Skip Ellsworth in new Bruce Lee biography

[misplayed-hand]

I just checked out Matthew Polly's new 500 page biography on Bruce Lee from my local library's new non-fiction section. I thought some might be interested to learn that a man named Skip Ellsworth is mentioned on pages 95, 96, 98-102, 108, 109, 114.


Pretty soon several students at the Seattle Judo Club, where Jesse was an assistant instructor, began inquiring if they could learn from Bruce. One of them was Skip Ellsworth, who grew up as the only white kid on an Indian reservation, fighting Native American youths on a daily basis amid dismal poverty. "During Bruce's very brief first demonstration of his kung fu, he hit me in the chest with both palms so hard that my feet left the ground and I flew backwards for what seemed like ten feet before I slammed into a wall," Skip remembers. "Nothing like that had ever happened to me before. It only took Bruce Lee approximately two seconds to make a true believer out of me.""


Bruce's street-tough students introduced him to another crucial aspect of American culture - guns. Leroy Garcia and Skip Ellsworth taught Bruce how to shoot pistols, revolvers, rifles and shotguns. The gave him his first gun, a Colt .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol with black handle grips. "Bruce totally loved it," says Skip."

[panderson03]

wow. so very cool! I'm going to have to add that one to my reading list! thanks

[Shark]

That's pretty cool.
I was lucky enough to take the class in their awesome home, but never got to meet Skip.

[Marsha]

I am new here, need lots of information about building a log home. Are there any classes planned?

[panderson03]

https://www.buildloghomes.org/shop/

[loghousenut]

Marsha, don't stay new for long. We'd love to have you over on the member's side of the forum.


PS... You just missed a class last weekend.

[adubar]

wow. so very cool! I'm going to have to add that one to my reading list! thanks

You might want to look up Sid Woodcock related to that time period. There may be a link to Skip's history there too. Though I don't know the exact dates that Bruce and Sid knew each other, Sid did bring his background as WWII OSS in China and later Indo-China after the CIA was organized as an in-theater operative. Sid had learned and taught Japanese and Chinese arts and at the time he knew Lee, he brought more to the table in terms of developed knowledge of Chin Na (joint locking, controls and takedowns) which he shared with Bruce and his students.

As a civilian, Sid was in the arms trade and helped bring the Detonics (smallest 45 based upon the 1911) to market. He taught weapons and armed combat as well. As instructor to CIA operatives and later civilian life.

It might be that both Lee and Skip met him at that time. The firearms interest would be a commonality and certainly the wider firearms interest public was fairly well integrated on a social level in Seattle back in the day. Sid was never far from both martial arts or firearms. He thought of them as all martial arts. A weapon, is a weapon, regardless if it has black powder or not -- an extension of the human body.

I tend to think that Bruce held similar views.

[panderson03]

Thanks, Adubar!

[Basil]

I took the last class that skip taught, in the house. My wife started watching Northern Exposure recently, and it brought back a lot of memories of that wild place.

[loghousenut]

I just watched an old episode of Gunsmoke... The one where Chester and Miss Kitty stole Doc's buggy and hightailed it toward Wichita.

The buggy reminded me of Skip's place.

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[Ellsworth]

Today it occurred to me that the .223 round might have been inspired by the '223 women' of WWI.

But, I don't know enough to have a real opinion about it.

[Ellsworth]

I recently heard this version of I Am Stretched on Your Grave for the first time.

https://youtu.be/s8EQQK-uN2Y?si=uzy4x9IrwGsnsn9x

After about 1.5 days of research, I now understand that song differently than in my youth.
In my youth I had the same understanding as expressed by this man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvF_JsSgtVU

I believe it's worth expressing that the song works masterfully as one about the long struggle for Ireland's independence and unification.
It was not just the singer, in the first video from 1980, who sang a powerful rendition.
It was not just the singer's name, which would have been called out as "King, Phillip!" during a roll call.
It was not just his worker's coveralls, nor his age in 1970 and 1980 and the events around those times (arguably the prime of his youth and the prime of middle age).
It was not just the Pavilion, which provided shelter to the singer and audience and which might mirror one possible meaning of the song lyrics "blackthorn and [hoax?] frost."

It was almost every line and every word that caused me to add to my understanding.

The hardest line to 'reinterpret' for me is the one about a maiden head intact, but one way it can work is if it symbolizes virtue (which knows no gender).
And that the judgement was perhaps expressed to a comrade after a battle.
Or could be referencing the Principle of Double Effect. Or perhaps it's statement of desired outcome -- a unified nation after the blackthorn and frost.
I'm thinking about this section.

Regarding the second link/video in this post, I had never heard of Hozien before, but I have just watched a few interviews.
Hozien seems like a smarter man than I, and may have known of alternate interpretations.
Watching his performance led me to compare the the US Wikipedia page for this song, to the one for Rocky Road to Dublin.
He did a good rendition too.

I do not take this proposal lightly and my research did not start from scratch.
Considering the topic, it's worth mentioning that as a complicated Agnostic I earned a BPhil from a Jesuit college after earning an A.A. degree from a Community College.

I do not know which topic is potentially more of a 'hot coal in the hand' for me, that song or Bruce Lee, and I mean that with deep respect.

[Ellsworth]

Since I'm mentioning tough topics, there's a another that carries particular gravitas for me, the Civil War.

Both sides called different men with the name Ellsworth a hero.

In the vernacular of the era, I would probably best be described as an Anti-Federalist leaning Abolitionist who adopts general nonviolence.

I have met one person who was both an ardent, anti-abortionist and a staunch Democrat.
He held both views simultaneously, for he grew up in foster care, but only because he had been spared the knife.
His position is surely difficult to hold, but it is not a logical contradiction.

I made a mistake once, in an unfamiliar place, going about what anyone would consider, safe, ordinary business.
Due to stress, haste or just the lull/mundaneness of ordinary life (aka, because I'm normal), I missed the picture before telling a story. Hindsight is 20/20, and anyone can be took.

Therefore, for the foreseeable future, if I speak about Bruce Lee and his students it will be publicly, on the internet, and as permanent as possible.
Most likely on this forum.

Starting with these three things:


I hold no belt and have always said, "My father taught me enough about Kung Fu to be dangerous, to myself."

I am still a student of whatever topic I speak about, and will be for life.

