Reproduced herein is the entire text of the lawsuit against Dr. Dale Dugas as written by Martin Pedata or, at least written by one of his legal assistants and approved by Pedata. Either way, this is poorly written, self-contradictory, chock full of spelling and grammatical errors, and it should be a source of embarrassment for the writer. It is amateurish, rife with incompetence and, if exemplary of the work product produced by Pedata and his assistants, brings the competence of his entire career into question. The stupidity contained in this document has been faithfully reproduced, to the best of my ability. Images of the original are included for comparison. Now, I'm going to go scold my fingers for typing it all. Filing #117216366 E-Filed 11/24/2020 02:37:02PM IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: DIVISION: STEVEN W. HATFIELD AND BRET GORDON, Plaintiffs, v. DALE DUGAS, a/k/a GERALD GREYSMITH, GG, and LORDES SAPIENS, and TWELVE JOHN DOES, Defendants COMPLAINT The Plaintiffs, Steven W. Hatfield and Bret Gordon, by and through their undersigned attorney, hereby sues the Defendants, Dale Dugas, a/k/a Gerald Greysmith, GG and Lordes Sapiens, and Twelve John Does, who have yet to be determined, and allege: GENERAL ALLEGATIONS 1. At all times material to this complaint, the Plaintiff, Steven W. Hatfield was a resident of the State of Ohio and operated a martial arts business called The Technician Dojo. 2. At all times material to this complaint, the Plaintiff, Bret Gordon was a resident of the Lake County, Florida and operated a martial arts business called Trio Martial Arts. 3. At all times material to this complaint, the Defendant, Dale Dugas, a/k/a/ Gerald Greysmith, GG and Lordes Sapiens, was a resident of Pasco County, Florida. 4. At all times material to this complaint, the Defendant, Dale Dugas, a/k/a/ Gerald Greysmith, GG and Lordes Sapiens, along with twelve other unknown parties, conspired in publishing defamatory statements regarding the Plaintiffs on a facebook page known as “Bullshit Martial Arts”. 5. At all times material to this complaint, the Defendant, Dale Dugas, a/k/a/ Gerald Greysmith and GG, conspired with Lordes Sapiens and others. 6. Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action because he has been directly affected and victimized by the unlawful conduct complained herein which occurred and were widely published in the Circuit and Lake County. They are proximately related to the conduct of Defendants. COUNT I - DEFAMATION 7. This is a cause of action for damages that exceeds $30,000. 8. The Plaintiffs reallege the allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 6 above as if fully set forth herein. 9. Defendant Dale Dugas, a/k/a Gerald Greysmith GG and Lordes Sapiens, along with twelve other unknown parties published defamatory statements about Plaintiffs contained in Exhibits “A”, “B”, “C” and “D” attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein. The Defendants specifically made the following defamatory statements about Plaintiffs, to wit: they are frauds and liars, that they pretend to be martial arts grandmasters, that they are supporters of rapists and pedophiles, that their businesses and organizations are diploma mills, that their ranks are fake and that they are martial arts frauds and child rape apologists. 10. The aforementioned statements were published on Internet sites and a facebook site called Bullshit Martial Arts, which is controlled by the Defendants. 11. Furthermore, the Defendant, Dale Dugas, a/k/a Gerald Greysmith GG and Lordes Sapiens and GG, and other unknown Defendants, created a facebook page known as Kaiso Krunchdown to publish false and misleading information about Plaintiff Gordon. 12. The social media and Internet postings referred to plaintiffs by name throughout, was made of and concerning plaintiffs, and was so understood by those who read the postings that the defamatory statements were written about plaintiffs. The entire statements about Plaintiffs were false. 13. The Defendants knew or should have known that the defamatory statements were false at the time the statements were made. The statements were published maliciously and recklessly by Defendants with the total disregard as to their truth or falsity and to the utter disregard of the rights of Plaintiffs. 14. The defamatory statements are libelous on its face. They clearly expose Plaintiffs to hatred, contempt, ridicule and obloquy because they wrongfully and maliciously made false statements about Plaintiffs in their professional capacity with the intent to harm plaintiffs in their business and professional capacity. 15. The above-described publications were not privileged because it was published by Defendants with actual malice hatred and ill will toward Plaintiffs and with the desire to injure them in their business and professional capacities. 16. As a direct and proximate cause of the Defendant's conduct, plaintiffs have suffered compensatory damages and injury to their reputation. WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs demand judgment against defendant for damages, plus costs of bringing this action and demands trial by jury. COUNT II – DEFAMATION PER SE 17. This is a cause of action for damages that exceeds $30,000. 18. The Plaintiffs reallege the allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 6 and 8 through 15 above as if fully set forth herein. 19. Defendants published these malicious, false, misleading and defamatory statements regarding Plaintiffs stating that they are rapists and/or pedophiles and/or support the act of rape and/or pedophilia, participate in fraudulent and dishonest business practices, fraudulently award martial arts rank in their martial arts schools, that they are liars, fraudulently hold martial arts ranks to gain prestige in operating their businesses, and that they operate illegal martial arts businesses. 20. Under Florida law, “it is established. . .that an oral or written communication is actionable per se – that is, without a showing of special damage – if it imputes to another (a) a criminal offense amounting to a felony, or (b) a presently existing venereal or other loathsome and communicable disease, or (c) conduct, characteristics or a condition incompatible with the proper exercise of his lawful business, trade, profession or office, or (d) the other being a woman, acts of unchastity.” Wolfson v. Kirk, 273 So. 2d 774, 777 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1973). 21. These false and misleading statements were published with malice, as Defendants knew that they were false and misleading, or at a minimum acted with a reckless disregard for the truth. 22. This malicious false, misleading and defamatory statements were published on the internet in this Circuit and the County of Lake, domestically and internationally for the entire world to see and hear and specifically Defendants published these malicious false and misleading “facts,” inter alia, that Plaintiffs' conduct, characteristics or a condition is incompatible with the proper exercise of his lawful business, trade, profession or office. 23. This false, misleading, and defamatory statements concerning Plaintiffs are defamatory per se and these false and misleading statements, and others which will be uncovered in discovery, severely harmed and damaged Plaintiffs in their profession and business as martial arts instructors, as they concern conduct and characteristics incompatible with being a martial arts instructor and school teaching martial arts to the public at large and specifically, to child, teenagers, young adults and their families. 24. Damage is presumed by law when defamation per se is shown. 25. As a direct and proximate cause of Defendant's conduct, plaintiffs have suffered compensatory damages and injury to their reputation. WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs demand judgment against defendant for damages, plus costs of bringing this action and demands trial by jury. COUNT III – DEFAMATION BY IMPLICATION 26. This is a cause of action for damages that exceeds $30,000. 27. The Plaintiffs reallege the allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 6, 8 through 15 and 19 through 24 above as if fully set forth herein. 28. Defendants published these malicious, false, misleading and defamatory statements regarding Plaintiffs, creating the implication that Plaintiffs are rapists and/or pedophiles and/or support the act of rape and/or pedophilia, participate in fraudulent and dishonest business practices, fraudulently award martial arts rank in their martial arts schools, that they are liars, fraudulently hold martial arts ranks to gain prestige in operating their businesses, and that they operate illegal martial arts businesses. 29. Defendants published these malicious, false and defamatory statements when taken together as a whole, constitute defamation by implication. 30. These false, misleading and defamatory statements were published with malice, as Defendants knew that they were false and misleading, or at a minimum acted with reckless disregard for the truth. 31. These malicious statements severely harmed and damaged Plaintiffs in their profession and business as martial arts instructors, as they concern conduct and characteristics incompatible with being a martial arts instructor and school teaching martial arts to the public at large and specifically, to child, teenagers, young adults and their families. 32. Plaintiffs have been severely harmed damaged by these published statements because they subjected them to hatred, distrust, ridicule, contempt, and disgrace. 33. Plaintiffs have been damaged by these malicious, false and misleading statements, and others which will be disclosed during discovery, because the statements severely harmed and damaged Plaintiffs in their profession and business as martial arts instructors, as they concern conduct and characteristics incompatible with being a martial arts instructor and school teaching martial arts to the public at large and specifically, to child, teenagers, young adults and their families. 34. Damage is presumed by law when defamation per se is shown. 35. As a direct and proximate cause of Defendant's conduct, plaintiffs have suffered compensatory damages and injury to their reputation. WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs demand judgment against defendant for damages, plus costs of bringing this action and demands trial by jury. IV – CIVIL CONSPIRACY 36. This is a cause of action for damages that exceeds $30,000. 37. The Plaintiffs reallege the allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 6, 8 through 15 and 19 through 24 above as if fully set forth herein. 38. The Defendants acted together and conspired to publish defamatory statements regarding the Plaintiffs in order to destroy their businesses and to subject them hatred, distrust, ridicule, contempt, and disgrace. 39. The Defendants, acting in concert, did an unlawful act or did a lawful act by unlawful means, by defaming the Plaintiffs in their individual and professional capacity. 40. In furtherance of the conspiracy, one or more of the Defendants, published the defamatory statements on the Internet and/or other social media platforms, including, but not limited to, facebook. 41. As a direct and proximate result of the Defendants' conduct, the Plaintiff suffered damages, including loss profits. WHEREFORE, the plaintiff demands judgment against the defendants for damages, plus costs for bringing this action and demands trial by jury. COUNT V – INJUNCTION 42. This is a cause of action for a temporary and permanent injunction which is within jurisdiction of this court. 43. The Plaintiffs reallege the allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 6, 0 through 15 and 19 through 24 above as if fully set forth herein. 44. Plaintiffs seek a permanent and preliminary injunction restraining Defendants, during the pendency of this litigation, from continuing their campaign of publishing defamatory statements against Plaintiffs and for Defendants to remove from the Internet all defamatory statements previously made. 45. The Plaintiffs further seek permanent and preliminary injunction from restraining Defendants, during the pendency of this litigation, from continuing their campaign of tortuously interfering with Plaintiffs, contractual and business relationships with their respective students. The Defendants are intentionally and maliciously contacting Plaintiffs' students in an attempt to get each student to terminate their contract and business relationship with Plaintiffs with the goal to shut Plaintiffs' businesses down. 46. Unless enjoined, Defendants will continue, throughout the course of this lawsuit, to take steps toward accomplishing their goal of destroying the Plaintiffs' reputation and ability to conduct their respective ventures. 47. Each additional step that Defendants are permitted to take will cause irreparable harm to Plaintiffs, in that the closer Defendants get to accomplishing their goal, the more difficult, if not impossible it will become for Plaintiffs to conduct their respective businesses in their respective industry. In fact, the public has raised issues regarding the integrity of Plaintiffs and their business practices after reading the Defendants' postings on the Internet. 48. Plaintiffs have no adequate remedy at law. Absent injunctive relief, there is no way to preserve the status quo pending a determination of the issues in this action, nor to effect a return to the status quo after final determination. WHEREFORE, plaintiffs respectfully request that this court enter an order granting its request for injunctive relief. LAW OFFICE OF MARTIN PEDATA
/s/Martin Pedata Martin A. Pedata, Esq. 120 R. Rich Avenue DeLand, Florida 32720 (386) 748-0941 Telephone [email protected] Florida Bar No.: 745790 EXHIBIT A https://martialartsfraudsandfakes.wordpress.com/2020/08/14/open-letter-to-bret-gordon/ EXHIBIT B https://greysmithinvestigations.blogspot.com/2020/10/that-old-song-and-dance-gerald-j.html EXHIBIT C https://martialartsfraudsandfakes.wordpress.com/2020/09/29/bret-gordon-steven-hatfield-and-how-im-making-better-liars-out-of-frauds/ EXHIBIT D https://martialartsfraudsandfakes.wordpress.com/2020/09/29/bret-gordon-steven-hatfield-and-how-im-making-better-liars-out-of-frauds/ (Yes, Pedata really did include the same article as 2 separate “exhibits”, “C” is the comments section, and “D” is the article itself. And this man is an actual bar-licensed attorney.)
