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The owner and director of Five Birds Industries, has been a martial arts student for almost 50 years. He has also been a teacher of English Composition,Film as Literature, Creative Writing, Scriptwriting and Martial Arts for 2/3 of that time. Like any good journalist, he never made himself the story. On June 19th, 2010, Gordon was inducted into the Martial Arts Masters Hall of Fame. The next year he published his first novel, SHIDOSHI:The Four Ways of the Corpse and was then inducted into the U.S.A. Martial Arts Hall of Fame and the Legends Hall of Fame, both with Book of the Year awards. Barbara Rich, his wife and Gordon have been working and writing together for 10 years. She is the author of The Gradual Diet and is known as Ageless1der to family and friends. She is also one of 15 contributors to The Five Principles of Everything.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Jhoon Rhee – Changing The World

In the following interview with Jhoon Rhee, published at worldwidedojo.com in the column, LEGENDS AND LEGACIES that I share with Frank Dux, you can hear this martial arts visionaries wild dream of a world where everyone tells the truth.
To go straight to the Jhoon Rhee article, click the link below.
Jhoon Rhee – Changing The World

I Hugged Benny The Jet Urquidez

Below is the link to the article that many of you have been waiting for...my interview with Benny The Jet Urquidez, posted this date (9-10-11) in my LEGENDS And Legacies Column at WORLD WIDE DOJO.

To go strait to the URQUIDEZ ARTICLE, click the link below.
I Hugged Benny The Jet Urquidez

Sunday, September 4, 2011

A Message in a Bottle from Dr. Goldie Mack

Outside the Masters Hall of Fame event, I had the chance to meet and speak with Dr. Goldie Mack. He offered this beautiful, concise bit of wisdom outside the Anaheim Convention Center event.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

2012 Masters Hall of Fame Awards

Gordon Richiusa, Ed Parker Jr. and Frank Dux pose for pictures after the Masters Hall of Fame Award Presentations, which took place last night. This year's event was entertaining and well organized. Gordon and Ed Parker Jr. are wearing their Alumni medals. Frank Dux was inducted for his Lifetime Achievements along with a variety of others, including Cynthia Rothrock. The entertainment consisted, in part of a kyudo demonstration (there is one here on this blog, from Kyoto Japan). This Japanese Zen form of archery is unique and beautiful and will be covered soon in our Legends and Legacies column, at WorldWideDojo.com. Stay tuned.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

A Woman of Judo

Take a look at this video of the highest ranking woman, Kodakan Judo-ka.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Dana Stamos--Message in a Bottle

Dana Stamos--owner of Martial Arts Enterprises, Inc. and publisher of the Legends and Legacies series, by Gordon Richiusa, gives her MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE comments:

Legends and Legacies--Premiers on World Wide Dojo

Hello all. This is just a short note to announce the creation of the LEGENDS AND LEGACIES column, which will now run monthly in World Wide Dojo Magazine. The first contributions by or about yours truly have already been published. If you go to www.worldwidedojo.com you will see some tabs at the top of the page. Click on TRADITIONAL and there you will see an article about Five Birds Martial Arts, some advertising for my novel SHIDOSHI:The Four Ways of the Corpse and my article on Ji Han Jae, exclusive to World Wide Dojo Magazine. This article will be combined with the other comments by Ji Han Jae that appeared previously in another magazine for the book Legends and Legacies of the Martial Arts, to be published next year. For now, take a look at the magazine and read the article about me, my style and my writing career. Or, if you prefer, go directly to this link for the Ji Han Jae article, regarding legacy>>>Ji Han Jae, by Gordon Richiusa