Two pictures might summarize one aspect of Jesse Glover (or two aspects, or more aspects). He was the first African American I met and I passed the sociological/psychological based experiment regarding race that he cooked up, my father cooked up, or they both collaborated on.



https://community.loghomebuilders.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=4590&d=1717883308

These are not the easiest topics for me to think/write about and I try to approach them with humility and the knowledge/worry that I might express something incorrectly or have a misunderstanding. So I will ask forgiveness for that in advance, and please know that the motive is to share perspectives for the common good.

Occasionally the muses gift me with a moment of levity, as I struggle with these topics, today's was creating a joke.

"An Irishman, an Englishman and a Scotsman walk out of a bar, and there wasn't a punch line."

[Ellsworth]

There is another Irish song, that after many listens and much research I had to reconsider.

It's called the Rocky Road to Dublin.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNHafuFbxLc

Because the lad didn't stop until Liverpool, yet the title implies that his destination was still Dublin and therefore Liverpool was just another step on the path.

It's been about a year or so since I mentioned this to an Irish-American man, and I have also told one random stranger.
Maybe someday I'll hear an opinion back from someone with more knowledge than I, on this very respectfully expressed interpretation.
And maybe someday I'll wish I didn't, for after my research Tuam became an unsolvable mystery of sadness and horror for me.

[Ellsworth]

I misspoke and will try to correct that with as much clarity that I can gain in a couple days.

I do not have a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, rather I have a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy.

The implication might be, as you move beyond the A/B, there is no Mastery.

Having never met Bruce, it was still partly his good influence that set me on that course.

[Ellsworth]

On the topic of Irish songs, and idea popped into my head yesterday.


There once was a band from Kilkenney,

Their sound was as Seattle sounding as many.

Their first album was released in 1994, as far as I know.

Right around the time that South Park started killing Kenney, in every episode.

Until the the very first season that Kenny did not reappear.

That was the same year that something else 'died' in Ireland.

It's a horrible rhyme I know. And might be something akin to fan fiction.

Personally, I enjoyed South Park in my youth, and hope that Deep Voodoo makes great progress, with haste.
For in learning how to create deepfakes, The creators of South Park might restore to the court system something that has been lost:
The ability to validate digital evidence.

The above might best be considered 'fan fiction.'

Disclosure: in my youth I did donate to Sinn Féin. It's a voluntary tax I still weigh and consider.
As a poem that rhymes throughout, the above sucks.
I have not given this much deep thought.

[Ellsworth]

There once were 3 cats from KilKenny.
They roared out Loudly, "Curb dog!"
If it had been plural,
Then surely it would have been in more than, one direction.

[Ellsworth]

On the same topics (fighting, cartoons and influence):

The history of cartoons on film in America, has been one of slowly receding racism.
There are many examples, but perhaps there is one that has yet to be addressed.


Warner Brothers took the name Elmer and added a British slang last name that rhymed with dud.
And then they had a rabbit call him Nimrod, again and again.
All for the 'entertainment' of children.

Nimrod: other than the biblical reference, at a pure guess, at one time in America it may have meant something like 'nimble rods from Kentucky.'

I have yet to figure out all the details of Robert E. Lee's usage of the word as an insult, and I likely never will.
I've already formed preliminary judgment, that it connects to Elmer, and that leaves me disliking the Racist Rabbit.

I could be wrong about some of the above, maybe someone sharper than I can unpack it.

When Greenday first came out I did not like their sound.
They have a decent song or two, but generally they still are not my kind of sound (which is a-ok).
But just recently I read an article where one of their member's explained why they picked Nimrod as an album name.
I thought that was pretty cool.

Disclaimer:
I'm now biased on this issue, I'm anti-Bugs Bunny.
What first led me to reconsider Bugs Bunny was learning about Francis E. Brownell.
I am replacing my Zippo with a Nimrod, which was one of the things I noticed along this path of discovery.
- Or I might get a Zippo engraved with Elmer Fudd. The story deserves a prop.

[Ellsworth]

Today it occurred to me that the .223 round might have been inspired by the '223 women' of WWI.

But, I don't know enough to have a real opinion about it.

I'm learning how long it takes Google to index this forum.

It's not one month. Maybe it will take 2 months?

I had genuinely expected 1 month or less, based on my past google searches for Ron's last post on this thread.
His appeared a lot quicker than mine.

[Ellsworth]

Since the Celts won the playoffs, I'll share what I hadn't planned to:

It was within the last two days when another possible interpretation of the poem I Am Stretched on Your Grave occurred to me.
The poem, might be from the perspective of Ireland's original religion.

It took listening to almost every version of the song on Youtube, and noticing that occasionally artists change a word or two.
Doing so usually changes the possible meaning of the line and/or verse.

The band Dead Can Dance, for instance, changes the line, "for I smell of the earth and am worn by the weather [/ whether?]."
In their version it becomes, "for I smell of the earth and am slain by the weather [/ whether?]."
If I was going to make a change it might be, "for I smell of the earth and am tumbled by the weather [/ whether?]."

Eventually, thinking about that line led to a question, "What is in Ireland, that is important, and might fit the description in the original wording?"

Perhaps stones. Giant stones, some vertical and half buried. Some horizontal.
As physical objects they smell of dirt, and are worn by weather.
As religious objects they have all sorts of potential meaning.
I plotted a few on google maps and quickly realized they are spread across Ireland, not just in the North or the South.

(edited to add, they are often called Standing Stones. I was trying to avoid the abbreviation S.S. and trying to avoid thinking of how Hitler adopted other culture's symbolism in a quest for power).

The hardest line imho, is "Thanks be to Jesus, we did what was right."
But, the nature of art, religion and influence could create this reading, "Thanks bee, to Jesus. We did what was right."
It is the kind of literary interpretation that stings.

I have studied the history/religion of the Druids a little bit over the years.
Generally, this interpretation can fit.

The worst possible interpretation of a line goes to "my apple tree my brightness." Because at one point during the Troubles, bombs were used to spread pain and 'knowledge.'
And that is a possible revisionist interpretation that can be used to radicalize.

I feel that I have reached my personal depth of possible experience with this poem and now set it aside. (edited to add, I just realized Claddagh rings were created around the same time as the poem was written. Implications for "hands held in mine?" Obviously I'll revisit the poem someday)

And maybe the poem/song is just about the grief experience of a man who lost his loved one. Conventional.

There are zero covert messages in anything I have posted on this thread.

