First off, thank you for your reply and setting the record straight.
“The intimation of this post is that the IKCA scheduled the West Coast Kenpo Confederation at the same time as Frank Trejo's Internationals intentionally and refused to cooperate. This simply is not the case. The booking to reserve the venue for the WCKC was a year before the event. Anyone even remotely familiar with the the IKCA knows they strive to hold their event on the last weekend in July each year. In fact, in 2003 the IKCA went out of their way to support the Internationals. The statement that the IKCA was given a chance to be a part of the Internationals thereby combining the event, is blatantly untrue regardless of who made the statement. This offer would have had to have been made VERY early in the planning stages.”
In rereading my post I can certainly see that that conclusion could be reached. I did not word it very well and ran my sentences on. My question though was an honest one from an outside observation perspective. I couldnÂ’t see why this would happen and the only two reasons I could come up with was either political or promotional which I stated. I have heard nothing but good things about Mr. Trejo and Mr. Sullivan but made no assumptions concerning the inner workings of their relationship. You have a better understanding of the workings of the IKCA and I thank you for sharing your insight.
"Is there a communication problem or is there some petty political B.S. that is preventing this coming together on a once a year basis. If it is a communication problem then the promoters need to step up their advertisement and send out promo to all the schools and heads of the various organizations ASAP. If it is political in nature then it is my opinion that those with specific grievances should be man or woman enough to put aside their differences, get over it for a weekend and lend your support to Mr. Trejo."
Mr. Parsons, this statement is where I screwed up when I said I was running my sentences together. I should have started this as a new paragraph and prefaced it with.
“ The above paragraph is an example of my confusion. Many other heads of organizations and their students were conspicuously absent in their support of the IKC’s”
It is why I said “man or woman enough to put aside their differences…” I did not intentionally mean to pick on the IKCA or Mr. Sullivan who I hold in high regard and I apologize for my statements and poor command of sentence structure that led to that conclusion.
To state how you wish for things not to be political in Kenpo while at the same time pointing fingers and talk about being "man or woman enough" is doing nothing more than stirring the pot.
Where as I stated previously I didnÂ’t mean to point fingers I did mean to stir the pot a bit. I think it takes a bigger man or woman to overcome their petty political B.S. and commit to a better cause. By that I mean take the focus off of yourself and consider the benefit to your students. Their problem with someone else should not prevent their students from enjoying the fine event that this is shaping up to be.
I enjoy reading your post as they are usually quite informative, but next time make sure you have the facts and a proper understanding, and leave the political comments out of the picture.
You forgot to add “and a better command of what you are trying to say”
. As far as “leaving the political comments out of the picture” I most always do as I generally prefer to talk technical rather than political; however I will if I feel it is necessary, but with a future eye to saying exactly what I mean so there is no confusion.
If you would be kind enough to explain to Mr. Sullivan that if there was offence in what I wrote it was not intentional. Thank you again for your comments and I look forward to future discourse.