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It has recently been brought to my attention that I am not really Harold K. Howard, that I am, in reality, Harold C. Howard, former UFC fighter and convicted felon. Imagine my surprise. I thought I was supposed to be Dale Dugas? Or was it Gerald Greysmith? Or was it Carmen Sandiego? Or did I shoot J.R.? Or did I shoot Greedo first? Or was I Ra's al Ghul? Perhaps I am just a glitch in the matrix. The world may never know. At any rate, Gerald J. let me know about a post by none other than one of the most famous frauds in the world of martial arts – Franklin Wanks Ducks, er, Frank W. Dux. I feel honored. In an ashamed, dirty kinda way. This appears to have originated with Arkham escapee #96530, whose name is similar to Dumbass Witless Gelding (or something like that) who, the only crayon he hadn't already eaten in hand, assumed everything he posted without performing a simple internet search, assumed that wikipedia is a reliable source to confirm said assumptions, and tapped out his mental midden heap onto a keyboard. Frank Dux, fool that he is, doesn't care about trivialities like truth, reality, facts, evidence, etc., so he did the only thing fools know how to do, he ran with it. Without considering the source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Howard Let's go down the list, shall we? It's H.K., not H.C. Is it Howard, or is it Hayward? I'm an American, not a Canadian (sorry Canuckleheads). I don't have a black belt in jujutsu. I don't have a black belt in goju ryu. I have never competed. Not in mma, and certainly not in the UFC. I have never attempted to murder anyone, family member or otherwise. I have never been sentenced to a term in any prison. Some of the assumptions made in this largely incoherent blog entry: Somehow, after only weeks of membership and spotty participation, I am now the “leader” of the Bullshit Martial Arts facebook group. Fact Check: FALSE I am not even an administrator of the group, nor do I care to be. I wear wife-beaters and sport a mullet. Fact Check: FALSE I do not wear wife-beaters, nor do I sport a mullet. My preferences tend to short-sleeved t-shirts and buzzcuts. I am prohibited by federal law from owning any firearms. Fact Check: FALSE I fully support the Second Amendment and do not object to firearms ownership, even though I do not personally own one. I have been ordered to supply authorities with a DNA sample. Fact Check: FALSE I have never been ordered by any governmental authority to provide anyone with a DNA sample. Nor have I met any female officers attractive enough to be rewarded with one. So, if I'm not Harold C. Howard, then who am I? My true identity is irrelevant to the discussion. I am not the subject, frauds and their false claims are the subject. I am a private American citizen exercising his right to freedom of the press, granted by God and protected (somewhat) by the Constitution. If someone has any evidence that I am Harold C. Howard, or Dale Dugas, or anyone else, I'd like to see it. And that's that. I did have a good laugh about this, though. Thanks, fools. It's been a running bet/joke at Greysmith Investigations as to just how stupid Bret Gordon could really be. Every time someone says that he couldn't be stupid enough to do X – Bret Gordon, without hesitation, quips “Hold my milkshake”, then proceeds to prove them wrong. It seems pretty clear with this evidence that Bret Gordon has committed not one, but two misdemeanors in his misguided attempts to silence his detractors and protect the fiefdom of fraud created by Steven Hatfield and himself. In their desperate attempt to protect, preserve and distract from their other immoral, unethical and criminal activities, Bret Gordon filed two fraudulent police reports, a misdemeanor in the first degree in Florida. The relevant parts of the statutes read: 837.05 False reports to law enforcement authorities. (1)(a) . . . a person who knowingly gives false information to a law enforcement officer concerning the alleged commission of any crime, commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.775.082 or s.775.083. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0800-0899/0837/Sections/0837.05.html A first degree misdemeanor is punishable by: 775.082 Penalties; applicability of sentencing structures; mandatory minimum sentences for certain re-offenders previously released from prison. (4) A person who has been convicted of a designated misdemeanor may be sentenced as follows: (a) For a misdemeanor of the first degree, by a definite term of imprisonment not exceeding 1 year; (5) Any person who has been convicted of a noncriminal violation may not be sentenced to a term of imprisonment nor to any other punishment more severe than a fine, forfeiture, or other civil penalty, except as provided in chapter 316 or by ordinance of any city or county. (7) This section does not deprive the court of any authority conferred by law to decree a forfeiture of property, suspend or cancel a license, remove a person from office, or impose any other civil penalty. Such a judgment or order may be included in the sentence. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=775.082&URL=0700-0799/0775/Sections/0775.082.html If I am reading and interpreting this correctly, Bret Gordon could face up to 2 years in prison (depending upon whether sentences are served consecutively or concurrently), and/or fines, forfeiture of property, loss of business license (if he has one), and/or any other penalty the court chooses to impose should he be brought up on charges. Just for fun, let's revisit the reports, this time with commentary and opinion. According to the official report, #OCPD20OFF004304 (05), officer Valle met with Bret Gordon, who related the information contained in the report, the text of which reads: “On 11/06/2020 at approximately 11:40 hours, I, Ofc. Omar Valle responded to 290 Capitol Court in reference to a harassment. “Prior to my arrival, Winter Garden Dispatch advised that the complainant wanted to file a report against males that came to his business and started to record him without his consent. Complainant also advised that these subjects posted their conversation from the night prior on social media. The complainant informed that they have been harassing him for approximately a year now. [Working backward, this entire escapade began (for Greysmith Investigations) when we read a defamatory article Gordon had written about a verifiably legitimate martial artist in late April or early May 2020. Since Gordon is incapable of correctly interpreting the hieroglyphic inscriptions on that modern contraption referred to as a “calendar”, that would be only 6 or 7 months, not a year. Though, to be somewhat fair, it probably seemed like MUCH longer to ol' Bretty Boop. The only attention Gordon and Hatfield had received prior to our involvement consisted of 3 people and their blogs. Funny how Gordon and Hatfield ignored others (Probably because he showed up in person and frightened Gordon.) and chose to focus on Dr. Dugas, even being stupid enough to claim that Dugas is Gerald Greysmith, which he is not. (And neither am I.) These blog posts are listed as follows in chronological order: 04/06/20: May the Circle (Jerk) be Unbroken: Part 1 by Lordus Sapiens https://martialartsfraudsandfakes.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/may-the-circle-jerk-be-unbroken-part-1/ 04.08.20: Lies in the Martial Arts by Don Roley http://www.coloradospringsninjutsu.com/Ranting_and_Ravings_2016/Entries/2020/4/8_Lies_in_the_Martial_Arts.html 04/09/20: Doughboys and Fat Ninjas by Barron Shepherd https://combatjudo.blogspot.com/2020/04/doughboys-and-fat-ninjas.html However, this is not the first time Gordon's “sensei” has come under scrutiny. People have been questioning the credibility of Steven Hatfield's claims since 2003, at least. These questions specifically concerned Hatfield's association with , and claims of judo credentials under Jack “Papasan” Stern, who was found to be guilty of committing the fraudulent act of stolen valor. http://www.martialtalk.com/threads/korean-yudo-hapkido-association.8086/ So, the first thing Gordon did was lie to the officer. No big surprise there. And, as pointed out by the officer later in the report, Gordon never once asked Dale or either of his two friends not to record, or to stop recording. Nor is posting the video on social media a violation of any Florida criminal statute. Failing to ask them to stop recording, and failing to ask them not to post said recording on the internet, is not a criminal offense. Complaining about it to the police just makes you look like a whiny little manchid, Karen.] “Upon my arrival, I met with the complainant, identified via FL Drivers License as Bret Michael Gordon. Bret advised that a subject, named Dale Dugas, came to his business in a threatening manner with 2 other unnamed subjects last night. Bret advised he invited Dale to show up to his business to talk about their personal issues on 11/12/2020, but Dale decided to show up unannounced on 11/05/2020 instead. Bret informed that Dale has a facebook group called “Bullshit Martial Arts” where he dedicated a substantial amount of time uploading videos and facebook posts talking about Bret's business. Bret advised that when Dale came in with his friends, he felt threatened and intimidated because the unknown 2 males were bigger. [“Bret informed that Dale “has a facebook group”.” This is another lie Gordon told the officer. Gordon does, or at least should, know that BSMA is NOT “Dale's group”, rather that Dale is, or was, nothing more than a member of that group. Here Gordon claims that “he felt threatened” by Dale and his 2 friends (What? Not “bodyguards”?) because they “were bigger”. But . . . but . . . you're KAISO!!! Kaiso ain't afraid uh Nobody!!! Kaiso's an indisputable MASSUH of mahshul ahts, ain't 'e??? Kaiso coulda whooped all dat ass in grand style, couldn't he? He coulda whooped one wit' his indomitable aiki jiujitsu, another wit' his hyperspeed kempo jiujitsu, then laid out the last one wit' his discombobulating Kodoklown judy chop. They'd never know whut hit 'em. Oh, but that's only when he's sitting in the dark spanking his brick, isn't it? The fevered fantasies of a martial arts wannabe who's never matured past the 16-year-old level he was when he first started his fraudulent career. He only became emboldened well after Dale had left and he felt safe once again. It's easy to be brave from a distance, isn't it Gordon? And, no, you didn't invite Dale to “talk about personal issues”. You challenged him to a physical sparring match to settle your dispute. You were just frightened because you didn't expect him to actually show up, and you were eager to seize upon ANY excuse to call off the event.] “Bret advised that he would like to fill out a police report and press charges for harassment. Bret provided me with numerous videos where Dale posted on his own facebook page (Bullshit Martial Arts) in regards to the credibility of Bret's certificates. Bret and Dale exchanged numerous public posts on facebook in passive aggressive demeanor towards each other and the differences they share. Bret then states online “despite you bailing out twice after demanding I name a time and place for us to step on the mat, I'm going to give you a third opportunity to show what a coward you truly are. Thursday, November 12th at 7:30PM, you are invited to my school. I look forward to this opportunity for us to settle our differences.” [Gordon lied to the officer, then provided him with a copy of the video which proves that he lied. Yes, Bret Gordon really is that stupid. Questioning the credibility of your certificates is not illegal, Gordon. Since you've attracted so much attention to yourself over the past several months, there are quite a number of people questioning your claims of legitimacy. And that number is growing. Making those claims in public obligates you to provide proof to the public.] “On Saturday at 9:06PM Bret writes in facebook messenger: “The rules of our match will be simple. One on one, unarmed. To protect each other legally, we need to be able to claim it is sparring. Therefore, mma gloves will be worn by both of us. That's it. Those are my terms.” “Approximately 2 days ago (11/04/2020) Bret posted on facebook: “Dale Dougas AP, On the 12th, if you show up and things get physical, and I win, I want everything you've ever posted about me taken down. All 33 videos (and counting), and all of your derogatory comments. If you win, I will do the same. Agreed?” “Upon researching the facebook group, I discovered that Bret made a facebook post after the 11/05/2020 incident. After Dale and his friends showed up, Bret went on facebook and said “It should also be clear how little I am bothered by standing there alone in front of Dale two of his friends, even with how hostile he has been online.” On a separate video, where Bret claimed to feel intimidated, I heard Bret saying to Dale and his friends “You are always welcome here” and he never told them to stop recording. [Which is it, Gordon? Either you “felt intimidated”, or it “bothered you little”. You lied to the officer about this as well, and he caught you with your own social media. You really are this stupid. Your credibility is in the toilet, Gordon. Your desperation for adulation has led you to committing crimes now. Is this the first? Never mind, you've been caught telling so many lies, you have no credibility left. Nothing you say can be believed. If you will lie to the police in order to damage someone who has, by your own admission, done you no real harm, how much farther will you go to protect your childish fantasies? How much farther will you go to protect Steven Hatfield's childish fantasies? Personally, I hope you have enough sense to go no further. Stop now before you become Ron Collins' cellmate.] “On facebook, Dale took a screeenshot where he is blatantly videotaping the entire incident. After reviewing these facts, I determined that Bret is not intimidated because he continued to invite and contact Dale despite his claims of Dale being hostile. Based on my investigation, this does not meet the criteria for F.S.S784.048 for below since both Bret and Dale exchanged passive aggressive comments to each other. “Both Bret and Dale agreed to meet up and at the time of the incident (11/05/20) Dale came in to bring his waiver (which was provided by Bret) to attend class on November 12th. “Bret, though he stated to Ocoee Police Department he is harassed and threatened by Dale, states multiple times on public posts calling out Dale and stating he is not scared. “Credible threat” means a threat made with the intent to cause the person who is the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety. The threat must be against the life of, or a threat to cause bodily injury to, a person. “Harass” means to engage in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress in such person and serves no legitimate purpose “This report is for informational purposes only. “I have an agency issued body camera that was on and activated during this investigation.” [There it is in plain English for everyone to see and determine for themselves. Bret Gordon lied to a police officer, thereby falsifying an official police report. And, in the interest of disclosure, the video in question can be viewed here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1702944253268681/permalink/2729764210586675/?