I do not do Sudoku, rather I do mental exercises like what I did with this poem, to try and keep my brain gears working.
This time, I shared.

Congrats to the Celtics, go Boston!

Disclaimer: I've never watched a basketball game and hold zero team biases. (edited to add, we all know I watched the Globetrotters once as a kid, but I hardly remember!)

Edited to add: Here are additional ideas.
- If it's about two adult lovers, then the gender/sexual identity has been assumed as traditional. The poem could have been written by a gay male or a lesbian, about their significant other.
- It could be something akin to an 'audio short' version of Romeo and Juliet ('forever').
- It could be about a mother grieving for her daughter. The daughter may have passed from either sickness, starvation, warfare, domestic violence, or herbal abortion (blackthorn).
Remove assumptions of gender and sexual orientation and it seems like there are six possible (re)interpretations for the poem, or perhaps better expressed as 'layers of understanding.'

The phrase "stretched at your head" could have between three and twelve (or more) possible interpretations. The minimum groupings are physical, mental and geographic. Everything I've expressed about this poem may be a stretch, it's simply considering every possibility.

Edited to add:
With anonymous poems, especially ones with potential political implications, it seems reasonable that nationality/language of the author cannot be proven or assumed.
Regarding this poem, Irish, English, Scottish, Italian, Spanish and perhaps Latin seem most reasonable possibilities for language of composition.
What could the implications be on meaning, if it was crafted using a different language?
Or if it was crafted in Irish, by a fluent 'Irish as an additional language' speaker?
And to think in 'author' is a fallacy, because so often great written work is made by writers/collaboration.

The poem is recorded as having been authored before the Romantic era, yet a conventional reading of the poem perfectly expresses/represents it.
At the very least there's likely preservation and education bias at work.

[Ellsworth]

I do not know anyone on my mother's side of the family,
in any significant way.

I am not a part of their family business /businesses
I do not attend their important life events.

The last was a funeral, over 20 years ago.
Before that, a wedding, about 40 years ago.

I did not grow up wealthy or attend an ivy league school.
It could be said my mother did, but there would be a lot of qualifiers in the explanation.

My father spent his most formative young years living on a Native American Reservation.
My mother was born in a different country and spent her early years there.
Yet I cannot claim to be a second generation immigrant.

What does this have to do with a thread about Bruce Lee and martial arts?

Years ago I owned a vehicle, it's head gasket was failing.
It had been parked in front of a friend's shop awaiting repair, scrap or donation (it was an older, high mileage vehicle).

It had been there a long time, long enough to show up on google maps street view.
It was a major street pretty close to facilities owned by Tesla, Space X, Blue Orgin, Microsoft, Google.
Lots of experimental cars with self drive systems whiz around the area.

One morning I am awoken by texts and phone calls, my vehicle had been stolen over the course of the night.
So I was busy dealing with that issue for the first hour of my morning.
When I had time to relax a little I used my phone to look at the news.

One of my cousin's names was in the headlines.
Over the course of that very same night, his California privacy initiative had been 'stolen' by big tech.
A watered down compromise was reached with the State Legislature, "problem solved!"

I had zero awareness that he was involved in politics. He, and that side of the family, sure weren't part of my life thought process.

I've spent more than a few hours in the subsequent years contemplating the flaws in Occam's Razor.

Occam's Razor dictates that the theft was random. Spurred by the desire for a joyride. Or the desire to chop a vehicle for parts.
The flaws in Occam's Razor (dictate? imply? create the possibility that) there are many other possibilities.

I mostly pretend to be like Alfred E. Neuman regarding this issue and 'don't worry.'
Crap happens, crap doesn't happen, that's life and old age.

[Ellsworth]

What Bruce Lee lacked, in those early Seattle days, and in that multicultural group of friends, was a Native American.
The closest thing he had, was my Father.*

One of the things I admire about Bruce, he was an inherently multicultural expression at a time when the world needed it.

*I do not mean to imply that my father's experience was equivalent to that of a Native American resident.
I'd say that he thought deeply about the experience and had a lifetime of growing understanding/appreciation/respect for the People.
It is implied that finding a Native American at the UW in 1961 might have been difficult, much less one wanting to obsess over martial arts.

Edited to add:

I won't add a thousand words of not enough, but I'll add more than two.
Consider...
A Chinese guy and a Japanese guy in the early 1960's.
A black guy and a white guy, in the early 1960's
A latino in that mix.
They also broke economic barriers, some were doing ok, some were scraping by.
Arguably 7 nations: China (imperial), China CCCP, Britain, Japan, Mexico (respectful guess), America, and where Jesse Glover's ancestors came from.

It's very possible that I'm missing some things that should be added to the above list(s).
I'm not a Bruce Lee historian / expert. I simply think and I try to think simply.

[Ellsworth]

The one person, that I currently find most comparable to Bruce Lee:

Greta Thunberg.

Feel free to ponder the question with me: What are the similarities and differences between an opera singer and a professional dancer?

[Ellsworth]

I'll add one more, and I'll try to do it with one line.

'If you want to see the fight in 3 dimensions, then imagine it happening on Penn and Teller's Fool Us.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93gcf30R2hY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8GEGEqVECQ

One should not find disrespect in that, only more respect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0-QSNwc3lk
Edited to add: I was unaware that Brooke Burke was part of the show. I got confused and thought she took over as host (heck I still don't know).
But, since on the subject... Ordinarily a person can google a 'celebrity's name + IQ' and and get a result with a number.
I dub that the 'Ashton Kutcher effect.' I can't find an IQ estimate for Brooke Burke. I would guess it's 140 or above.

Clearly I am not the first to contemplate the physics of the 1" punch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpHYkNlsxPs

Addendum, zero disrespect intended for Steven Ho by posting that Conan link.
The height difference between him and Conan illustrate, in an exaggerated way, the principles of physics and biomechanics involved.
Hit the belt and Conan will hinge. But the problem is, no one can hit that dancing Coco!
The psychological aspects, you can think through for yourself.
And fwiw, I only locked onto my understanding within the last couple years.
The whole thing caught me by surprise and without a lot of lived experience I'd have missed it.

Would this post had been better if it was literally, just the sentence and nothing else except the first two links?
'If you want to see the fight in 3 dimensions, then imagine it happening on Penn and Teller's Fool Us.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93gcf30R2hY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8GEGEqVECQ

[Ellsworth]

Here's a thought that has been developing over the last two days:

I know nothing about this source (the poster or the forum). I found it yesterday while trying to verify that Leroy Garcia is Latino-American.

