Open Challenge to Poekoelan!!!

I have an open CHALLENGE to all Poekoelaners out there!!! I challenge people like Dick Kulge, Bill Doubich, Barbara Niggle, Eugene “Peanut” Tuffs, Gale Shotzinger, and anyone reading this that does Poekoelan to the toughest battle of their lives. I challenge you to fight your own pride, and chest pounding. To fight against keeping the family feud from going on. I challenge you to make a new path for our art. We still worry about who beat whom back in the day. Let me tell you this, I HAVE BEATEN CHAMPS, AND I HAVE BEEN BEATEN BY CHUMPS! The one that won was only the better person at that moment in time.

Fight against deeming Roy or Willy an evil person. Fighting against saying an entire lineage is no good based on whom they learned their skills from. The lineage that is no good is the one that has a lot of hate in it. However, you can redeem your lineage by ending that hate. I would love to say that my teach was unbeatable, but let’s get real. Every man is beatable, even Great Grandmaster William J.C. Wetzel. WOW, listen to everyone gasp in disbelief. How do I know Willy was beatable, easy, he was a prisoner of war in Indonesia. They had to get him there somehow, and the Japanese found out what it would take to put him there.

I challenge every Poekoelaner to put away their hate for whomever, and move forwards into a new future. One where we can all learn from one another, and learn all that Willy taught. Myself, I never really heard of Poekoelan Sera, or Poekoelan Tjialong before, and I would love to these arts in action. Willy taught different thing at different times. For example, Gale Shotzinger’s students may never have learned Langkah Satu, Dua, and Tiga because Willy and Goeroe Peanuts haven’t developed them yet. Bill Doubich teaches these Langkahs, but not Umpat and Lima. However, Barbara Niggle teaches them because she was learning these Langkahs after Willy, and Peanuts developed them.

Just because one person doesn’t know this or that doesn’t invalidate their skill. It just means they or their teacher were trained during different times. This is where we all come together all learn every that Willy taught over the years. This way we all can learn, and we all can have everything.

I challenge the Poekoelan Community to put this broken family system, and lineage back together again. I challenge the Poekoelan Community to become one family without saying one person’s lineage is wrong, or an art of demon. I challenge the Poekoelan Community to value everything thing every instructors have. I challenge you, and are you Man/Woman enough to accept this challenge???

I HOPE YOU ARE, BECAUSE THIS WILL BE THE FIGHT OF YOUR LIFE AGAINST AN OPPONENT THAT BEEN KICKING OUR BUTTS FOR YEARS.