1955: back in the day I loved all kinds of athletic endeavors
Squaw Valley-Spring 1956 Snow no good for skiing, so mountain climbing instead.
ROCK N' ROLL!
First flying job: Wardman Flying Service, Quincy, CA. Fire Patrol 1960
Flying for Interior Airways, Fairbanks, AK in 1965
Chico Judo Club 1971 (AJJF) 1968-1972. I was an Air Tanker Co-pilot flying firebombers such as the B-17 and C-119, and attending Chico State in the off seasons. I had no idea that I was learning Jujitsu from martial art legends!
Prof Bud Estes, head of dojo and Judan of the AJJF.
Prof Lamar Fisher promoted me through Sankyu (3rd Degree Brown Belt) in 1972. He was later to become Judan of the AJJF.
Night spraying too. San Joaquin Valley
Fire bombing in a B-17 for Aero Union Corporation
Judy and I are in the flying business at Gansner Field in Quincy, CA as of June, 1978.
AJJF Prof (7th Dan) TJ. I flew regularly from Quincy to Chico to give flight lessons in return for private Jujitsu lessons.
Feather River Kodenkan. Sensei Burkhard Bohm. AJJF until 2002, then Bushidokan Federation. I was there from 9/1998-4/2007
Bushidokan Martial Arts Temple, Sparks, NV
Ohana, 2001, Waikiki, Hawaii. Sponsored by the American Jujitsu Institute. I enjoyed a beer with Imi Okazaki.
Training for the Shodan test with Tedd Hecklin
Dojo Black Belt. Promoted by Sensei Burkhard Bohm, Feather River Kodenkan
Johnny and Sensei Julio Urlich Racz playing around on a beach at Salinas, west of Guyalquil, Ecuador.
Certificate of participation in the 2005 International Jujitsu Seminar.
Johnny and Dan Zan Ryu Zenyo BuJitsu founder Herb LaGue at Sensei John Shiply's Koshinkan dojo in Fallon, NV
Feather River Kodenkan Sensei, Burkhard Bohm at the Koshinkan.
2006
Giving free Jujitsu lessons in Marvin Morgin's hangar
Some of my 1997 extremely motivated students of self-defense.
The new dojo was born the hard way! Winter 2008-09