__cft__[0]=AZUxnIIiFDpZdDC0SSCNltXstNCWl0BQJemK0tgEMLvapdorzhBBUo03R9hTH6EUWCn5BCbBw_fghj8rVaASQ3l4E3KB7s0D6emEsnAxqMYeNqK24txWhhXyHaARmGUMAbg&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R That apparently not being enough, another officer had to respond to Bret's butthurt bleating on November 25, 2020, the same day the suit was filed. [According to the narrative supplement to the official report, #OCPD20OFF004304 (05), officer Blake met with Bret Gordon, who related the information contained in the report, the text of which reads: “Information only. “On November 24, 2020, at approximately 1500 hours, I responded to 209 Capitol Court ( TrioMartialArts) in reference to online [threats]. “On arrival, I spoke to the victim, identified as Bret M. Gordon, he stated the following: “since last year, a facebook group called “Bullshit Martial Arts”, which is run by Don Roley out of Colorado has been posting defamatory statements about his business. One member in the group, name Dale Dugas has been posting videos about Gordon's Martial Arts business in Ocoee. Dugas has also posted that he is going to fight Gordon to take his Martial Art title away. [BSMA is not “run by Don Roley”. Roley is an admin on the group page, nothing more. Questioning the validity of Gordon's claims is not defamatory. I don't recall Dr. Dugas ever claiming he was going to take Gordon's “martial art title” away, or what that even means. Perhaps the officer misinterpreted, or perhaps Gordon actually said something this stupid. It's not like this would be unusual.] “Officers completed a report on 11/6, about Dugas coming to Gordon's business in an attempt to intimidate him. Dugas videotpe the whole meeting without Gordon's permission and then posted it on the “Bullshit Martial Arts” grouppage. [An “attempt to intimidate”? Again, is this the officer's misinterpretation, or did Gordon actually say something that stupid?] “On 11/23/2020 Dugas believes Gordon's business partner, Steven Hatfield called Dugas's mother and father and threatened them. I did speak to Steven Hatfield over the phone, he stated he doesn't know Dugas's family's number, and would never call them since they just filed a report to sue Dugas for defamation. [Do I have any evidence that Steven Hatfield, or one of his cronies, called Dr. Dugas' parents and frightened them? No. Do I believe it's possible that he did this, or that one of his cronies did this? Yes. It's only speculation on my part, but if Gordon and/or Hatfield are willing to lie to the police on an official report, it makes me wonder what else they might be capable of doing, especially if they think they're protected somehow. Gordon especially has been known to harass others when it's suited him in the past. His unstable behavior could escalate. We've seen it happen many times with others.] “Dugas called Don Roley and told him about the phone call that Hatfield apparently made to his family. Soon after talking to Dugas, Roley posted a message on the “Bullshit Martial Arts” which states: “Underlying this is how much Steven Hatfield uses Bret Gordon as his bitch. Think about It, Hatfield is in another state when he pulls this type of thing. But he knows that Dale can show up to where Bret teaches and we known where Bret lives. So, he is both depending on Dale not being a monster after his family was threatened and/or he doesn’t care if Bret pats the price for his actions. For that matter, Hatfield brought family into this. His family is obviously not close to Dale, but Bret has to look at his sister and realize that it is only Dale’s restraint that make sure the he won’t have to someday have to identify the body. All of us know Dale won’ t do that, despite what happened to his parents, Dale if you were Bret Gordon, part of you would always wonder if when he looks at his sister if it would be the last time he saw her alive. You just can’t help it in that situation, no matter how the logical part of your brain knows that it would never happen. And Steven Hatfield just doesn’t care if he goes through that fear. Hell, for all we know Hatfield might be considering doing something horrible to Bret Gordon’ s sister Just so he could try to blame us for it. And Bret Gordon has to live with that”. [Was posting this statement unwise? Yes. Bret Gordon will seize upon any opportunity to pervert anything someone says, no matter how innocuous, no matter how obviously non-threatening it should seem, just to make himself look like the victim. His ability to pervert the truth is on par with Bryce Dallas'. And no, that's not a compliment.] “I spoke to Don Roley over the phone about the post. Roley said Dugas told him, Hatfield called Dugas's family, so he made that post. Roley said he did not threaten Gordon's sister with real harm. I told Roley that he was acting like a child and should stop posting “backhanded” threats toward Gordon and his sister. “I then spoke to Dale Duagas, Dugas said he did not tell Roley to make any post directed to Gordon and his sister. Dugas said he doesn't know where Gordon lives. He said Gordon also post mean, and rude things about him, so he would post back. I also told him he needed to grow up and stop acting like a child. I told him Gordon does not want him back at his business again, and if he did show up he would be trespassed. Dugas asked me to tell Gordon not to post mean, or rude things about him. I informed Dugas that Gordon was told to not call or post on their page. He said he will no longer post about Gordon. “Gordon gave me a thumb drive of the post from 11/23 and other video Dugas has posted on his “Bullshit Martial Arts” Page. “I don’t have probable cause for cyber threats or stalking at this time. The thumb drive will be placed into evidence. “I attached a copy of Gordon court filing and a signed paperwork that Dugas dropped off at his business on 11/5/2020. “I have no further information to report.” [This particular officer's tenuous command of the English language, and her unprofessional remarks aside, this report amounted to nothing more than Gordon trying to lay a stronger foundation for the suit he and Hatfield had filed that day. That foundation, however, is laid upon sand. Gordon perjured himself and, since he speaks for Hatfield, he has as well perjured Hatfield by proxy. This does not bode well for your case, boys. Which is probably why you waited until February 4th to serve Dr. Dugas with a summons, isn't it?] Bottom Line: Bret Gordon and Steven Hatfield are frauds. They regularly alter the stories they tell about themselves because they are liars. Their constant lying, obfuscation and concealment have thoroughly destroyed their own credibility. Nothing they claim should be believed. Any martial artist who values their own integrity, who doesn't want their own reputation tarnished by association with these frauds, should distance themselves from these two immediately. Speaking of associates, if any of them want to discuss their association with frauds Steven Hatfield and Bret Gordon, they can email either myself or Gerald Greysmith (neither of which are Dr. Dale Dugas) anytime. How about it, guys? They haven't been “attacked by internet trolls”. Their dubious claims were questioned, and they attacked their critics. They have brought about their downfall with their own words and actions. They have no business being involved in martial arts.
Maybe they can go build some solar panels and contribute something useful to society for a change. That's my opinion, anyway. Bret Gordon and Steven Hatfield have gone to great lengths to construct a network of fraud and deceit for over a decade. They have created a number of shell organizations and sold worthless memberships and certifications. They have lied about their own experience and qualifications in several different styles of martial arts. And they have lied about having received authority for one of their arts, American Jidokwan (americanjidokwan.com), from a fictional Japanese master allegedly named Hasaka Yutashi which, according to input we have received from people who actually speak the language, is not a real Japanese name. One might wonder why so much effort is being put into the construction of such an elaborate, fraudulent scheme. One might wonder why they haven't just put in the effort to be legitimate martial artists, thus eliminating the necessity of lying to everyone every day. One could only speculate that they wanted the immediate gratification of proclaiming themselves authorities, without experiencing the effort that is necessary to actually become an authority. Their latest effort to continue the charade has been to file suit against Dr. Dale Dugas, alleging defamation of their persons and monetary damages to their businesses. In his video testimony, Steven Hatfield stated: “. . . with the help of Martin Pedata, this is something that has been, we've been working on for awhile.” This suit was filed on November 25, 2020. Gordon and Hatfield had the Summons, dated January 21, 2021, yet they waited a little more than 2 weeks to have Dr. Dugas served. Why? What was the delay? If they've got such a good case, and they've retained an attorney, and they've filed suit, why not get this ball rolling right away so they can silence their detractors and collect some cash? At any rate, the Summons has been served, and now we wait to see other events unfold. On 11.06.2020 at 12:47:12PM Eastern time, Ocoee, Florida police officer Omar Valle, ID#1721, paid a visit to Richard Hackworth's American Dragon Martial Arts located at 209 Capitol Court in response to a complaint from Bret Gordon. The alleged incident Bret Gordon wanted to complain about occurred the previous day, 11.05.20 at approximately 6:00PM. According to the official report, #OCPD20OFF004304 (05), officer Valle met with Bret Gordon, who related the information contained in the report, the text of which reads: “On 11/06/2020 at approximately 11:40 hours, I, Ofc. Omar Valle responded to 290 Capitol Court in reference to a harassment. “Prior to my arrival, Winter Garden Dispatch advised that the complainant wanted to file a report against males that came to his business and started to record him without his consent. Complainant also advised that these subjects posted their conversation from the night prior on social media. The complainant informed that they have been harassing him for approximately a year now. "Upon my arrival, I met with the complainant, identified via FL Drivers License as Bret Michael Gordon. Bret advised that a subject, named Dale Dugas, came to his business in a threatening manner with 2 other unnamed subjects last night. Bret advised he invited Dale to show up to his business to talk about their personal issues on 11/12/2020, but Dale decided to show up unannounced on 11/05/2020 instead. Bret informed that Dale has a facebook group called “Bullshit Martial Arts” where he dedicated a substantial amount of time uploading videos and facebook posts talking about Bret's business. Bret advised that when Dale came in with his friends, he felt threatened and intimidated because the unknown 2 males were bigger. “Bret advised that he would like to fill out a police report and press charges for harassment. Bret provided me with numerous videos where Dale posted on his own facebook page (Bullshit Martial Arts) in regards to the credibility of Bret's certificates. Bret and Dale exchanged numerous public posts on facebook in passive aggressive demeanor towards each other and the differences they share. Bret then states online “despite you bailing out twice after demanding I name a time and place for us to step on the mat, I'm going to give you a third opportunity to show what a coward you truly are. Thursday, November 12th at 7:30PM, you are invited to my school. I look forward to this opportunity for us to settle our differences.” “On Saturday at 9:06PM Bret writes in facebook messenger: “The rules of our match will be simple. One on one, unarmed. To protect each other legally, we need to be able to claim it is sparring. Therefore, mma gloves will be worn by both of us. That's it. Those are my terms.” “Approximately 2 days ago (11/04/2020) Bret posted on facebook: “Dale Dougas AP, On the 12th, if you show up and things get physical, and I win, I want everything you've ever posted about me taken down. All 33 videos (and counting), and all of your derogatory comments. If you win, I will do the same. Agreed?” “Upon researching the facebook group, I discovered that Bret made a facebook post after the 11/05/2020 incident. After Dale and his friends showed up, Bret went on facebook and said “It should also be clear how little I am bothered by standing there alone in front of Dale two of his friends, even with how hostile he has been online.” On a separate video, where Bret claimed to feel intimidated, I heard Bret saying to Dale and his friends “You are always welcome here” and he never told them to stop recording. “On facebook, Dale took a screeenshot where he is blatantly videotaping the entire incident. After reviewing these facts, I determined that Bret is not intimidated because he continued to invite and contact Dale despite his claims of Dale being hostile. Based on my investigation, this does not meet the criteria for F.S.S784.048 for below since both Bret and Dale exchanged passive aggressive comments to each other. “Both Bret and Dale agreed to meet up and at the time of the incident (11/05/20) Dale came in to bring his waiver (which was provided by Bret) to attend class on November 12th. “Bret, though he stated to Ocoee Police Department he is harassed and threatened by Dale, states multiple times on public posts calling out Dale and stating he is not scared. “Credible threat” means a threat made with the intent to cause the person who is the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety. The threat must be against the life of, or a threat to cause bodily injury to, a person. “Harass” means to engage in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress in such person and serves no legitimate purpose “This report is for informational purposes only. “I have an agency issued body camera that was on and activated during this investigation.” That apparently not being enough, another officer had to respond to Bret's butthurt bleating on November 24, 2020, the same day the suit was filed. On 11.24.2020 at approximately 3:00PM Eastern time, Ocoee, Florida police officer Trista Blake, ID#1163, paid a visit to Trio Martial Arts located at 209 Capitol Court in response to a complaint of online threats from Bret Gordon. The alleged incident Bret Gordon wanted to complain about occurred the previous day, 11.05.20 at approximately 6:00PM.
