I live in
Orange County, California, and edit under my real name. For Wikipedia, I bring two areas of special interest: motion pictures and the martial arts.
Here are links to the
STAR System website, to
short bios for STAR co-founder John Corcoran and myself, to John’s abridged
list of credits and my own
list of credits. John Corcoran’s published reference books and my published magazine features are frequently cited on Wikipedia’s martial arts-related entries.
I was personally prodded into becoming a Wikipedian by several of kickboxing and mixed martial arts’ early pioneers – including retired world champions
Joe Lewis (martial artist),
Don "The Dragon" Wilson, and
Maurice Smith – all of whom have separately become alarmed by misinformation circulating the Internet about their sport.
My time is both limited and sporadic, so I am focused on unraveling errors of fact, errors of interpretive misunderstandings, and errors of
original research about the early history of the professional martial arts movement and about motion pictures. I also hope to improve ring record information as well as add occasional entries about persons and matters of historic significance to the sport and to film.
I live in
Orange County, California, and edit under my real name. For Wikipedia, I bring two areas of special interest: motion pictures and the martial arts.
Here are links to the
STAR System website, to
short bios for STAR co-founder John Corcoran and myself, to John’s abridged
list of credits and my own
list of credits. John Corcoran’s published reference books and my published magazine features are frequently cited on Wikipedia’s martial arts-related entries.
I was personally prodded into becoming a Wikipedian by several of kickboxing and mixed martial arts’ early pioneers – including retired world champions
Joe Lewis (martial artist),
Don "The Dragon" Wilson, and
Maurice Smith – all of whom have separately become alarmed by misinformation circulating the Internet about their sport.
My time is both limited and sporadic, so I am focused on unraveling errors of fact, errors of interpretive misunderstandings, and errors of
original research about the early history of the professional martial arts movement and about motion pictures. I also hope to improve ring record information as well as add occasional entries about persons and matters of historic significance to the sport and to film.