UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MAGAZINE

My letter to the Editor of UNH MAGAZINE was published in the SPRING 2009 issue pp. 4- 21-38 in the section LETTERS TO THE EDITOR under the topic heading: DEBATING DAGGETT CONTINUES.

PASS IN REVIEW

This topic will deal specifically with book reviews of authors whom I have been privileged to meet and whose autographed books are in my possession at present. Some of them are martial artists as is to be expected but there are other areas involved. Reviews of these books will follow when time permits.

MARTIAL ARTS MAGAZINES

Prior to the publication of BLACK BELT MAGAZINE only a few publications existed that could actually be termed martial arts magazines. Prior to BB( as it is often called) the first US magazine that dealt with martial arts was JUDO DIGEST and had early karate, jiu-jitsu, kendo,etc. articles and photos but it soon ceased publication after around 6-7 issues. I was a subscriber and still have all of them. I had planned to donate them to the HAWAII KARATE MUSEUM and may still do so some day. BLACK BELT MAGAZINE was the recipient of several letters to the editors/publishers from me over a period of years. My name has been mentioned in their archival reprints of the notable features,items, and covers of the old issues, which the new owners had two ORIGINAL AND VALUABLE sets ,ONE OF WHICH THEY SACRIFICED for placing on the internet! The entire set was torn apart and sliced up to do this as the process is not like actual printing or archiving otherwise. To set the record straight, I have had only ONE ARTICLE published by Black Belt, but I do have several rejection slips or letters from them,one of which is perhaps the more interesting of all of them. It was a rejection of an article of mine by the owner/publisher at the time,signed by him, of an article on CHINESE YOGA, which he felt had not place in a martial arts magazine. NOW, just look at the numerous Qi Gong, Yoga, etc. articles in martial arts magazines but in magazines devoted entirely to such!

LISTING OF MY MARTIAL ARTS ARTICLES

I plan to make a grand list of my articles that have been published over the years in various magazines and also to make a list of publications where my 'LETTERS TO EDITORS' have appeared, knowing full well, that many of them are lost and incomplete listings may well be impossible. I have written a number of articles that are not on martial arts and I was at one time better known as a writer in the Philippines than in the US. So any of you interested in all these details on my literary excursions and efforts(minimal as they have been fiction-wise) please bear with me and be most patient. I have to say also that many of my thoughts, plots, and 'real' writings are on scraps of paper in the form of notes, ramblings, and rantings, and so forth, all of which I can never really sort out or sift through unless I become a millionaire(unlikely now) and have the time and patience and energy to compile and make coherent. So I hope you who may read this, and get this far, will accept this literary confession of mine in good faith and good humor.