According to the narrative supplement to the official report, #OCPD20OFF004304 (05), officer Blake met with Bret Gordon, who related the information contained in the report, the text of which reads: "Information only. “On November 24, 2020, at approximately 1500 hours, I responded to 209 Capitol Court ( TrioMartialArts) in reference to online [threats]. “On arrival, I spoke to the victim, identified as Bret M. Gordon, he stated the following: “since last year, a facebook group called “Bullshit Martial Arts”, which is run by Don Roley out of Colorado has been posting defamatory statements about his business. One member in the group, name Dale Dugas has been posting videos about Gordon's Martial Arts business in Ocoee. Dugas has also posted that he is going to fight Gordon to take his Martial Art title away. “Officers completed a report on 11/6, about Dugas coming to Gordon's business in an attempt to intimidate him. Dugas videotaped the whole meeting without Gordon's permission and then posted it on the “Bullshit Martial Arts” grouppage. “On 11/23/2020 Dugas believes Gordon's business partner, Steven Hatfield called Dugas's mother and father and threatened them. I did speak to Steven Hatfield over the phone, he stated he doesn't know Dugas's family's number, and would never call them since they just filed a report to sue Dugas for defamation. “Dugas called Don Roley and told him about the phone call that Hatfield apparently made to his family. Soon after talking to Dugas, Roley posted a message on the “Bullshit Martial Arts” which states: “Underlying this is how much Steven Hatfield uses Bret Gordon as his bitch. Think about It, Hatfield is in another state when he pulls this type of thing. But he knows that Dale can show up to where Bret teaches and we known where Bret lives. So, he is both depending on Dale not being a monster after his family was threatened and/or he doesn’t care if Bret pats the price for his actions. For that matter, Hatfield brought family into this. His family is obviously not close to Dale, but Bret has to look at his sister and realize that it is only Dale’s restraint that make sure the he won’t have to someday have to identify the body. All of us know Dale won’ t do that, despite what happened to his parents, Dale if you were Bret Gordon, part of you would always wonder if when he looks at his sister if it would be the last time he saw her alive. You just can’t help it in that situation, no matter how the logical part of your brain knows that it would never happen. And Steven Hatfield just doesn’t care if he goes through that fear. Hell, for all we know Hatfield might be considering doing something horrible to Bret Gordon’ s sister Just so he could try to blame us for it. And Bret Gordon has to live with that”. “I spoke to Don Roley over the phone about the post. Roley said Dugas told him, Hatfield called Dugas's family, so he made that post. Roley said he did not threaten Gordon's sister with real harm. I told Roley that he was acting like a child and should stop posting “backhanded” threats toward Gordon and his sister. “I then spoke to Dale Duagas, Dugas said he did not tell Roley to make any post directed to Gordon and his sister. Dugas said he doesn't know where Gordon lives. He said Gordon also post mean, and rude things about him, so he would post back. I also tole him he needed to grow up and stop acting like a child. I told him Gordon does not want him back at his business again, and if he did show up he would be trespassed. Dugas asked me to tell Gordon not to post mean, or rude things about him. I informed Dugas that Gordon was told to not call or post on their page. He said he will no longer post about Gordon. “Gordon gave me a thumb drive of the post from 11/23 and other video Dugas has posted on his “BullshitMartial Arts” Page. “I don’t have probable cause for cyber threats or stalking at this time. The thumb drive will be placed into evidence. “I attached a copy of Gordon court filing and a signed paperwork that Dugas dropped off at his business on 11/5/2020. “I have no further information to report.” Here we have evidence of Bret Gordon making not one, but two false police reports which, according to Florida statute, is a misdemeanor. The relevant part of the statute reads: 837.05 False reports to law enforcement authorities. (1)(a) . . . a person who knowingly gives false information to a law enforcement officer concerning the alleged commission of any crime, commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.775.082 or s.775.083. In Part Two, opinion and commentary. Why are attorneys so despised? In part, because of actions like this. Recently, a complaint against attorney Martin Pedata, Florida bar #745790, was filed by Dr. Dale Dugas with the Florida Bar Association. The nature of the complaint was in regard to Martin Pedata's unethical actions as representative for the plaintiffs in the case of Gordon and Hatfield v Dugas. https://www.facebook.com/martin.pedata On November 24, 2010, Bret Gordon and Steven Hatfield, represented by attorney Martin Pedata, filed suit against Dr. Dale Dugas, alleging defamation against themselves and their businesses. According to Steven Hatfield, Martin Pedata advised him to post a video on social media to announce and discuss the suit. This was also posted on a blog run by Bret Gordon. The relevant part of the transcript, in which Hatfield states that Pedata had recommended that he post a video, reads: “It's 2020-CA-001851, and the Complaint was actually provided and written by our attorney, who is Martin Pedata, and he has provided us with more than enough help to get everything taken care of that needs to be taken care of and addressed. “I normally don't even speak out on this crap, but my attorney did suggest that I make a video and kind of let everybody know what's going on . . . “. . . I just wanted to be clear that, y'know, luckily, with the help of Martin Pedata, this is something that has been, we've been working on for awhile.” You can read the entire transcript here. According to the Florida Bar Association's website, the General Principles of their Guidelines for Professional Conduct state that an attorney should (in relevant part): 1) strive to uphold the honor and dignity of the profession. 2) be courteous and civil in all professional dealings with other persons. Whether orally or in writing, lawyers should avoid vulgar language, disparaging personal remarks, or acrimony toward other counsel, parties, or witnesses. [acrimony meaning bitterness or sharpness of manner, speech, temper, etc. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/acrimony] In brief, attorneys are supposed to conduct themselves in a dignified and professional manner, and refrain from making unprofessional and disparaging remarks, at least while representing their clients. Martin Pedata seems to have skipped over this section. On Steven Hatfield and Bret Gordon's website, Gordon wrote the previously referenced blog entry featuring the video posted by Steven Hatfield, which Martin Pedata responded to by posting a comment. [Note that comments must be approved by Bret Gordon in order to appear on the blog.] The part of the comment relevant to Dr. Dugas reads: “Martin 11/25/2020 12:51:15 pm “Dale Dugas is a coward. Him showing up to your school unannounced with bodyguards was a ploy to avoid fighting. He knew by doing that he would screw up the set upon time to spar. All he had to do was wait a few more days and the fight would have happened.” I don't know how you might interpret this, but referring to someone as “a coward” on a publicly available forum, someone who is the opposing party to the clients you are representing in a suit, doesn't seem to be adhering very well to the Professional Guidelines set forth by the Florida Bar Association. Nor did it seem very ethical or professional to Dr. Dugas, and the complaint was filed for this reason. This is not the only ethically questionable behavior that Martin Pedata has seen fit to indulge. Looking into Steven Hatfield and Bret Gordon's numerous websites and organizations reveals a relationship that goes far beyond an average client-attorney association. Martin Pedata is featured as the “Director of Operations” for Hatfield and Gordon's USAMA organization. http://www.join-usama.com/martin-pedata.html
Among the many, many, many, many, MANY martial arts that Hatfield and Gordon claim to have mastered well enough to become not only instructors, but high-ranking instructors at that, neither one has ever mentioned having any proficiency whatsoever in Krav Maga. This begs the question – If you have no experience in a specific martial art, certainly not the level necessary to competently evaluate anyone's proficiency, how could you possibly recognize someone's rank in said art, issue them a certificate stating as much, and include them in your organization? Sounds pretty dishonest, almost like something a fraud would do, doesn't it? And, if you're an attorney (or anyone else for that matter), why would you accept, or even seek out, rank recognition from someone who has a history of making dubious claims about their own background, who can't honestly evaluate your skill or proficiency, someone with no experience in your art, someone whose “rank recognition” holds no authority whatsoever? Sounds pretty dishonest, almost like something a fraud would do, doesn't it? But then, we are talking about an attorney, aren't we? It would seem that Pedata has a vested fiduciary, and even a personal interest in the favorable outcome of this case, would it not? Wouldn't an ethical, moral attorney (I know, I know!) recuse himself from involvement due to the conflict of interest? This doesn't seem like the type of behavior someone who touts himself as a “Follower of Christ, Pastor”, should engage in, does it? I wonder what the Bible has to say about lying?