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/bruceleelivestributeforum/bruce-lee-s-seattle-students-t5143-s10.html

I'll paraphrase post #16 from that thread.
'In an article from the late 1980's, some guy said that folks thought Bruce was crazy for shooting pigeons in the middle of a city.'

I personally don't recall reading such an article, no surprise, so I'll take it at face value (the article exists, the paraphrase is faithful).

To me, having known some of the people involved, with my understanding of that window in time and a broader historical context, the paraphrased story became a reference and then it became a lesson.

The key: Passenger Pigeons.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-billion-to-zero-what-happened-to-the-passenger-pigeon/

By the end of the lesson a person should understand it contains elements that could be used as metaphors, by any number of factions.

[Ellsworth]

I once drove dang near from Portland to Seattle on I-5, at 35 mph.
Slow lane, hazards on.
Sunny and clear day, AC on, tunes on low.

On my trailer was a large Delta floor drill press.
I had not moved a lot of floor presses prior to that.
I knew the basics, and it was strapped down solid.

That whole trip, I went exactly as fast as I felt comfortable.
Every semi truck that passed me, surely appreciated the telegraph of my hazard lights.
As I approached Seattle, I think I heard a few yell "Don't leave Ballard again!"

The drive made me contemplate a concept:
'Balancing an upside down pendulum.'

Edited to add:
The ticket would have likely read "Impeding traffic."
I'd probably have to tell the judge, "I'd rather plead on impeding, versus vehicular manslaughter."
That's half a joke, but surely you get the point.

Edited to add:
The issue was the used trailer was newish to me.
I didn't have a lot of experience with torsion axles, they are bouncy.
Tossing on an extra 1000 lb of ballast before leaving the house would have solved my speed limit problem.

[Ellsworth]

Google: "general non-violence" "fight or flight"
Google: "general nonviolence" "fight or flight"

At a glance, there's no formal, modern system of none-violence.

Not one that addresses/includes/honors the current scientific understanding of human biological driven responses.
Not one that incorporates aspects of Animal Liberation Theology (or that seems to debate if aspects ought to be included).
Not one that tries to be highly compatible with modern mental health principles (takes into account, fits within the framework, uses as justification, et cetera).

I do not know if any of the above are necessary for the pursuit, but they could potentially contribute to an understanding.

[rckclmbr428]

The only thing violence ever solved was conflict

[Ellsworth]

Apparently rage is the easiest emotion for humans to react to and spread.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-emotion-goes-viral-fastest-180950182/

There might be some additional implications. ymmv.

[Ellsworth]

Chair rides as a kid.
Usually after an event like 4H, community potluck, et cetera.

One kid would sit in a chair, grip both sides of the seat and pull themselves down.
Another kid would hold the back of the chair from behind.
That second kid would act as both engine and counterweight and start spinning the kid in the chair.
At one point, let go and see the chair and rider slide away.

The would not work with folding chairs, equipped with rubber feet.
It would work with chairs that had smooth chrome/stainless(?) feet.

Part of the psychology behind the punch's demonstration is the power of the novel.
The new and exotic, it can create additional interest[engagement]compliance.
And Bruce certainly represented the novel to the U.S. martial arts community.

In regards to risk, it's easy to imagine how easily, anything about the action could not line up.
Facing more athletic stances, Bruce's ego might have ended up bruised.
I'd love to watch a video with a couple people that know how to move, explore the overall concept.

Edited to add:
There's lots of ways to increase the slide.
A freshly waxed floor might have helped and may have happened.

I doubt that clear PTFE powered was used.
I really doubt that grease, oil, or butter was used, or any other technique.

[Ellsworth]

Here's a question that I've slowly been forming/exploring over the last few years:

What are all the implications for the present/current time, when intoxicant A creates epigenetic changes to Homo sapien sapiens' DNA that are different than intoxicant B, in a world where for most of the last 5000 years approximately half the global population of Homo sapien sapiens have primarily used intoxicant A and the other half of the global population of Homo sapien sapiens have primarily used intoxicants A+B?

Where A is alcohol and B is marijuana.

Add another concept: during a food collapse caused by a little ice age, volcanic eruption cooling, standard crop failure, war / migration, or other reasons for food collapse -- weeds would be the last to go and the first to pop back up.

This is obviously a question in progress.

This is also a no-judgement question, the whole world is going to pot. [deadpan humor]

[Ellsworth]

I apologize for not realizing this sooner.

I have an odd frame of reference for the 1" punch.
'My dad could do with two fists what Bruce could do with one."

My dad used to do a 2 fist punch.
It could make a heavy bag touch or near touch a 9' ceiling.

One of the many things my dad could do that I never could.
There's no disrespect, in a possible explanation of the physics and stance, to the trained power and skill required.

[Ellsworth]

On Drudge today, a link said that Abraham Lincoln might be gay.
And that there's some historical documents which some claim make the case.
Apparently it's been a debate for decades.

I don't know a thing about that.
I've read near zero Abraham Lincoln related documents.

Ironically though, I reached the same conclusion through a different avenue.
That he was possibly gay because he seemed neuroatypical.
After that, it's statistics, using today's statistics.
(With an understanding that comparing similar cohorts from different eras may yield different statistics)

Today I realized there's also multiple controversies about Lincoln's hat.
The way some neuroatypicals play, I think I have nothing more to say about that.

[Ellsworth]

I wish Trump a speedy recovery and the same to David Dutch and James Copenhaver.
Condolences to the loved ones of the deceased victim, firefighter Corey Comperatore.

Congratulations and thanks to the Secret Service and the support personnel, for performance under pressure.
The desire to blame is everywhere, it is inherent in human affairs, and that is partly why it's so easily focusable.
And usable, as a wedge issue.

I know there's been a lot of unseen changes over the decades in the personal protection field.
While the vests are better, fundamentally it was still body over body, no helmets.

A podium, built in gun shot detector (microphone), pneumatic powered pop up bullet resistant material (3 sides, front, left and right).
The material could be clear or opaque.
All invisible until deployed.

Handheld bullet resistant shields, one stored on each side of the podium (aesthetically integrated into the podium), grab if needed.
Even something as small as 16"x24" provides some coverage.

The SawStop analogy.
The SawStop is an amazing safety device. It has already saved a lot of fingers.

