Five years ago today, a man who had become a brother to me, passed away.
His contribution to the training community was unique, and even years down the road no one has been able to take his place. My other brothers by choice – Craig Douglas, Chris Fry, Larry Lindenman, and Paul Sharp – and myself decided we were not going to let his work disappear. I had a bit more time than they did so I started gathering every bit of information William had put out and to find a place to put it. Rob Pincus generously and without any conditions offered to host the tribute page for free so everyone would be able to still learn from the amazing things William taught. I am forever in Rob’s debt for doing that. He did not have to, but being a good friend himself of William’s, he knew it had to be done. Rob also put up on the page two entire DVDs of William lecturing that he had been selling. He could have continued making money off of them, but instead acted for the greater good and the memory of his friend.
I spent weeks skimming the web, and everyone who had done an article, podcast, or interview with William gave their blessing to use those materials, and some people went out of their way to dig up links to give me. I can’t even name them all know, but I think I thanked them on the tribute page, and I’m even more grateful to them five years later.
I hope everyone goes to the following link and bookmarks it so William’s work lives on.
I could not do anything to keep William here, but I will be damned if I let his memory fade.