Vincent Black Passed Away

[kenneth fish]

Vincent Black passed away last week. My condolences to his students and friends.

[KEND]

RIP Sorry to hear that--old school

[edededed]

Very sad to hear - a loss of one of the legends.

[grzegorz]

Sorry to hear the bad news.

Never met the man but know many who knew or trained with him and I only heard good things.

[wayne hansen]

VALE Vince part of the TST brotherhood
How old was Vince

[Peacedog]

When I spoke with Tom Bisio this weekend I thought he said Vince was 64.

Based off of comments in the thread, I may have misheard the correct age.

[Steve James]

RIP.

[robert]

I'm sorry to hear that. He certainly trained seriously in MAs and TCM - RIP.

[meeks]

I've always had the utmost respect for Vince after David Devere and I drove from Tempe to Tucson (twice in 1 week) to meet him in person while I was in Az visiting David, almost 25 years ago. He was a warm host and an open book on martial arts. He was kind enough to demonstrate his skills on us ... He lightly tapped the top of my head and I felt it snowball to my guts where suddenly my only thoughts were how to not crap my drawers. That was just 1 of many things he demonstrated. Then he invited us inside for tea where we chatted until late...and we had literally "just showed up" on his doorstep. Shame to lose such a gifted artist at such a young age .

[wayne hansen]

I never met Vince in person
My first knowledge of him was in 1975
Master Hsu gave me a book by John Price and Vince was one of the photos in the book
I find it hard to think he is only 64 for at that time I thought he was older than me

[JOG]

Vince was 68; he would have been 69 this year.

[middleway]

RIP. A common name in the CIMAs since I started in them. Condolences to all who knew him.

[Rhen]

I've always had the utmost respect for Vince after David Devere and I drove from Tempe to Tucson (twice in 1 week) to meet him in person while I was in Az visiting David, almost 25 years ago. He was a warm host and an open book on martial arts. He was kind enough to demonstrate his skills on us ... He lightly tapped the top of my head and I felt it snowball to my guts where suddenly my only thoughts were how to not crap my drawers. That was just 1 of many things he demonstrated. Then he invited us inside for tea where we chatted until late...and we had literally "just showed up" on his doorstep. Shame to lose such a gifted artist at such a young age .

interesting, I think I recall hearing a story where a BJJ guy challenged Vince and he did that slap strike to the top of the BJJ guys head when the BJJ guy went in for a take down and Vince knocked the guy out. just hearsay so I don't know if it it totally true or not.

Rest in peace.

[I-mon]

One of those names that's been around since I first got into IMA as well, only ever heard him mentioned with great respect and friendship.

[Martin]

RIP