But, it can't be seen. Everything is hidden under the hood, so to speak.
A podium with a pop-up protective feature. Seems similar to a SawStop, only in this case a 'sound / stop.'

May America forever choose the ballot box.
Politics works best within a framework of civility.

#family #thanks

I'll try to keep my future posts on this thread more directly related to Bruce Lee.

edited to add:

To show that I generally try to support both sides.



[Originally posted in the member's only political section on 06-14-2024]

I have thought about Jimmy Carter this year, more than other years.
The result could be called idk, a poem or a prayer.


I bid/bide Jimmy Carter,
the power to rhyme and time,
the energy of his life,
until he rejoins his wife.

And as I have watched his dwindling physical appearances, I contemplate,
Does he resemble a western expression of the Eastern tradition of Sokushinbutsu?

As I have grown older, I appreciate President Carter more.

I'll give the next President, regardless of party, as much thought.



(Originally posted in the member's only political section on 7/15/2024)

I just realized that the only brand new vehicle my father purchased, while I was alive was in 1975 (possibly the only new vehicle, idk 4 sure).

And that it was very likely politically motivated.



(originally posted in the member's only political section on 9/18/2024)

May there not be a third attempt.
May the powers that influences voters be tempered.
May the emotions that influence voters remain in check.
May politics be (and remain) rational and verbal.

(Nothing above is intended to reference the month of May).

[Ellsworth]

The average Roman soldier weighed 145 lb.
Bruce Lee weighed 135 lb.

I don't think Bruce did steroids like modern fighters tend to do.
And his natural food approach minimized exposure via contaminated supplements.

Compared to many/most professional modern fighters/athletes, that's simply different.

[Ellsworth]

'Bruce Lee was an inherently youthful expression.'

But I don't know all the implications to that, because I myself only now, wrestle with what it means to age.

[Ellsworth]

My father said he started teaching in 1965.
I have no proof of that, but it's the date we've used for the Association's beginning.

Yesterday I looked at all the historical events for that year (U.S. centered).
I'm sure I missed more than a few.
What I found was fascinating to reflect upon.
It's a short glance at history, the value of which is interpretative.

[Ellsworth]

I recently learned that the Irish word for Man literally means "fear."

It took me a week of casual research to discover that, in antiquity,
On that small island,
The word for man was, gender neutral.

I could be wrong in that understanding.
And language is truly not my forte.

I used to say that in a gender war,
The children are the losers.

Now I tend to express it like this:

In a gender war, we are all the losers (https://community.loghomebuilders.org/entry.php?301-AI-Pendants-AI-Copyright-Gibberlink-Ithkull).

That's how misdirection and emotional triggers work (https://community.loghomebuilders.org/entry.php?302-Red-pill-Blue-pill-Bull-crap-social-cultural-programing-attack).

[Ellsworth]

What are the all the differences and similarities between a physical holocaust and a digital winnowing?

Rephased in perhaps a shorter, more powerful manner:

'How might you compare a physical holocaust to a digital winnowing?'

Rephrased for maximum psychological effect:

'How might I compare a physical holocaust to a digital winnowing?'

The power increase comes from you, in the form of 'I.'

[Ellsworth]

The new posts on this thread have not been indexed by google yet in almost 3 months.

Whereas this thread was indexed by google in just 1 month:
https://community.loghomebuilders.org/showthread.php?15456-55-Gallon-steel-drums-new-versus-old

Perhaps new threads and new posts carry different priority weight for google bots/spiders?

[Ellsworth]

We had one year to act, between 1984* and 1986**.

We had one year to react, between the book and the act.

And now, after almost 40 years, maybe we'll get the 180, sooner rather than later.

And Perhaps, don't let AI corrupt/alter/edit/'improve'/'deprove'/'evolve' the accumulated data.


*Book 1984. **Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986.

[This is as close to independently arrived thought as is possible. I know others have already arrived there, and have surely expressed it similarly to how I have done in the words above. I have not seen, or sought, the areas of the web where such debates have taken place and I have no plans to. The 'light' web is dark enough for me.]

[Ellsworth]

American Bookends

From the birth of the Silent Generation,
To the end of the Silent Revolution,
There were 100 years of loud change.

[Ellsworth]

Over the last two days I explored a thought.
That the Electronics Privacy Act of 1986 was passed under the rule of Moore's Law.
Considering all the implications of that, alone, is what I do.

Just like how I discovered this Greatest American Issue, alone.
It makes me value this knowledge Moore's Law even more, because I had to discover it. And genuinely, it's possible that no one who was in my 'orbit' knew.
Of course it's possible that, no one knew, despite the fact they were near retirement age, after working multiple stints at places like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, et cetera.
These very nice folks were all solid mi-level managers, trainers, IT security workers, IT security software commercial sales, et cetera.
AKA, pros-in the know (would typically be the assumption description).
It's also possible that it was just a choice, to not mention it, while emailing me member lists with personal data on it and build site addresses.
(edited to add, I suppose it's possible everyone assumed I knew. I suppose it's possible that tech workers don't like discussing that sensitive topic)

I have used Google's Ngram viewer very little.
I've found it can be a quick way to see broad patterns and implications.
YMMV.

Moore's Law, AI and the Electronic Privacy Act of 1986
This may be the pinnacle or end of my intellectual quest.

In the old day's people would say "Brother's and Sister's in Christ," or something like "My fellow Americans."
I have no idea what to say, so I'll try a simple: I care, enjoy your day.

Edited to add:
The analogy I've come up with for this issue:

Imagine Mark Zuckerberg started/owned Google/Alphabet.
Then Mark Zuckerberg wanted to build an Island retreat on Hawaii.
And Mark Zuckerberg has access to all email data, that had been left on google servers for more than 180 days, since the start.
And... attachments. Land contracts, wills, family disputes, affairs, other interested parties, et cetera.

Then add the use of non-commercially available AI (i.e. in-house Google/Alphabet AI).
How might that impact the power landscape on a... small island.

This is a blunt expression.

Ordinarily I believe it is standard for authors to place such concepts within works of fiction, rather than plain language + non-fiction.

[I have never done Linked in. It's never mattered. So right now, this is the best I can offer: Bachelor of the Arts, Philosophy, Cum Laude, from Seattle University (a Jesuit institution). Thirty + years as entrepreneur / small business owner.]

