MY STORY
GM José Torres by SM Guy E. Larke
Grandmaster Jose Torres Striving to Have it all While Still Maintaining Integrity By Sr Master Guy Edward Larke During my 22 years in Korea and working with various associations, I met an innumerable amount of foreign martial artists. One of them, contacted me in 2012. He was a very high-energy school owner from New Jersey whose mind worked faster than I could blink. We met face-to-face at the 1st Forum for the World Tang Soo Do General Federation in Seoul. It was a small, but very powerful and influential group of Tang Soo Do practitioners from around the globe. His youth and passion were overshadowed by a lifetime of experience accumulated in a short number of years. On two or three occasions we went for a stroll to talk about everything and anything in the martial arts world. Ten years later we have worked together on so many projects it is inconceivable. Almost every new opportunity that one came across, the other was dragged along for the ride. It’s the way martial arts brotherhood is supposed to be, but sadly seldom is. My dong sang (Korean for younger friend like a brother) started his amazing life in the late 70’s in a happy,
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