Lineage Master – Grand Master Biography In the summer of 1977, the only commercial martial art school in Plano, Texas was in an old two story building in downtown. It had little to offer in terms of amenities. In fact, a fan in one of the two windows upstairs where classes were held provided the only air-conditioning during the hot summer months. The walls had a few certificates and pictures hung about and some mirrors along one wall. The floor was carpeted with no mats. The school had just one assistant instructor and the head instructor himself who became founder Terry Glen Raitt's first and most influential instructor for over twenty-seven years. That instructor was Michael D. Park. At the time, Michael D. Park was a thirty year old instructor. Even then, he had an eclectic approach to martial art learning what he could from those of other arts while incorporating all he had learned into a single body of knowledge. In the fall of that year, the school was closed for economic reasons. That almost ended young student Raitt's study of martial art, but within a month he received a phone call from a peer stating that instructor Park wanted to continue training a few of the students from the school. So, young student Raitt began training privately with Park. Although each followed different paths of study in martial art over the many years of their association, sometimes training together in a given art and sometimes training in separate arts, this private training relationship continued eventually evolving into an exchange of knowledge each had gained.