Back from Vegas and the Amazing Michael Felkoff
Several weeks back I went out to CES to handle some business and also too time out to meet Master Michael Felkoff, formerly of Chicago. Master Felkoff is, along with Nganga Tolo-naa(Ray Cooper) a master of the “Secret Family Style of Yang” Tai Chi. Master Felkoff was a friend of John Keehan’s and accompanied him […]
FBI Files: BOMBING MATTERS: 80 pages on Keehan
I have always had a certain confidence in good bureacrats. After a year I finally got the FBI records I was looking for for John Keehan aka Juan R. Dante. But this is already confusing, or shall I say once again confusing. Something is definitely missing here and the question is do I go back […]
Johnny Coulon: Count Dante’s first teacher and Mining MY Memory
Looking back to my early youth in the 1960s, my first years in Chicago living on South State Street in the Harold Ickes Projects, and a block from the Cermak and State Street “L,” the Howard/Jackson/Englewood line. It was the lifeline of Chicago’s Southside public transportation system. I think of how we used to hop […]
Still Going Strong, full speed ahead in 2007!
It has been over a month since my last post. Lots of end of the year stuff to deal with regarding work, company partnerships, family, health etc., etc. I am going out on another interview first week of January 2007. Luckily it will be part of a work assignment. I am working this week on […]
John Keehan and Ed Parker
I was doing some research tonight and came across a site about Ed Parker, Kenpo Karate Setting History Right 1960-1962.I am really trying to get these origins and exposures right. I think understanding the basis of his martial arts education may give me some insight into how I will structure this part of the film. […]
Victor Moore
I spoke with Victor Moore some months back about his association with John Keehan. He was a contemporary and was at Robert Trias’s school along with Keehan and they worked out together in Arizona. I am hoping that Mr. Moore will be able to give us some insight into the realtionship between Keehan and Trais […]
Black Dragons in Oak Park
Looks like it has almost been a month since my last post. I got lots to tell but not all of it today. I met these two guys in the photo whose names I will reveal later in my own back yard of Oak Park, IL. They are students of one of Doug Dwyer’s students. […]
“…he had hands like a woman…”
I recieved a videotape of fight footage from England. It contained old black and white footage of fights with legendary point fighter Joe Lewis offering commentary with an unidentified interviewer. During his fight with Victor Moore he starts talking about Count Dante. Victor Moore was a student of Master Robert Trias as well. I have […]
New discoveries about the Green Dragons Society and Internet Dojo Copyright Wars?
Got an email asking me if I knew that the lineage of the Green Dragon school may have been descended from Ku Yu Cheung. If this is true that is some serious background. Ku Yu Cheung was one of the legendary Iron Palm practitioners. Yu-Cheung was said to have the most devastating iron palm in […]
Origins of Larceny and Ironic Aftermaths or Say it Ain’t So, John
I found a report from the Chicago Tribune Sept. 9, 1968. There was a truck robbery after one of Dante’s tournaments. and many think he engineered this theft himself. Is this where his definitive fall into the dark side begins? Witnessess are still alive. I have already interviewed Art Rapkin. I have extra questions for […]