"Several years back I met James LaFond at Jimmy Frederick’s Kempo school in Towson, Maryland, where he was giving a seminar on stick fighting and boxing with Sifu Arturo Gabriel (whom I’ve been studying Wing Chun and Escrima under for about twenty years now). Sifu Gabriel had been telling me about James for a long time before I actually met him, explaining that James was also a writer and working on a book that studied the violence in Baltimore in a realistic way from first-hand accounts..."

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