[Ellsworth]

Ps, The LHBA members who did live in the Seattle area, and worked at places like Microsoft, Google and Facebook (at or near retirement, manager / trainer level) were quick to discuss all sorts of kiddie type conspiracy theories. Just like the crap you find on Drudge, Reddit and Alex Jones. The modern Art Bell stuff.

Now I try to de-conspiracy theory the internet (LoL). For instance I converted Pizza Gate to a real issue:

Person A, Q) You've eaten pizza a lot over your lifetime, correct?
Person B, A) Yes, I have.

Person A, Q) Out of all those times that you've eaten pizza, how many specific instances do you remember?
Person B, A) Well, Umm, a couple. ?

It's why Elon Musk's brain chip's sales pitch will be so enticing: perfect recall.
For good or bad, that level of self knowledge/awareness will be enticing.
Fair (or perhaps equal) distribution of the resource and the two way nature of a link, those might be sticking points in the acceptance process.

In regards to the North/South pole shift, I'm no scientist but I have watched a few videos on how a spinning object flips in space.
And learned a bit about the newly discovered, fairly shallow/thin liquid layers within the earth, an inner core that spins counter clockwise to the outer core -- which all mean that in theory the N/S pole flip-flip should be slightly smoother than expected.
Neat stuff, the science. I have no real insights other than at times, the poles switch.

But I digress. Moore's law. 1986. That's no conspiracy theory. That's Act and Ignorance + storage expansion = intro surveillance state

[Ellsworth]

I believe that I can now refocus upon log homes.
And so I shall try.
Certainly not because I want to be some sort of Industry Leader.

There is a need for affordable homes, in America and the world.
There's a need to reduce the financial damage wrought by poorly designed/built log home systems.
There's a need for low cost secondary homes in the wilderness built with mostly site sourced materials.
I may have some small, practiced ability at helping to meet those needs.
I have no hubris, I know others have greater ability and resources.
The more, the merrier.

[Ellsworth]

A few after thoughts and disclaimers.

1) I'm not a lawyer, I'm hardly a talented amateur.

2) It was this post:

My father said he started teaching in 1965.
I have no proof of that, but it's the date we've used for the Association's beginning.

Yesterday I looked at all the historical events for that year (U.S. centered).
I'm sure I missed more than a few.
What I found was fascinating to reflect upon.
It's a short glance at history, the value of which is interpretative.

That helped me start to look at, and understand, the issue with Moore's law.
1965.

So the caveat is: I am learning / exploring this topic in real time as I post. I am surely not articulating all the nuances of the issue as well as they deserve.
It deserves a good college thesis level paper. It deserves a new law.

3) I am starting to explore some Terms of Service for email providers, like Google. It's an interesting read.

4) I move between a few topics that interest me. A new one I acquired recently is the river Dee, it's already so complicated that it's above my head. But I'll keep swimming.

5) Genuinely, no resentments towards members over this issue, or toward Steve for emailing me the entire forum approx last year, after 20 years of never telling me about email security at the Server Level.
Life happens and one moves on, hopefully a wiser and more understanding person.

6) After Moore's law was well established, it became a predictable path to offer incentive sign ups / enrollment periods, product launches and/or push memory development hard to keep pace with permanent data storage (regarding email and other storage intensive services). That might be one secret to the Big Tech takeover, dates and data should reveal that.

7) I am always open to being wrong about something, in whole or in part.

8) Some of this exploration is based upon the framework of the Domestic Analogy. Because at core that concept involved the proposal that human behavior is predictable scalable within operating spheres of similar culture, and scalable for any standard cross cultural commonalities (imho, ymmv, it's a working concept overall, pun intended)

[Ellsworth]

Distempered Individualism

I often wonder,
If Ayn Rand and Bruce Lee were a,
Deliberate punch and kick from the East to the West.

Were they living examples of excess,
In classical 'rugged individualism,'
Whose inevitable success pushed culture toward the failure of extremes?

Or were they both simply natural occurrences,
Pushing us all to be our best,
By the hard route of individual success?

Tempered Individualism

Edited to add on 3/7/25

Line: Today I noticed that line "Deliberate punch and kick to the West" was not what I originally posted.
It should read, "Deliberate punch and kick from the East to the West." As originally written.
The line has been fixed.

[Ellsworth]

Perhaps the definition of WWIII shouldn't depend upon the actual use of nuclear weapons.

Rather it is a war that involves (enough) specific countries where the risk is of nuclear weapons being used is both high and realistic.

We just might get through WWIII without a single nuclear bomb going off (or bio weapon of similar scope being used).

Edited to add:

Once the excitement of war with new toys (I.E. drones, AI and biological viruses) has lost its shine.
Once the major players have learned all they possibly can (at this stage)...
Then imho it'll be time to worry about war's next stage: nuclear. EMP and/or direct hits.

But I do not worry much about that doomsday clock (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InFbBlpDTfQ).

It's "midnight in a perfect world." (https://vimeo.com/50138269?share=copy)

[Ellsworth]

Thread still not indexed by google.
Moved to picnic table.

I contemplate my posts on this thread and my past experiences.

I do recall Maria gave me a book on Edward Snowden, I should have read it.

[Ellsworth]

I am thinking about this thread.
Archiving it, editing it, leaving it in the member's area, moving it back to the public area.

I have definitely switched to posting on the LHBA blog feature.
I'll trend that way.

[Ellsworth]

Thread moved back to the public side, from the member's only side, on 3/7/2025.
I made no edits to any of the previous posts, nothing added, nothing deleted.

Two incidents have caused me reason to think this forum software is not secure.
I mean it is, not secure by definition, the latest, stable, supported version is 6.0.

But specifically I mean #people being people.

I don't typically make egregiously mistakes like:
https://community.loghomebuilders.org/entry.php?288-Trump-s-Inauguration

I would not make a mistake on an expression of self-definition: I am NON-partisan (rather than partisan).
By some outlandish possibility that I did, it would be exceedingly hard to convince me of that, in this specific case.

There's no absolute proof that what I posted in the linked blog entry was continuously wrong, I can't envision anything convincing me that it was my error.
Well, a few narrow set of circumstances might, but each path would be difficult and mostly like leave doubt at the end.

The only impossibility is a logical contradiction, so I must admit that there is a 0.75% chance it was my mistake.
But, patterns make me think that percentage is perhaps a bit large.
_________________________

I have a simple outlook.

It is your actions that define you, not me.
It is my actions that define me, not you.

