This is my friend Pete who has become somewhat of a celebrity in his own right. He tends bar at Melody lanes in Brooklyn and will, without much prying at all, tell you about his "Triangulation theory" he and a friend call Zaphoria. You can read more about him in the articles below.

Back when I was growing up in the Sunset park area of Brooklyn, there were a large number of gangs. Actually, there were gangs in every borough. To give you an Idea what it was like back then, I have links to information, pictures and video's. I knew many of these gang bangers back then.

Thanks to Kingklast and others for much of these links!

**Pictures and information **

Streetgangs

egradioonline.com

**Video's* *

1st Annual Outlaw Reunion (part 1) 1st Annual Outlaw Reunion (part 2) 1st Annual Outlaw Reunion (part 3)

Shidoshi John Manniel is the founder of the Kar-Do-Jitsu-Ryu

(I knew John pretty well and many of the guys he trained)

You can find more diverse gang video's by clicking on Kingklast's name above. I'll add others as I find them.

Combat training

I studied boxing for 2 years from coach Gregory based from the lunar boxing

club (Now defunct?).