"I'm pretty opinionated."
Highlights:
Chuck Norris = good, Bill's equal (surprise)
Elvis = good, for an amateur
Steven Seagall = "very arrogant" "has never had to prove himself" "full of shit" "nothing against him personally"
Daniel Laruso = "very dangerous. king to my kong"
ttt for Sam Pai Kenpo.
I had a chance to train with Bill, I was teaching him some Law Enforcement stuff. In between I was asking questuions like crazy. First of all he is a cool cat, but the most important thing is not to fuck around playfighting with him.
He was there to teach a straight side kick, and I will tell you... forget about his age, he still easily does the splits, he is still very fast and will cut you in half with his side kick.
Mongo, listen to that interview. He says he doesn't spar at seminars anymore because a few people have tried to sue him.
this was no sparring session my friend, he kicked me and I bent over, then he helped me up lol.
Jimmy, Harrison interview in this thread:
http://mma.tv/TUF/index.cfm?ac=ListMessages&PID=1&TID=728336&FID=1&pc=30
Same site as this one, KarateKast.com. GREAT interview, the Harrison one, I think the episode is 12/7 or 12/14.
Mongo,
My TKD school (stop laughing, I was in high school) had him out for a seminar in the late 80's. VERY COOL...I can't say enough good things about the guy. I'm sure he had heard every one of our quesions a thousand times, but answered them with humor and style. You have to remember, TMA was at an all-time high of craptacular ideas, so he had to field crazy things like, "How do you channel your chi when you fight?" and various Bruce Lee questions with 15 sub-parts.
But yeah, when it came to sparring, he tooled all of the mullet-wearing black belts. With me, though, he was pretty cool. I kept thinking that he couldn't withstand some of the "indefensible strikes" we had learned. I'm glad he was nice about it and make a complete mockery of me.
Word up, Jim. Not only is he tough, knowledgable and funny, he is great to lsten to, got a lot of hillbilly humor.
as we worked on the ground he had some interesting idea, he didn't roll, but was able to say try this try that. later we had Judo Gene in, he said Bill is the real deal, at any range.