William 'Blinky' Rodriguez

So at the end of the day, I mean, hey, it's vicious.

You've got to be conditioned.

I mean, you've got to put in the work without a doubt.

You know what I mean?

Because exhaustion has made cowards many.

So that whole Buddha heart, the tradition, that atmosphere, that spirit, little by little started dissipating.

And then the new era starts coming in.

And they can switch rounds.

switch opponents oh do they sometimes that's what I understood they switch opponents in between rounds opponents my god

Who they're betting on.

And then, of course, the leg checks, counters, and we started getting the idea, okay, this is how you fight them.

And then you have other styles for American bread fighters that didn't have part of that game in their repertoire of arsenal, you know what I'm saying?

Right, right.

So I think that's what the other thing that the PK did.

It didn't give anybody from the PK a chance to learn, you know, internationally what was going on in the world.

Not to put them down because, you know what, that was all part of us moving forward, you know, back in the day, learning.

But when you come up through Shotokan, you're gonna know how to sweep, and you're gonna know how to front kick.

You know what I mean?

And so that was on the traditional side of the art.

But yeah.