The 40-year-old Grandmaster, How dare he?
Bruce Lee was in his late 20s when he founded his art of Jeet Kune Do.
Hwang Kee was 31 when he combined Soo Bahk Do / Tae-Kyon, Karate, out of books, with the Chinese T'ang method and developed Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan.
Mas Oyama At age 40 established his Kyokushinkai headquarters.
Grandmaster Kang Uk Lee 6th Dan in Tang Soo Do at the age of 29 and by the age of 40 received his 9th Dan.
Grandmaster Ji, Han Jae studied with, Yong Sool Choi for only three years from ‘53 until ‘56, before opening his own school, In 1957, Ji Han Jae held the rank of 3rd Dan in Yu Sool. In 1959 Six years after starting with Yong Sool Choi, Ji Han Jae was the first person to use the name "Hap Ki Do,” and is considered by many to be the founder of Hap Ki Do.
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Jigoro Kano born in 1860 studied Jiu-Jitsu for the first time in 1877
And by 1882 at the tender age of 22 he founded Judo.
Leaders, as the aforementioned founded great arts such as Judo, Isshinryu, Tang Soo Do, Kyokushinkai, Hapkido and many other martial arts at a young, some at a very young age and with little experience. But why is it that only Asians can found their own style or system after only a few years of training and at such a young age, yet Americans with dozens of years of training in the martial arts who develop their own system are looked down upon?
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Thank You to My Instructors Phil Alsobrook, Tony Ramey, Bruce Corrigan, Lee Gar Lin,
Eddie Pagan, and Paul Vunak for keeping it REAL !!!