Proverbs 19:5 - A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall not escape. Proverbs 19:9 - A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall perish. Exodus 20:16 - Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Ephesians 4:25 - Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. In light of Martin Pedata's past conduct, conduct that could be considered questionable, unethical, immoral and possibly even criminal, what was the result of the complaint filed against him by Dr. Dale Dugas? Predictably, they circled the wagons to defend their scumrade. On December 15, 2020, the Florida Bar Association responded to Dr. Dugas after conducting their own review of the complaint. Their conclusion was: “Your inquiry concerning [Martin Pedata] has been referred to me for my review. “Your complaint raises issues which are civil in nature and must be addressed to the appropriate tribunal, not the Bar. “After careful consideration, I conclude that the matters referenced in your inquiry do not constitute violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct, and accordingly, your inquiry does not fall within the purview of the grievance system framework. Consequently, I have closed our record in this matter effective December 14, 2020. Please be advised that my action does not preclude you from consulting with private counsel, nor does it preclude you from exercising any legal remedy which may be available to you. “Pursuant to the Bar's records retention schedule, the computer record and file will be disposed of one year from the date of closing.” Sincerely William W. Wilhelm Attorney Consumer Assistance Program ACAP Hotline 866-352-0707” To summarize – scumbag attorneys (Triple Dub in particular) decided not to reprimand another scumbag attorney for violation of their Professional Guidelines because their Professional Guidelines don't apply to scumbag attorneys if other scumbag attorneys don't want them to. (That's my interpretation, anyway.) Pursuant to Under the Gi – with H.K.'s records retention schedule, this information will remain available to the public indefinitely. On Thursday, February 4, 2021, Steven Hatfield, Bret Gordon and Martin Pedata proved the depths of their stupidity by providing evidence in the form of public record. A Summons was served upon Dr. Dale Dugas at his clinic. Next will probably come the Answer and Counterclaim as Dr. Dugas defends himself from the asinine allegations of defamation and civil conspiracy.
More details as they become available. On November 24, 2020, Steven Hatfield and Bret Gordon filed suit against Dr. Dale Dugas alleging, among other things, defamation by Dugas against their persons and businesses. Bret Gordon included a video made by Steven Hatfield regarding the case in a blog entry. The transcript of that video is presented here in its entirety and without comment.
For now. Good morning, facebook. Steve Hatfield here, Columbus, Ohio. I want to touch base on a few things. Obviously I don't do a lot of live videos. I don't jump on here and do too much in that area, but some of you have been following the situation, some haven't. Me and my student Bret Gordon have been under fire by a group of trolls, and they have decided that they are just going to continue to mess with us. This has been going on for about a year now. Things have just obviously gotten worse since people were bored out of their mind, they have nothing else to do. This whole Covid situation has definitely pushed people over the edge. In a nutshell, just to kind of break some of this stuff down, this is what's going on. These trolls have been harassing me and my student, running their mouth, making claims that aren't necessarily true, claiming that we are not who we say we are. They are trying to cause us problems within our business. They have contacted our students. They have reached out to some of our friends. They have spent countless, countless hours. These are grown men, grown men, that have just been absolutely bored out of their minds. I believe they wrote 41, maybe 42, articles or blogs attacking me and my student. They have gone as far as, um, they have just pushed some serious limits, just, some limits that I am really surprised and also impressed with. I mean, they have spent days, and hours and months just trying to debunk us, or whatever it may be. They went as far as contacting my instructor. They went as far as contacting Okinawa, trying to find out if I have my ranks in goju. They have went as far as causing me problems with some, just some friends, because friends have now started to question me, which I thought was kind of strange. I've learned a lot about people in general, and kinda how this whole thing goes. They're supposed to be martial artists, these guys are supposed martial artists themselves. They are, um, they don't even live in our area. So, I'm in Columbus, Ohio, one guy's in Colorado, the other guy is in Florida, another guy is in Florida, and then the rest of them are all under aliases, because they obviously don't want to be confronted in any capacity. They use fake names. They email family, they email friends. They've gone as far as taking pictures of my mother. They've gone as far as getting pictures of my brother, and putting them in articles and in blogs, attacking my step-father because of his past history, and he's no longer living. My step-father's dead, he died in 2009. They have went as far as, oh, man, I mean, to me it's just absolutely insane as far as they've went to try to attack us as martial artists. One guy is a supposed kung fu guy, another guy is a supposed Bujinkan ninjutsu guy, another guy is a supposed BJJ guy. I'm not really sure, to be honest I don't really pay much attention to them, I looked into them a little bit. But, apparently they are the martial arts police. They believe that me and my student don't deserve to have schools and that we don't deserve to continue doing what we do, and those of you who have met me, those of you who have worked out with me, those of you who have been a part of what we do, you know how we function, you know that every single rank is earned, nothing is ever given away, you are well aware of how this process works. So, they're claiming that we're going around giving out ranks. They're claiming that we are being disrespectful to other people. They're claiming that we're not informing our students of the way that we function and how we handle things. I cannot begin to tell you the amount of crap that we have been through, for an entire year, from people we have never met, people we've never studied with, people that know nothing about us. They just decided that we were going to be the target of the day for whatever reason. But, I am happy to say that, after the current situation where one gentleman, I'm not going to say his name, um, at this point in time, which I will explain here in just a minute. I'll give his name anyway in a minute, but, um, one gentleman wanted to fight me and my student. We are not fighters. We are not sport fighters. We're not MMA guys, that's not what we do. The guy wanted to fight us. We both accepted the fight, quote unquote challenge. He didn't want anything to do with it, backed down from it, never stepped up. Later on, as time went on, my student Bret issued another challenge. He accepted the challenge. He then turns around and emails the waiver back to my student. Just, uh, approximately two days later, he drives about two hours to Bret's school with two other people to go ahead and introduce himself, and to hand-deliver the waiver, also. I don't know about you, but normally if you're going to drive about an hour-and-a-half to two hours to go and hand-deliver something that you've already emailed, you might as well just go ahead and get it over with. You might as well step on the mat, step on the floor, step outside, whatever it is you gotta do, but at that time, he didn't. He was there just as a good show of faith, he claims. Realistically, I mean, I don't know why he was there, I'm just saying that you show up after driving an hour-and-a-half to two hours you might as well just go ahead and get it over. But, instead, he said he wanted to wait, and then meet Bret on the twelfth to go ahead and fight. Keeping in mind, prior to that month, he was making threats, which we have video proof of, some pretty nasty threats about what he was going to do to me, and what he was going to do to my student, he was going to submit us and do all of these different things. The truth is that nobody really needs to fight. I mean, if he really wanted to fight, he would have dealt with me. He's been offered to come to Columbus, Ohio numerous times. I've offered to pay for his trip one time, he chose not to. There's a gentleman here in Hillier, Ohio, that was running his mouth, talking all this riffraff, and he never wanted to address it either. He was given an opportunity to handle it then. I offered to pay for his trip because he said that he didn't [indecipherable], so I offered to pay him twenty bucks for gas. I offered to meet him. This guy in Hillier just didn't want nothing to do with it. He continued to run his mouth, continued to talk crap, so I finally addressed it in the manner that I needed to address it in. The situation is dealt with, done and over with, and I haven't heard anything from him. It may or may not happen again, he may start running his mouth, I don't know. But, um, so Dale Dugas is the guy in Florida. There's another gentleman named Barron Shepherd that's kind of spouted off a little bit, not too much, and then there's Don Roley in Colorado. They hide under aliases, they like to use fake names, they like to write under fake names, and what they have a tendency of doing is just consistently attacking people for absolutely no reason. They literally have attacked some of the greatest martial artists to ever walk this earth. They have disrespected some of the greatest martial artists to ever walk this earth. Now, I'm little, I'm small, not any other direction, like, I'm a small school. We have approximately 32, 35 students right now. Y'know, I'm not a big-time martial artists, I don't have a hundred students, I don't have fifty schools. Little Steven here in Columbus getting picked on by a bunch of people, some internet bullies and some trolls that don't really want to do nothing. It's kind of strange, it's interesting, it's petty. Y'know these are forty and fifty year old grown men, supposedly, with nothing better to do. Sadly enough it seems that their life is, uh, has been struggling for them, they've been struggling in their lives so they want to mess with people. They've caused some serious issues. They've affected some business issues. Just to be clear, I haven't lost any students due to their ignorance. I've lost friends, because, well at that point I guess people don't know how to read between the lines. But that's okay. Bret, as far as I know, he hasn't lost any students. Everybody's still fully supportive of him. It's crazy, the world that we live in, y'know. We're supposed to be martial artists. We're supposed to be respectful, have dignity, honor, integrity, all this other crazy stuff that we're supposed to have. They went as far as contacting one of Bret's students who is married, tried to contact her husband, and tried to get her in trouble. They went as far as contacting local police departments to see if I worked for any of those police departments because I was involved in public safety. They have gone as far as creating fake facebook pages, stealing our actual images, our logos, and rebuilding them. They have went as far as making claims that are just horrendous. That truly, I just don't understand why people do this kind of stuff. But, I am happy to announce, and happy to bring it up that, uh, that we have officially filed a lawsuit. The lawsuit is, uh, there's an actual case number, there's a case number that I will give out to you guys here in a minute. The lawsuit has actually been issued, and not only that, ironically, the police officer that came to take the report for Bret Gordon contacted Don Roley and contacted Dale Dugas. And so, Don Roley called back and spoke to the police officer. Apparently, they had some words, but the officer informed him that he is a suspect in a crime, and they continued to have their conversation. Some of the things that he had said, he had instantly removed off of his facebook page after the conversation with the officer. As far as I know, Mr. Dale Dugas has not contacted the police officer back. I don't know if he has or he hasn't, but during that time frame, he never called back. So, um, in that particular situation, I find it interesting. Um, he has gone as far as, Mr. Dugas has gone as far as contacting me specifically, um, and then making false claims after that. It's just kind of crazy, which, we again have screenshots. We have everything documented, every single thing that they have been doing. It's just crazy to me. The case number for that, for the lawsuit is actually for Dale Dugas, Don Roley, Gerald Greysmith and whoever else that they have within their aliases, um, they're all in the process of being sued. It's 2020-CA-001851, and the Complaint was actually provided and written by our attorney, who is Martin Pedata, and he has provided us with more than enough help to get everything taken care of that needs to be taken care of and addressed. Um, I don't know if this will show correctly or not, but I'm going to try to get it to show a little bit. Uh, let's see here if I can get that to pop up a little bit. (Turns camera toward computer screen.) It might not show up, let's see. Mmmm. Might not focus, but there's the Complaint that was filed. It's kind of, uh, not super-great in all this craziness, but the Complaint was filed with the county of Florida, and we're just waiting for an actual court date and a court time for that to be addressed, and it's against Dale Dugas a/k/a Gerald Greysmith a/k/a/ GG and a/k/a The Twelve. It's sad that we live in a world like this, the world where people are petty, people are childish and they get absolutely bored, and they feel the need to attack other