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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.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Bob Ozman: My First Karate Instructor


Below is the latest article found at WorldWideDojo.com, in my Legends and Legacies column. I hope you enjoy reading about Bob Ozman, my first karate instructor.
There were also three other archived columns posted at WWDJ, in various spots on the site. One was written for Karate Illustrated by me and Bob, about HIS main karate instructor, grandmaster Shimabuku, the creator of Isshinryu. I also had written about Johnny Atkinson (one of Bob's students, who was teaching for him when I first started lessons 48 years ago. Johnny passed away in the early 1990s, but the whole series shows the strong bond between martial arts students and their instructors. I hope you enjoy, and if you do, please let the publisher know by clicking "like" or dropping a note by email.
Thanks.

Bob Ozman: My First Karate Instructor


Bob Ozman: My First Karate Instructor
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