parker had there. The book idea came not long after. After the split, a number of the students (many of whom are notables of the 1960s) decided to go with Woo and they opened a school that used to be a morticians building, followed by his Students constructing a Kwoon (where I met and trained with Woo) for Woo on his property in Hollywood. Sifu James Ibrao, Sifu Leo Whang, Sifu Rich Montgomery, and quite a few others that were there tell the story consistently this way. Interestingly, a certain sect of kempo refer to Sifu Woo as Grandmaster, which he publicly scoffed at, the rest of kempoists have never even heard of him even though he is the original source for some of their material. He spoke about it during training once, and again during his interview with Jess for Nei Jia Quan. Simo Eve did not spare words or emotion when it came up in her presence. That’s probably more than you wanted to know…
Well my challenges were just educated guesses on my part. If Im wrong then Im wrong.
Well maybe Im learning too, as Johnny Lawrence said in the second season of Cobra Kai.
Why does the OP want to share his opinion online with some "random forum strangers" (a new term I have just learned)?
Could be specifically to see if there are other views. Or because they hope to educate others. Or because they like to talk. Or because…
Why not? People do stuff like that on the internet all the time. That's part of what posting on forums is all about.
