I met him back in 1999 when I was in a few of the Tae Bo live videos. They had a weekend of taping in southern California and you could sign up and do as many of them as you wanted. I met Billy Blanks in between a couple of the tapings and he was incredibly kind and gracious. I still have a couple of photos of me with him and Shelly, and I had bought his book, which he signed. It's hard to believe that was almost 22 years ago. Sounds like we both have some replacement parts these days