The importance of those distinctions matter incredibly.

I stand behind what I write.
But since I publish on the internet, I cannot stand behind what you might read.
__________________________


I did not begin to understand the Red Sea, until I started to learn about the River Dee.
It was the River Dee that helped me understand the Red Sea.
Beginning to understand the River Dee, led me to have a deeper understanding about the Red Sea.



There's a few missing phrases / posts from this forum.
_______________________________

Version 4.25, left just as my former co-owner wanted it to be left (LHBA's former webmaster, up until 2025).

I move at a pace to maximize my own learning.
Like politics and family, it's the people who suffer.

I still wish my former co-owner well.
It's healthier than any other position.
And I can imagine the trials and tribulations of his early life, the forces that formed him.

Last night I learned the date that the the forums vulnerability started -- 2017.

It has been vulnerable since 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBulletin
When the company announced that version 4 was at "end of life."

So, 8 years +- a few months.

And it seems that LHBA's former webmaster held the vBulliten license in his personal capacity, making it outside the LHBA.
At least, there's a legal argument to make -- afaik the only license transfer made since the forum launched was in 2025, and there should have been two before that.

That's individual personal liability. It's called 'going naked' no liability protection.
For about 7 years, maybe much longer, 10 or more.
That's nuts, for the sake of convenience! (I'll assume)

All it takes to change the license is to ask the company nicely, then pay a small fee. Otherwise in the case of LHBA I believe that legally ownership would default to the software licensee account holder, after a company closes and a new one forms (the software company does not record company data for purchasers / customers, it only takes personal names.

So the details matter, it would take a license transfer with proof of new corporate payment to move ownership of the forum, and to continue liability protection via using a corporate veil. I move at a pace to maximize my own learning.

[Ellsworth]

The only thing violence ever solved was conflict

There's a topic I don't study, the 100 years war.*
There's lot of reasons why.

I know you probably just kicked out a soundbite, and I'm not knocking you Ronnie.
I also know violence is a crude action that offers no real solutions, ask the Hatfields, ask the McCoys.
First and foremost, it's a lot easier to start violence / conflict than it is to stop it.
Once it's rolling, once it becomes a habit, then there's a ton of inertia behind it.

And when it comes to violence, computer hacking is one of its forms.
Because violence from one to another ought be defined as more than a punch or a kick.

*There is one aspect of the 100 years war that I might study in the future.
The relationship between it and the formation of modern Psychology.
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edited to add,

I checked this post 20 minutes after making it.

The line above read "I know you probably just kicked out a soundbite, and I'm now knocking you Ronnie."
I sure don't think I made that typo, but in reality it's just the sort of language mistake I make and have to correct later (on the same day I make the post).
I don't think that was a hack attack, but damn if it was, it would have been an effective one.
Line has been corrected to read how I intended, "I know you probably just kicked out a soundbite, and I'm not knocking you Ronnie."
(bold added to emphasize the situation)

This is an example of why I review each post meticulously the day I make them. I would not make a mistake on an expression of self-definition: NON-partisan.

[Ellsworth]

Was my father a killer?
Was my father a rapist?
Was my father a pedophile?
Was my father a racist?
Was my father a criminal?
Was my father an anti government protester?
Was my father a patriot?

He excelled at great customer service.
He excelled at helping people find their path and change their life.
He was often one of the smartest guys in the room.
He cared deeply about people.
He was very entertaining.
He was an amazing 'active listener.'
He helped thousands gain freedom from 30 years of debt slavery, aka a 30 year mortgage (Mortgage (https://www.businessinsider.com/mortgage-means-death-pledge-2016-3?op=1)means, death pledge).

Topics I'll explore in the future.
#life is complicated, that's for sure.

Be careful about the openings that people leave you.
To step in, or to step away, it's often hard to pick correctly.

On one side of the family are the Freemasons, an Indian Reservation, DKE and Gung Fu, on the other side is Ivy league, a tropical island, eugenics and Skull and Bones*.
And by marriage I have a quick line of connection to the New York Yankees and a prison guard of the Manson Family.

Eventually I'll start talking about log homes.
That will be just as serious, and less mysterious.

*I'm 98.6% sure, or maybe 97.9% sure, about Skull and Bones. I'm still jogging my memory and doing research.

[Ellsworth]

It'll be nearly as complicated to speak about my mother.
My FOO siblings and I grew up feeling dirt poor, with worn plywood floors.
2nd hand everything, hand me downs, and cutting ground beef with about 50% some ground plant (I forget the name) -- half cow / half vegan burger!
She's the main reason all her children graduated from college.

Two of the four with graduate degrees -- Law and MBA.

Only one tried to pay her back financially.
The motive was partly just so that it could be said, 'the degree was self-funded.' (or a similar expression)

On my father's side, we're related to Oliver Ellsworth.
On my mother's side, we're related to John Jay.

That and $10 buys a cup of dessert at Starbucks, but frankly it can also push a person to try damn hard.
Because a person should seek to understand their ancestors.
And a person should seek to honor and replicate the good attributes / characteristics of their ancestors.
Such relationships can push a person to seek their own greatness, and it puts a person at risk of being used by others... but frankly those are risks every person faces in life, regardless of their specific ancestors.
(Seeking greatness is itself a great risk, and being used by others is a common risk to all within society)

She rejected the offer of repayment.
For she did not want that child to be able to say that, or anything even close to that.
She assumed he'd claim to be a 'self-made man,' (afaik, iirc, that was the primary objection).
But at root was seeking control of expression. For no one knows how it would end up being explained.
As an adult looking back, it seems clear she wanted credit, and so I give her credit and my thanks for valuing education so highly.

Make it harder to build a future, make it harder to build an individual name (and/or a collective name), make it harder to succeed.
Make it harder to create a novel narrative, which might bring positive public recognition.
That's an easy path to individual failure, and systemic family failure.

Both parents had a hand in that.
My Family of origin (FOO).
And in some ways, both parents helped in their children's successes, few and hard won successes -- may there be more (for my family and for yours!).

It's also hard to talk about a man that had three wives and 6 children.
Four children from wife one,
and one child each from wife two and wife three.
IMHO a plan by design, for it could be said that a union with no child is the fragilest... the easiest to break. I'm confident that is how my father would have seen it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/are-childfree-couples-doo_b_913051
https://www.sciencenordic.com/childbirth-denmark-divorce/childless-couples-have-more-divorces/1396768
https://lauracarroll.com/childfree-and-divorce/
https://www.mollybkenny.com/blog/by-the-numbers-childless-couples-are-more-likely-to-divorce.cfm
There are points and counter points, but the stark numbers are undeniable: no children = higher divorce rate.

