'My investigation of technique took me on a long mental journey as I followed my fighting trail through the West, where I had worked at any job I could get in mines, lumber camps, hash houses, on ranches, etc.
I was fighting on the side in those days, and I was getting pointers on self-defence from all the old-timers I met.
Each trainer, each manager, each fighter had his own ideas, and his own specialities.

Like a blotter on legs, I absorbed all that information in those days, and discarded what seemed wrong.'
Jack Dempsey