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"Long before anyone would listen, a muay Thai prophet named John McPhail was championing the strengths of Thailand's national treasure."
By Dave Cater TEN YEARS AGO, there was a handful of people in this country who tried to tell anyone within shouting distance about a new technological breakthrough involving the computer. They predicted that someday you could talk to people around the world in a moment's notice by just pressing a few numbers on the keyboard and then hitting a button. They said that in the no so distant future, people once separated by oceans and mountains, time zones and culture, could not only meet, but also discuss the problems of the day in a rationale manner. They said it was the wave of the future. They were buried under a wave of naysayers who couldn't see past their telephone cords. |
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Love At First Kick
Now you can understand how John McPhail felt 25 years ago. It was around 1975 when McPhail got his first taste of muay Thai. It was love at first bite, so to speak. But delivering the message to others didn't go down as easy. McPhail, who was studying san soo kung fu with the legendary Jimmy H. Woo at the time, was fighting a two headed dragon called martial arts tradition. On one side were karate practitioners who believed their tradition rich system was the very core of all other styles. On another side was the newly discovered art of kung fu, born centuries ago in China but only recently resurrected by a man named Caine. |
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