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Umm, I once attended a short seminar with George Dillman, none of it really appealed to me, since most of it was on pressure points, which I wasn't studying at the time. I know the man to be at least somewhat famous. He trained under Ed Parker, the creator of American kenpo, and also worked with both Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali. One of the leading voices on kyusho jitsu (Okinawan stuff, mainly pressure point techniques) too.

Though I like Leon Jay more. He's a small circle ju-jitsu master, ninth degree black belt or something. We did a lot of finger lock stuff with him during another bit. This was all part of a big three day series of training seminars my dojo held. But ye', he was an entertaining guy, he totally spent some time like, ******** my arm up striking heart points too, it was great.

The owner and founder of the dojo I go to, Steve Stewart, is pretty big too. When I was just starting out at the old school he taught the classes most of the time, which was fun, but the school's really expanded, moved to a new building a few years back and stuff, so I don't see him as often. He worked with Ed Parker too, and Dillman, a big kyusho jitsu guy as well, though the dojo's focus is on American kenpo, but he holds pressure points classes once a month as well, which I'm now attending. But ye', he's the highest ranked black belt in both kenpo and kyusho jitsu in Canada, seriously, no bullshido or whatever, so I'm rather honoured to train under him.

Edit: Heh, I should probably go about joining this guild...

*shrugs* I'm still a little skeptical myself, since I haven't actually seen him or Steve do one live. I did see a video of Mr. Stewart doing one at a seminar. He knocked out a couple of people I actually know using some neck points, and then did a no touch for the finale.

Of course this'd garner a lot of "Well you didn't -see- him"s and "It could've been fake"s, but the man has never presented himself to me as someone who would bother with such deceptions. Like, even the video itself presents a sense of the genuine, about a minute before he bangs everything out, Steve just tells everyone how to attack, and instructs the last person on what to do for the no touch.

Like, it isn't practical, since the instructions were "Get -really- angry and throw punches into the air.", but it's still very interesting to watch, and is something I really would like to see live.