Fudo Myoo, the "Patron Saint" of Many Japanese swordsmen. Some History and Stories from the “Warrior Saints” of the Martial Ways Looking back on my life, I often think of my first loves as a child. Without a doubt, the first thing that I fell in love with was cinema. In the ‘70s, my dad worked as a film critic for a local newspaper, so he saw everything that came out at the theaters—not as many movies were released back then—and often took me along with him if he thought it was something I would enjoy, sometimes for early screenings before the film was actually released. I have the fondest memories of the drive-in movie theater only a block away from our house in the Ozark mountains of Farmington, Arkansas. I can recall seeing Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars in 1977 there as if it was yesterday, along with every single Roger Moore led James Bond film to hit the screen. It may be hated by critics, but Moonraker...
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, currently titled "The Book of Old-School Bodybuilding Methods." (It's my tentative title, so it could change.) This is the chapter on Pat Casey. It's a revision of a much earlier article that I posted in 2017. I am posting this excerpt for a couple of reasons. One, obviously, is to drum up interest in my new book. The second is to demonstrate how different this one is from the earlier article. Although most of the chapters in my book are revisions of articles I have already written for the blog, I have added a good bit to each one, and revised them so that they are, I believe, MUCH better than what I originally wrote, meaning that I think you will want to purchase the book even if I have articles already available on most of the book's subjects. With that out of the way, here is Chapter 11 of my upcoming book: Pat Casey, King of the Powerlifters... ...