| There are a bunch of less than honorable stories in the | | | | the English language department, spent his days writing |
| martial arts. There is one I heard about Kenpo Karate | | | | the book and teaching Ed and some of his students |
| and Ed Parker is one of the worst I have ever heard | | | | his art. Jimmy looked at a rough translation of the book |
| however. Perhaps, if anybody knows the truth or | | | | that Ed was planning on submitting to a publisher, and |
| falsity of this tale, they could inform me. | | | | he couldn’t find his own name mentioned at all. |
| Ed Parker is credited with teaching many stars, | | | | Even though he was partners with Ed Parker, Jimmy |
| including Elvis, putting on the biggest tournament in the | | | | was doing all the work, so he was surprised at this |
| world for years, the Internationals, being the founder of | | | | fact. |
| modern Kenpo, and all manner of other deeds. He has | | | | He is supposed to have asked, why his name was not |
| had many students, and his abilities are well known. In | | | | on the book. Ed Parker asked if they could take a |
| the beginning; however, when he first started teaching, | | | | drive, he had an errand to run, but he would explain on |
| he was only a brown belt. | | | | the way. Ed Parker drove Jimmy into Hollywood, but |
| Shotokan karate was the art he was teaching in those | | | | didn’t say anything about the book. Ed Parker let |
| early days, and this is illustrated in one of his earliest | | | | Jimmy out of the car on Hollywood Boulevard and |
| books. Apparently he ran out of material to teach his | | | | drove away. |
| students, and his students wanted more, so he | | | | Jimmy then stood on the street corner with only the |
| returned to Hawaii and asked his instructor to teach | | | | clothes on his back and a single quarter to his name. |
| him more. Unfortunately his instructor refused to do so. | | | | With that last twent-five cents he went to a pay |
| Ed Parker was teaching without permission and his | | | | phone and called one of the students he had been |
| instructor took exception. | | | | teaching. In broken English, terribly confused, he told |
| Ed Parker then ran into a fellow named Jimmy Wu, | | | | the student that he didn’t know where he was, but |
| who had mastered gung fu, but who couldn’t | | | | Ed Parker had driven off and left him. |
| speak but a smidgeon of English. Ed Parker took | | | | He had been writing and teaching, and creating a |
| Jimmy home and put him up while Jimmy created | | | | whole system for Ed Parker, and he had been |
| the actual art of Kenpo. Ed Parker suddenly had all | | | | betrayed by him. The question I have is, is there any |
| sorts of stuff to teach his students. | | | | truth in this story? If anybody has the true story on it, I |
| During this time, Ed Parker asked Jimmy to co-author | | | | sure would like to know. |
| a book on Kenpo, and Jimmy, while still being lacking in | | | | |