Skip's last two children could be described as half American and half Filipino, but I don't call them half brothers.
One is an Engineer, the other is an artist that speaks six languages (maybe seven by now).
They are both amazing young men. Real brothers from other mothers.

#Complicated topics

[Ellsworth]

Aki Park, someone I befriended in high school.
I may be misspelling his first name, and I might have it right.

We knew each other for around 6 months or so, and then I never saw him again.
Not on purpose, iirc I changed school, he changed schools, we lived some distance away.

He was a giant Korean guy. About 5' 11" + -
He was punk rock, leather jacket and all.

He had spent most of his childhood growing up in Japan.

From him I learned enough to share 2nd hand, about his 1st hand experience with Asian xenophobia.

Damn, that Korean kid had it rough in Japan.

[Ellsworth]

Regarding Bruce Lee's one-inch punch.

Most people default to level of training. AKA, a person performs exactly how they train -- that is one of the goals of training.

It is fundamentally different for a fighter who has only trained in fighting, to try the one inch punch cold (no significant forethought, little or no action specific training) versus a person who has trained specifically for that upside down pendulum swinging punch -- that ends with a butt in a chair sliding backwards, chrome feet on slick concrete. Top heavy falls fast.

A big difference might be in the total ability to commit to the motion, Bruce would have a trained response of 'zero need to immediately foot-work, bounce-back from the target after throwing the punch.' All a boxer's training, all a fighter's training, would leave someone wanting to have a slightly different point of balance at the moment of furthermost arm extension, compared to a person who has trained at that specific one inch punch.
Or they are essentially trying something 'for the first time' and that makes everything more difficult.

And if a punch hits and slides just slightly to the side, well folks, that is a % of deflected energy. For full force to be transferred, especially for the effect of rocking a body straight back, there can be no horizontal or vertical movement of the knuckles when the fist strikes the chest. Throw the punch just a little wild, going for moar power, and it's almost a guarantee that when it lands it will slide L or R on the body.

Those small details matter so greatly. Continuous, linear direction of force, is the only way it works.

And the one inch punch is designed to act like a punsh (a punch / push afaik), or transitioned from one to the other during the throw -- the punch for the body might be different than the one that breaks boards.

There might be something specifically special / uniqe about the shoulder movement too, that special ball joint of many muscles and tendons, I'll keep trying to job my memory. Watching the videos on Youtube and Vimeo help.

I still think that it would be interesting to see a trained guy with the right kind of OCD tackle that punch in this era.
One who is able to truly articulate his training / method / physics and anatomy / physiology of the movement.
Neural conditioning alone counts for a ton of power, mind body connection.

The main takeaway from this post: goals, forethought, details, and training. Hell if I can pick which two matters most, I just know that getting it half right leads to failure.

[Peppered in this thread are a few earlier posts about Bruce's one in punch, and there will likely be more after this post. It was certainly an impressive display.]

Edited to add:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system
^^ I suspect Bruce used elements of the hittee's autonomic nervous system response against them -- if the punch was done right. He used it consciously or subconsciously, learned it from books or experience. I shall guess he learned from experience, for the letter published by the UW illustrates that he was an not a great academic (I simply state the obvious). Dedicated training, teaching others, being a working actor and being a parent all leave a lot less time for reading. But after decades of experience fighting, and learning many styles, I imagine he excelled at noticing everything about body movement.

Reflexive response, if the punch is done wrong then the hittee responds differently. If the punch was slightly off center, or the fist slides slightly L or R, then the hitee's body would instinctively twist and step backwards with the leg that is on the same side as the punch slide towards. The punch would help in that automatic nervous system response.

They key is to make the heels act like a genuine hinge point, zero opportunity for one leg or the other to reflexively step back.

The punch's success first starts by convincing someone to stand at what is essentially parade rest, rather than a fighter's stance. Then it's about the exact location where the punch lands, squaring up the fist to chest, and zero sliding of fist L or R during the punch. If the hitte is hit squarely, then the hittee can't step left or right because the brain and body is not wired like that. Instead they fall like a tree cut right, straight down in direction of the weight's lean.

Said another way, the punch done wrong activates the reptilian brain in the guy being hit. The punch done right forces the body of the guy being hit to adhere to the laws of physics in such a way that they fall straight back (hinge, fulcrum, pendulum, timber).

It's not a fighter bring hit. It's just a heavy bag being hit, one with a nervous system to take into account.

Nothing above is intended to belittle the action. Bruce put his reputation on the line in front of a crowd. He controlled all the variables he could to guarantee success -- first and foremost was dedication to practice.

#FunPuzzles

Edited to add:

It was not a fighter's punch. Viewed through that lens one can approach understanding.


The person throwing the punch was a fighter. The punch itself was not one a person would use in a fight (a punch could be thrown that looked similar, it would be a different punch that landed).
The one inch punch that rocked a man straight back, causing him to fall straight like a tree cut by a well trained logger, was likely different than the one inch punch that broke straight grained lumber -- different targets, different goals.

That nuance leads to some cognitive dissonance and observer bias -- because the punches look the same.

*If the punch started the hitee's body twisting, then the body's instincts would kick in and a leg would step back. An action more pronounced in a trained body (trained in fighting, football, et cetera). If the punch was truly dead-on, then the body instantly experienced confusion. Instinct thrives the instant it has felt a direction of motion. We are a bipedal species, we spend far more time moving one leg then the other. Moments when we have to move both together are more rare (jumping), so we have deep training / experience / biology that effects us.

I have read parts of my father's book about his experience with Bruce Lee. In fact I paid for the rights -- I own it. I just never received a full copy. What I miss more than that, are some old VHS tapes of my Gram sharing her knowledge/experience of family history. (https://community.loghomebuilders.org/entry.php?293-Trick-pool) Although I'd sure accept gladly that book about Bruce Lee, to edit and publish for posterity more than prosperity, of those two motives one would loom larger. Perhaps someday it will end up in my possession.

This is a bit of a rough post, and I'm not going to polish it. They are my thoughts over approximately an hour, after decades of reflection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfKz9G3nOqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8GEGEqVECQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMMS0Yx0Sa0