people. Y'know, I come up from a time when, y'know, if you had a problem with somebody you came to see them. You spoke to them personally, you dealt with them directly. But, instead, because of the internet, we get to sit behind it, and press buttons, and hide from people, and talk crap and never really have any consequences. Y'know, to be clear, again I'm not this crazy fighter, I'm not a guy walking around here claiming to be a great grandmaster or anything of that nature. Anybody that's ever studied with me, anybody that's ever been in my school, anybody that's ever worked out with me, anybody that's ever been a part of my martial arts background, anybody that just knows me personally knows what kind of person I am. Know that I'll give my shirt off my back to you. They know that I will have your back one hundred percent. People know who I am. They know that I don't start fights. They know that I don't get into all that craziness, like that's not the kind of thing that I do. That's not what I teach my students, and any of my students watching this, any of my past students that are watching this, anybody that runs across this, [if ] that person knows me, feel free to make a comment, feel free to say whatever you want, y'know. You don't need to hold back. When there's issues, I address them. I see Miss Emma Norwood is on here watching this as well. Y'know, I helped raise two of her grandchildren, they're both black belts of mine, one of 'em is a green belt of mine, her granddaughter is a brown belt of mine. Y'know, she has seen a lot of things. She has seen a lot of things. And, she's seen how I address situations. She's called me and asked me for help in some situations, and I've shown up, I've had her back, I've done all those type of things. Her grandchildren can speak up. Again, anyone who's been around me that knows, that knows the kind of person I am. So, the crap that's going on, the kind of people that are running their mouths and saying things, realistically y'know, those that know me know how I am. And, for those of you that want to question me or not believe me or whatever, that's fine. It's not that big of a deal, because I'm not here to impress anybody, I'm not here to be everybody's friend. My dojo, we opened our dojo, and I've had two dojos, main, that we've run right here in Columbus, and I opened up a school prior, in 2002/2003 with a gentleman name Kenjiro Wayne in Gahan, Ohio, and then we went from that school to my main school which I opened here in Columbus myself. It was June 4th, June 5th, 2004 I believe it was, and we've been running ever since. Our dojo is just built on trying to have a core family, y'know. My school is for people that don't have anything. It doesn't matter what you have. If you don't have a mother, a father, a sister, a cousin, a friend, y'know. Whatever it is you need, that's what we're there for. I'm in the middle of the 'hood. I'm in the middle of the ghetto. My dojo is in the middle of the ghetto. I'm not there to make a bunch of money. If I was trying to make a bunch of money I'd be somewhere in the suburbs, but I'm not. I have students that know, y'know, if they can't pay their bill, I do my best to help 'em out. Like, I don't kick my students out if they can't afford their tuition for the month, or if they're struggling with something, y'know. I can honestly say that our school has been very supportive of everybody. We try to help everybody out the best we can. It's not just me, my students are the same way. I feel like, at the end of the day, y'know, people that know me, know me. And again, this is not something I normally do. I don't do the whole facebook live thing, this is kind of weird to me. I normally don't even speak out on this crap, but my attorney did suggest that I make a video and kind of let everybody know what's going on, because, y'know, I don't get on here and run my mouth. This stuff has been going on for a year, and you don't hear that much about it from me. Bret, that's a whole 'nother story. Bret will address things however he wants to address them, and I'm not gonna tell him that he can't do it. He's gotta address things the way he's gotta address 'em. He's under attack as well. But, I will continue to keep everybody updated as time goes on with this crazy mess. It'll be awhile before we actually see a courtroom, I'm sure. I'm guessing sometime after the holidays, so I'll have to make a trip to Florida and deal with it. I just find it odd that these guys are going as far as attacking me and saying that my blue belt is fake. I'm a blue belt in BJJ under Carlos Machado's organization. They're saying that, y'know, I earned my blue belt online, which isn't true. They're demanding that I provide them with every single certificate that I have. This group . . . This all started because they want me to prove who I am. They have demanded that I show every single certificate, every single document. Exact words, so that their experts can verify who I am, so their experts can verify all my certifications. And, once they verify them, they will determine whether they are fake or legitimate. They have went as far as saying that, y'know, and I'm just going backwards a little bit, they have went as far as saying that I'm not actually a ranked black belt in Okinawa in Meibukan goju, which isn't true. They claim that I am – that I was a temporary rank in Meibukan goju, again, which isn't true. Which, one of my good friends, Dan sensei is on here now watching too, he is from Meibukan. He was there during my exam. We even provided a letter from the, one of the main representatives, from the gentleman who actually manages all the way the Meibukan's ranked internationally for us. We provided a letter directly from Meibukan, showing that I am actually a licensed black belt. They, y'know, I provided my blue belt, y'know, just little things here and there. And there are some things that I will not provide. If you wanna see them, if someone wants to see them, they can come to my dojo, they can come workout with me. I have no problem showing anybody anything, which, truth is that paper doesn't mean anything. Y'know, they have made claims that I am using my certifications, and that Bret was using his certifications to attract students. I have never once had a student walk into my school, or call my school and ask me “What style do you teach?”, “Who were your instructors?”, “Who are you licensed through?”. They've never asked me those questions. When a student walks in my dojo, it's usually because they are either a) being brought in by their parents, or somebody is looking to get fit, they wanna feel better, they wanna be healthy, they wanna learn self-defense. Most people, your average individual, doesn't know the difference between karate, tae kwon do, kung fu, ah, they just don't know the difference. And if you tell them that you teach karate, they go “Oh, karate. Fine.”. And then they, sometimes, most of the time, mix up karate, tae kwon do. What they don't realize is that although, each martial art kinda comes from the same area to a certain extent, but each karate system is different. There is goju ryu, there's wado ryu, there's uechi ryu, there's all of these different styles. You have shotokan, you have isshin ryu, you have the tae kwon do arts, you have multiple different kwans. You have all these different things, and, so your average person doesn't know that. Y'know, somebody might ask you “Hey, do you teach kung fu?”. That's a possibility. Somebody may say “Hey, do you teach karate or kickboxing?”, and now with the modern push of MMA, people do ask “Do you offer MMA?”, “Do you offer this, do you offer that?”, in those areas. But, it's not common when it comes to karate, not anything of that capacity. Somebody might ask “Do you teach Brazilian Jiu Jitsu?”. People sometimes get Brazilian jiu jitsu mixed up with Japanese jujutsu. And there's different styles, different families of jiu jitsu. And so, this is where we tend to have these issues, where people are just confused. And, then you have these situations where people say, if you're not IBJJF, which is a Brazilian jiu jitsu organization, if you're not registered by them, then you're not valid. Or, if your instructor didn't come from this guy, then you're not valid. The point is that, at the end of the day, if you get on the mat, if you get on the floor, and you are capable of demonstrating your techniques and capable of doing what you have to do, what does it even matter? I mean, y'know, people are gonna say what they're gonna say. Nobody's always gonna agree with my rank. Nobody's always gonna agree with my position. Nobody's [always] gonna agree with what I do. It's not, I'm not looking for everybody's approval. These trolls, these people, these individuals that are running their mouth, truthfully I don't care. I don't give a damn about what they think. That's why I've kept my mouth shut so much. That's why I wouldn't say anything online. Because really, they're not gonna come to Columbus. They don't care. And even when I was in Florida, they didn't come to see me. Y'know, I'm not hunting for trouble. I'm not willing to get out here and argue and fight with these people. But, if you wanna come to me and have these aggressive conversations, that's fine, we can have them. But, I'm not gonna play this high school, middle school crap where we're online bantering back and forth to feed your ego and entertain your people. I don't really care. I'm a Carlos Machado blue belt. Fact. It doesn't matter whether anybody likes it. I really don't give a damn. Contact master Machado if you want, just like they did, and they're gonna tell you the same thing, that I'm a verified blue belt. You have a problem with my judo background? Who cares? It doesn't matter. You don't like my instructor, you don't like where I came from? Who cares? It's not for you, or anybody else, to determine my skillset, other than if you step on the floor with me. My judo background is my judo background. I do not teach sport, I have not taught sport for a very long time. We compete every now and again. We support certain people in their events, but that's it. I am not a large competitor. I am not a judo competitor. My rank, everything that I do in my school is geared toward self-defense. Ask any student, ask anybody that has ever met me, when I've ever preached anything about tournaments when my goal is self-defense. That's all I care about, is making sure that people have an opportunity to save their ass when things go south. That's what I care about. My BJJ is not tournament-related. I learned it because master Machado has certain things that they teach, and he teaches both. But, my BJJ is focused on being able to use it, or convert it into self-defense. That's what I need it for. Our judo is self-defense-related. That's just what we do. Our karate is self-defense-related. Wae kune do is predominantly a self-defense art. That's the way master West created it. He did do tournaments, he liked tournaments, but his focus was self-defense. Y'know, everybody trains for their own reasons and does whatever they do for their own reasons, and that's completely fine. You don't see me online attacking people for what they do, telling people that their techniques are wrong, emphasizing that one art is better than the other, I don't really care about none of that. None of that stuff bothers me, none of that stuff affects me. Y'know, I've spent my entire martial arts career helping other people. When they needed backing for their schools, when they needed supporting at certain events, when they needed rank as if when their instructors left them for any reason, if their instructors had passed away, if, y'know, they had a separation or a fallout with their organization or their school. Myself, and other black belts, and other people have made sure, within our group, that other people are taken care of. It doesn't matter if you agree with the licensing, certification or not. It's not for you to determine that. You can be unhappy all you want. You can say that it's wrong. That's fine, but we're still gonna keep doing what we're doing, and we've been doing it for a long time. We're gonna continue to help people. We're gonna continue to be here to help the students. We're gonna continue to be there at 3, 4, 5o'clock in the morning when something goes south and you need somebody to talk to. 'Cause that's what we do. Martial arts is more than puttin' on a piece of cloth, or wearing a uniform and going out here and beatin' on your chest that you're Billy badass. It's not about that. So, all of these trolls and all these other people that question our [unintelligible] and go, “Well, how can you be this age and have this belt?”, “How can you be this and have this?”. