In the early up to mid late 80's I was in the
Guardian Angels Boston chapter, not really a gang per se, but an anti gang/anti crime community patrol. This was when I was at the peak of my martial arts training. It was a real eye opener for me & opened alot of doors for me & gave me several opportunites to utilize skills I could really only use in full contact tournaments. It was pretty tough out there some nights.. It was still pretty early in the groups movement & there was alot of negative sentiment sometimes, but things changed since then.. I recall one night on a community street patrol, we were outnumbered by a gang of armed thugs & ended up roof skipping across Columbia Point Projects to get the fuck out of there,,