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THE INDIANA

JONES

OF THE

NINJUTSU WORLD

By Master Guy Edward Larke

t Is hard to be an
IIndIvIdual. It Is harder

to do It a conservatIve en-

vIronment. now try to be
a leader of many on top of

that. for young readers

that may not seem lIke a bIg a very eclectic group of martial artists
deal but for us more “seasoned” who bond regardless of race, art, or re-

veterans It was a challengIng realI- ligion. The group was called the Malay-
sian Wen Wu Martial Arts Association.
ty. the Ideals of the chInese classIc, The head of it being a long haired Nin-

outlaws of the water margIn are jutsu instructor who was one-part war-
wonderful, but those characters rior, one-part philosopher, and one part

too were socIal parIah. rebel who looked like he belonged in the
USA or Canada rather than Malaysia.

Growing up in small towns in Canada What kind of person would follow the

and even a few small cities in Korea, I path he had interested me both as a
knew the feelings of alienation for being writer and as a martial artist. Here are
different. Fortunately, through my writ- a few of the answers…
ing I learned there is no need to be an
island. One of those bridges came from James, or Lee Peek-Kuan, born on March
a good friend, Grandmaster AVS Bathi 11th, 1965 in Perak State in Malaysia. He
of Kuala Lumpur. He introduced me to grew up with his parents and two young-

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