Do you have a link to any of his stuff Mike?
I loved fighting, it was great fun and excercise as well. What was difficult for me was to get my head in a place where I didn't fight like the big man. As Calvin always said, stregnth is good, but technique will make you 10 times stronger than your muscles will.
I've lifted weights my whole life, well, since my freshman year of high school anyway, so I was incredibly strong, and much larger than my instructors, but Calvin, who was probably 5'5" to my 6' and 140 to my 260, would routinely whip my butt. Talk about having the ego beaten out of you.
Sadly, I had a lapse and was being the big man when I destroyed my knee. It's not a good feeling to twist the socket apart like that. It wasn't even a real throw the way they should be done, I just grabbed the guys arms and tossed him. He hung onto the sleeves of my gi. I had planted my foot thinking I was done moving, his momentum twisted my knee apart. I still miss training a lot of the time.
Madda
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. -- Leonardo Da Vinci
Tact is for those who lack the wit for sarcasm.--maddafinga