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's about what you are doing for that person, and for my skillset. It's just what it is. I'm not amazing, I'm not great, I'm good at what I do. No, I don't have a bunch of videos on youtube or facebook for everybody to critique and take a look at and give me all this crap about. I don't need to. The one thing that matters, is that my instructors, and my fellow black belts, and my fellow martial artists, those people that respect me, those people who have provided me with an opportunity to test underneath them and hold rank underneath them, that's what matters. That's what matters. If they don't want me to be part of their organization or their system, then they'll boot me out. They'll get rid of me. That's what they'll do. That's what they do. It is what it is, and I've never once, ever been kicked out of an organization. I've never once had my rank ever removed. Never. It's never happened. Now, obviously it's me talking. You don't have to believe it, but it's a fact, it's never happened. These trolls, these individuals that like to run their mouth and mess with people, they only mess with people because nobody ever stands up to them, nobody ever says anything. These guys, I'm not the only one they've been messing with, they've disrespected grandmaster Ronald Duncan, who's no longer living. They have disrespected a lot of the really, really deep, hardcore Daito ryu practitioners. They've disrespected, um, Moses Powell. They have disrespected, um, just, I mean there's a list of people. A list of them they've disrespected. These are well-known martial artists. They've disrespected Professor Lee. Anybody that does not meet their quote-unquote standards, and if you saw them, you saw their work and what they were capable of doing, you'd wonder how they even have the right to talk about some of these standards. Y'know, there are different organizations for different for different reasons, and there's a reason why each martial art has its own fractured section, y'know. It may have started here, and there was a beef, or an issue, or a disagreement, or whatever it may be, and so they splintered off and you end up with these different umbrellas of organizations and different things. And that doesn't make the martial artist less effective, it doesn't make him less valuable, it doesn't make him less honorable or anything. It doesn't mean any of those things. It just means that there was an issue, so they separated and went somewhere else. It just means that someone wasn't happy, they went somewhere else. It's just how it is. So, I'm gonna go ahead and end this video in just a second, but I just wanted to be clear that, y'know, luckily, with the help of Martin Pedata, this is something that has been, we've been working on for awhile. We had to make sure that we had everything lined up properly. So, the lawsuit is in effect, and hopefully we're able to get this stuff to end, and the only reason we're even going forward with this is, if you knew the amount of people they've attacked, the amount of people that are still living, the amount of people that have committed suicide actually, due to their amount of actions. And I'm sure that some of those people that committed suicide probably had some mental issues behind that, that's definitely possible. But, these individuals have been pushed over the edge because of these trolls, these specific trolls, to the point that they even talk about them. They've done some serious stuff. Um, y'know, and so, I felt like, y'know, Bret and I should talk about it. We agreed that we needed to move forward with it to, hopefully, minimize some of the amount of ignorance. Obviously, we're never gonna stop trolls, that's just never gonna happen as long as the internet's up. But, with this particular group, we'd like to, hopefully, minimize some of this crap, or hopefully stop it, really, would be the goal. Because people are suffering, there are other people out there that are being attacked. They just don't deserve to be attacked. I don't get it, it just doesn't make any sense to me. So, I will keep everybody posted. I will try to, I'm sure you guys didn't get a good view of the Complaint. I apologize again, I'm not super facebook live savvy, but I will more than likely post a picture at the bottom sometime today with a copy of the Complaint and the case number. Just in case these individuals pop up, which they, y'know, they're pretty good at it, saying that we didn't file, we didn't do this, we didn't do that. I just want to make sure the information's out there. So, I appreciate you tolerating me and my rant, my little bit of information. Feel free to comment if you'd like. Like I said, if you're a current student or prior student, if you're a past student or a current student, if you worked out with me or anything, there's, uh, if anything I've said is incorrect, y'know, please feel free to put it at the bottom. I'm not gonna delete the comment. It's not like that. Or if there's anything I've said that doesn't match up with your training as long as you were with me, please feel free to go ahead and make that comment as well. I'm always curious to know what people think, especially if they've been gone for awhile so they've had time to think about our training. Alright, I appreciate you guys. It's time. Have a wonderful, chilly, cold, rainy day here in Columbus, it looks like, and I'll catch you guys later. Take care. It is currently fashionable to tell any lie you please, to indulge in your most absurd fantasies, to boldly proclaim whatever your self-deluded reality might be, and the rest of society is supposed to enable your mental instability instead of directing you to the counseling you so obviously need. To this end, pathological liars and career criminals Steven Hatfield and Bret Gordon have spun many fanciful tales regarding one of their alleged Japanese martial arts masters, the one they refer to by the very non-Japanese name of Hasaka Yutashi. Some of us, however, still insist on being told the truth. We stubbornly refuse to accept your substitution of reality with one of your own creation. We demand evidence, not your ludicrous lies. On his blog, con man Bret Gordon claims: https://www.americanyoshinkan.com/history.html Hasaka Yutashi grew up in the martial arts, first learning Jujutsu from his father. Over time, he began development of what would later become American Yoshinkan Aiki Jujutsu (named in 1999), although he still remained an active student of the arts. He would go on to study Daito Ryu with Horikawa Kodo during the 1960s and '70s, as well as Yoshinkan Aikido briefly with Shioda Gozo. Shioda was a fellow student of Horikawa around 1977-78 after Horikawa visited his Tokyo dojo, and so Hasaka sensei had the opportunity to share information with him. However, although brief, Shioda would influence Hasaka sensei so greatly that his art became the inspiration for our naming. In the 1980s, after visiting previously numerous times, Hasaka sensei moved permanently to the United States and settled in California. There, he met a young Steven Hatfield and later his step-father, William Sirbaugh. Sirbaugh was an accomplished martial artist with a background in Taekwondo, Tang Soo Do and Hankido (for more information, click here), and Hasaka sensei quickly began exchanging information and training with him. As he got older, Steven Hatfield also began studying with them full-time. Even when Hatfield sensei moved to Ohio in 1999, he would continue traveling to California and bringing Hasaka sensei to Ohio to continue his training. When Hasaka sensei would return to visit Japan, Hatfield sensei would often accompany him. Upon Hasaka sensei's death, the art officially passed to Steven Hatfield having been designated as the successor a year prior. However, this was at a time when Hatfield sensei was primarily focused on his karate training under various teachers, and so he placed American Yoshinkan on the back burner until he met a student specifically seeking that type of training. Throughout this time, Hatfield sensei also cross-trained in Aikido under various teachers as well as Hankido (a Korean offshoot of Aikido) under his step-father, which would influence his personal expression of the art as he passed it on. In late 2011, Hatfield sensei met Bret Gordon through some mutual friends and the two began training in early 2012. Also having some prior experience in Aikido, Gordon sensei was actively interested in Japanese Jujutsu. Because of his other endeavors, Hatfield sensei set out to groom Gordon sensei to eventually take over the system. On January 12, 2020, Hatfield sensei officially stepped down as the headmaster of American Yoshinkan and appointed Bret Gordon as his inheritor. With this appointment, the hombu dojo was moved to Central Florida where it is currently located. http://www.join-usama.com/blog/what-is-a-martial-arts-fraud American Yoshinkan was founded by Hasaka Yutashi, who passed it down to Hatfield sensei in 2007. . . . Hatfield sensei gave me copies of his credentials from Hasaka sensei to verify the art was in fact his to pass down. . . . I have also amassed a collection of photographs of Hasaka sensei (some of which hang in my school), including pictures with Hatfield sensei to verify their relationship as well as him training in Japan in Daito Ryu Kodokai. I have even verified, independently of Hatfield sensei, what Hasaka sensei's standing was in Daito Ryu (under his birth name) prior to coming to the United States and teaching here. . . . there is no doubt in my mind regarding the legitimacy of Hasaka sensei's credentials prior to founding American Yoshinkan, or Hatfield sensei's position as his inheritor. . . . the question arises as to why I won't simply supply his birth name for others to verify as well, considering the only thing you will find when you search for "Hasaka Yutashi" is information provided by myself and Hatfield sensei. I do provide such information to my students . . . and I maintain that I will share this information with anyone who visits my school respectfully and wants to know the truth. There is nothing to hide. . . . Hasaka sensei was adamant about maintaining his privacy for reasons I am not at liberty to discuss, as the keeper of his legacy I must respect his wishes and feel that sharing information in-person while limiting what is publicly accessible is a fair compromise. http://www.join-usama.com/blog/manipulating-the-truth . . . I changed my belt three times throughout the duration of a single class to show off my colorful pieces of cloth, and that when questioned about Hasaka Yutashi (the founder of American Yoshinkan Aiki Jujutsu) I made excuses that I couldn't show the documents I claimed to have because I "don't keep them at the school." Of course, for anyone who has actually been in my school, they would clearly see the pictures of Hasaka sensei on the wall and the scrolls displayed in a shadow box, easily accessible for review . . . If they're publicly available - let's see them. end of ludicrous lies - This idiot (Gordon) has even gone so far as to claim that Yutashi actually has living relatives that he (Gordon) must protect by maintaining secrecy. In almost the same breath, he will then pivot and launch an attack against people who expose frauds of his ilk for writing anonymously in order to protect themselves and the people they love from mentally unstable, potentially dangerous wannabe martial arts “masters”. Makes sense. To clear up all the misinformation and disinformation spread around by compulsive liars Steven Hatfield and Bret Gordon, the absolute, unvarnished truth regarding Hasaka Yutashi is being presented here for the first time anywhere for the entire world to see. And so, without further adieu, Under the Gi presents to you: The Completely Unauthorized and Unasked-for, Honest to Gosh, Totally True, You Damned Well Better Believe It Or I'll be Very, Very Cross Biography of Hasaka Yutashi by HK Hayward (who is not Gerald J. Greysmith) #WeAreGerald #WeAreThe12 The story you are about to read is 100% true. It is equally as true as the stories that career criminals Bret Gordon and Steven Hatfield have told. That means it's really, really true. No, really. Just ask them. They will verify themselves that they have told the truth. Never mind the fact that no one else can verify their claims, never mind that they are the sole source for the information they provide, they say they are telling the truth about Hasaka Yutashi, so they are telling the truth. Nyah nyah. None of the names have been changed to protect the innocent, because no one involved in this story is innocent. Hasaka Yutashi changed his name a bunch of times, but that doesn't mean he is innocent. And Radford Davis, I mean, Ashida Kim changed his name a lot, too. But that's okay, because he is not innocent, either. Okay, then. Glad that's cleared up. Hasaka Yutashi, whose birth name was Silflay Hraka, was born sometime during the “Rice Riots”, a series of sometimes violent uprisings against the Japanese government over the skyrocketing price of rice, culminating in the resignation of Prime Minister Terauchi and his cabinet in September. His mother, name unknown, was a woman of low reputation, his father, name unknown, a petty street thug and scam artist. His mother died of an STD when he was 3-years-old. His father took him in and used him as a sympathy ploy in many quick-cash schemes. NOTE: These STDs are different from the STDs that Steven Hatfield and Bret Gordon have given each other. 1924-1934: (ages 6-16) Hasaka Yutashi, whose name had been changed to Denbo Atama, was taught what he was told was jujutsu, but was actually just dirty street-fighting, by his father. The aim was to make him a hatchet-man for his ambitious father, who was eager to climb the crimeworld ladder. 1934: (age 16) Hasaka Yutashi's, whose name had been changed to Onara Kokyu, father died in the Hakodate train station fire. Kokyu was left homeless and destitute due to his father's inability to manage money, spending it on alcohol and women of low character as quickly as he could steal it. He was taken in by other gangsters, who changed his name to Ushi Shita, and sent him to join the military to acquire the skills to become a more efficient enforcer. In reality, they just didn't want to care for him. And who could blame them? 1937-1945: Second Sino-Japanese War 1941-1945: World War II During his time in the military, he committed many atrocities, some of them even against the enemy. Wartime taught Hasaka Yutashi many things, among them that he truly enjoyed small-time racketeering, intimidation and knee-breaking to help sustain his criminal livelihood, activities which he continued to indulge in the military, but also that he was truly a coward at heart. He was desperately terrified, to the point of frequently wetting his bed, when it came to the possibility of being killed during battle. It was during his military career, the records of which were destroyed by bombings and fires, that Hasaka Yutashi, whose name changed many times during this period, became enamored not only of the socialist ideals of Mussolini and Hitler, but of the glamorized and romanticized images of bushido and the samurai promulgated by government propagandists, up to and including the practice of shudo, which he was very enthusiastic to embrace and implement. Sometimes alarmingly so. 1938: (age 20) It was during the Olympic games at Berlin, Germany that Hasaka Yutashi, now named Hitode Rikka, became aware of the United States and determined to someday visit this land of foreign devils where he could be free to commit even more atrocities. 