Dan Weston posted a link to this classic article over at Martialtalk. Apparently Black Belt has put many of their magazines into Google Books as an archive, which is much more comprehensive than the archives at the Black Belt Magazine site.
I find this article pretty informative, as the descriptions are of Fred Villari as an accomplished martial artist are telling. Also telling, or at least perhaps some foreshadowing is the level of exaggeration Villari puts into the article. He’s 30, but mentions starting his school “8-10 years ago”, even though he apparently started studying with Nick Cerio in 1967, and received his black belt in 1969, only six years before the article. Perhaps a sign?
