I cannot defend any qualifications or certificates that he earned. I was young and did not know about what good or credible martial arts were at that time. At the time - I was amazed at the power that he had in his right hand when he punched. Later on, after researching his training methods, I found out that damaging your hand like that was irreversible. I am sure that now in his 70s that he is paying the price for damaging his hand.
His Jujitsu was impressive, but then again, I was a young man who never saw any real jujitsu before, so you have to take what I say from a lack of experience point of view. I did look up Hakkō-ryū Jūjutsu and Jukishen Ryu in the Detroit area and could not find any old schools where he could have trained back in his youth. He must have traveled out to the East Coast in order to train in those arts.
His son, Little Al, was very good and had all kinds of trophies from tournaments. However, in the 90s he was killed in an auto accident in Nevada.