1945: (age 27) Hasaka Yutashi, whose name had been changed to Fajji Pakka, was stationed on the island of Iwo Jima prior to the American invasion in February, Determining that he was on the losing side, he had decided to desert his post and flee. To this end, he had secretly built a raft and stocked it with stolen supplies. His plan was to sail to the western shores of Kyushu, then make his way back home to Tokyo. An unforeseen storm blew him off course, and he drifted for days on the water until ultimately landing on the shores of northern Korea, near a small fishing village called Sinanju. Taking on the Korean name Gidae Huelgson, he decided to conceal himself there until the war was over. While recovering from his ordeal there, he accidentally observed what he determined to be a village elder training in some form of martial art. He tried to imitate the movements he had seen, but could only produce a pale shadow of the sun source. 1951-1953 (age 33-35): Sinanju, a name which literally translates as “Comfortable New Village”, in South Pyongan Province, North Korea was 100% destroyed during the Korean War. Yutashi (Huelgson) barely escaped with his life. After the destruction of his quiet life as a fisherman, he decided to return to his homeland, making his way in a stolen fishing boat to the shores of Kyushu, and eventually making his way back to Tokyo. During his travels across Kyushu, sporting the new name of Shiroi Nomikomu, he encountered more secretive martial artists, including an art practiced by an obscure family named Saija (which is not a real Japanese name, either. Coincidence?) that lived in the area of Kagoshima. This rekindled his interest in martial arts, and he decided to throw himself into these studies when he returned to his hometown. 1960s – 1970s: (ages 42-52) Now going by the name Sukamu Buketsu, through bribery and forgery of some letters and documents, a skill he learned from his father and perfected in the military, he conned his way into studying Daito Ryu under Horikawa Kodo. 1975 (age 57) : Sukamu Buketsu, during one of his first trips to America using forged papers under yet other names, attended a secretive, underground no-holds-barred fighting tournament called Kumite in the Bahamas, but did not compete, as his close friend Senzo Tanaka's student Frank Dux was on the roster, and he did not wish to harm, or possibly kill, his friend's star pupil. 1977-1978: (ages 59-60) By means of yet more bribery and forgery, and using legitimate connections established even while committing fraud, the now-named Kuso Nagetto, studied Yoshinkan Aikido with Shioda Gozo in Tokyo. He also re-visited and trained with Insei Saija, who had adopted and appointed his American pupil, Bryce Dallas, as heir to his art of Konigun karate. 1980s: Now in his 60s, he changed his name and traveled to America numerous times, eventually settling permanently in California. During some of the many times he visited America, he was caught committing petty crimes because he really wasn't all that competent at his preferred profession, even with his extensive experience. One of these times, after changing his name to (finally) Hasaka Yutashi, he met an individual named Willaim Sirbaugh, and eventually through him, met his step-son Steven Hatfield. Quickly realizing Sirbaugh as the petty low-life that he was, Yutashi devised a different strategy to insinuate himself into this sucker's life, as well as his son's. He conned Sirbaugh into believing that he was a martial arts master, which Sirbaugh, being a small-time career criminal with low self-esteem and possessing a weak mind, readily believed. He suckered Sirbaugh, and later Steven Hatfield, into contributing to support his lifestyle, along with many others he grifted from (using a different name for each) during his life in this land of wealthy foreign devils that he despised so much. 1999: (age 78) Hasaka Yutashi, pulling the name out of his ass, officially named his bullshit art American Yoshinkan Aiki Jujutsu. Steven Hatfield moved to Ohio but, being thoroughly indoctrinated into Yutashi's lies, traveled back to California frequently, and even brought Yutashi to Ohio on many occasions. Hatfield even traveled to Japan with him several times, which his passport records will show. Just ask him. 2007: (age 89) Realizing his free ride through life was coming to an end, Hasaka Yutashi, laughing and coughing into his sleeve, designated Steven Hatfield as the successor of his bullshit martial art, using a name no real Japanese would use because, why not? No stupid hamburger-smelling gaijin is going to know that no real Japanese would dirty his art with a name like American Yoshinkan Aiki Jujutsu. 2008: (age 90) Autoerotic asphyxia is truly an embarrassing way to die. 2011: Steven Hatfield met Bret Gordon, and immediately knew this naive, immature boy was the easily-manipulated little dupe he was looking for. 2012: Steven Hatfield began training Bret Gordon in the bullshit martial art of American Yoshinkan Aiki Jujutsu. 2020: On January 12, Steven Hatfield named Bret Gordon as the successor of the bullshit partial art of American Yoshinkan Aiki Jujutsu. Bret Gordon claims to possess paperwork, which he cannot read, as well as photographs of someone he claims is Hasaka Yutashi. He also claims to have been given Yutashi's personal red belt. He also claims that he protects Hasaka Yutashi's still living relatives from the dread internet trolls who want him to prove his claims.
Tell you what Brety-boy, if Hasaka Yutashi's “living relatives” find this offensive and defamatory, just have them sue me. After all, that's working out so well for you against Dr. Dale Dugas, isn't it? Sources https://www.americanyoshinkan.com/history.html http://www.join-usama.com/blog/what-is-a-martial-arts-fraud http://www.join-usama.com/blog/manipulating-the-truth https://allabout-japan.com/en/article/5187/ https://www.nytimes.com/1934/03/22/archives/1500-japanese-die-in-hakodate-fire-200000-homeless-largest-city.html https://militaryphony.com/2017/03/19/frank-william-dux-cold-case-getting-warmer/ https://www.slideserve.com/rudyard-dale/structure-of-the-deviant-act Meat-Shields and Manipulators by Harold K. (HK) Hayward For more background on frauds Steven Hatfield and Bret Gordon, see Gerald J.'s article - Humor Me If You Will. Bryce Dallas, though laughable at first glance, ran what eventually became a global criminal organization, while Steven Hatfield is behind a group of organizations which are, at their core, criminal enterprises on a smaller scale. This article will explore the similarities and the differences between Bryce Dallas and Steven Hatfield, between Dallas' Konigun Ninjutsu and Hatfield's Ohio-based syndicate, between the “Goon Squad” and Bret Gordon. Part One: Front Men Bryce Dallas kept himself well-insulated behind a virtual wall of bodies, collectively referred to by Cayce Lancaster as the “Goon Squad”. Dallas would bind this inner circle of the most gullible and malleable of his students to him by convincing them to commit seemingly minor infractions in the beginning, and slowly building to larger and larger atrocities as time went by. In this way, he could blackmail them into remaining under his thrall, many of them completely against their will, desperately seeking a way out, which they eventually received in the revelation of evidence proving that Dallas had lied about the very foundation of his “ninjutsu”. Dallas had become, essentially, a cult leader. The high school photographs which proved Dallas had lied about training with a Japanese master over a period of nine years allowed many of them to break his hold and escape the abuses they had endured for far too long. A very similar situation has unfolded in regards to Steven Hatfield, in the revelation that his step-father was in prison during the period in which he was allegedly teaching Hatfield his trio of foundational arts. This thorough discrediting of his fraudulent claims has provided an opportunity for Hatfield's students and associates to escape if they so wish. Steven Hatfield has only one front man serving as an easily-identifiable bulwark between him and public resentment, and possible legal recourse. Bret Gordon has been left dangling by Hatfield, taking the brunt of the criticisms leveled against them both, and against their many sham organizations and their dubious associates. What kind of “sensei” hides behind his student, allowing them to be their meat-shield while they sit back and chuckle from a safe distance? The Steven Hatfield kind, of course. Part Two: The Insei-Yutashi Propaganda Project When Bryce Dallas began teaching Konigun “Karate”, as it was initially called, he claimed that he had learned the art from an American man named Jim Crenshaw (or somesuch) who had learned the art while living in Japan. Initially he gave no name for this fictitious Japanese master, nor did he claim to be its current grandmaster. After getting his ass kicked in front of all his students and run out of town by Isshin Ryu karate black belt Roger Williams, Dallas dropped off the radar for a while, re-emerging years later having re-branded and re-tooled his fictional art. Dallas had restructured and consolidated before expanding, having changed Konigun “Karate” to Konigun “Ninjutsu”, proclaiming himself as the current grandmaster after having trained for nine years in Japan under the previous grandmaster, Insei Saija. Never mind that Dallas couldn't seem to spell his alleged master's name correctly, at times spelling his name as Ensai or Enshi, and finally settling upon the name-that-is-not-a-name of Insei. Steven Hatfield seems to have had the same problem when beginning his childish fantasies, and he has been stupid enough to reference people who are still alive and can give testimony against his fraudulent claims. Initially he claimed to be taught by his “father” John Paul, referred to as J.P. in his 2012 bio. As time went on, Hatfield changed the lies he was telling in an attempt to spin a more believable fairy tale. Giving no explanation for the substitution, he completely replaced J.P. with William Sirbaugh as his father for a time, until finally settling upon the verifiable truth of William Sirbaugh being his step-father. Part Three: The House of Sharts Dallas claimed only loose connections to other fraudulent associations that he could use to make himself seem more credible, mostly preferring to keep to his own little network of schools.
Steven Hatfield claims, as of this publishing, to be teaching, along with James Parrish and Bill Cromer, the following: Ryu Saiichi Do Karate founded by H in 1999 (no rank listed) Wae Kune Do karate founded by Clarence West in 1969 (no rank listed) Meibukan Goju Ryu karate (no rank listed) http://www.thetechniciandojo.com/karate.html Yudo/Judo in Jack “Papasan” Stern's lineage (total fraud, bread truck driver, found guilty of Stolen Valor in 1996) (no rank listed) Koji Jujutsu founded by H in 2015 (no rank listed) Carlos Machado Jiu Jitsu (no rank listed) http://www.thetechniciandojo.com/grappling.html Aikido founded by Morihei Ueshiba Tenshi Akuma Do Aiki Jiujitsu founded by H in 2008 http://www.thetechniciandojo.com/aiki-arts.html These are some of the sham organizations created by Steven Hatfield and Bret Gordon to issue each other STDs (Socially Transmitted Diplomas) for seemingly authentic “recognition” or “certification”, in order to bolster their facade of supposed legitimacy. Some are affiliated with legitimate organizations, most likely obtained through fraudulent means.: Zen Nihon Kendo Renmei Yoshinkai (American Yoshinkan Aiki Jiujitsu) Kokusai Nihon Bugei Rengokai American Jidokwan Association US Association of Martial Arts Law Enforcement Tactical Training Institute International San Budo Federation Ryu Sakura Do Karate Federation Kontei Judo Club U.S. Traditional Kodokan Judo Association As you can see, these sham organizations are quite numerous, and this may not be all of them. Compare the above, current claims with what Hatfield was claiming when he was a member of the BDFS. (Yes, THAT BDFS.) Styles and Rank/Awards achieved P.H.D in Martial Science From the International School Of Martial Science (no accredited university on this planet offers a Ph.D. in any form of martial art)
Back to our main attraction: Steven Hatfield actively and openly commits fraud, while Bryce Dallas gradually faded into the background after establishing his wall of front men. Dallas would seek out those he could bend to his will who already had either some experience in legitimate martial arts, or those who were competent fighters, preferably those whom he suspected would be more willing to commit criminal acts. After putting these individuals through an accelerated training program, and most of the time promoting them far beyond their actual abilities, he would place them in teaching positions, sometimes setting them up in their own schools or training groups. That way, he could have others committing fraud for him, albeit usually unwittingly on their part. Steven Hatfield, on the other hand, has placed himself at the forefront of his own school, where he is featured as the “owner and chief instructor”. Bryce Dallas expanded his criminal activities outside the sphere of martial arts, while Steven Hatfield has built his criminal organization wholly within that sphere (so far as we know). Bryce Dallas also ran a fraudulent construction business, along with his partner-in-crime, Jay Green. The full extent of this construction business fraud is unknown. As an interesting aside, there is a blurb on the Technician Dojo's website regarding their three main instructors which states: “All 3 Main Instructors Were Featured In the 2018 "AMAA Who's Who in the Martial Arts" And were recipients of the "Who's Who Legends Award!" “ This is interesting because . . . well . . . let's save that for another time. Even after more than 16 years of inquiry, the surface of Bryce Dallas' non-martial arts-related criminal activity has barely been scratched. It is known that Bryce Dallas and some of his students were engaged in: Assault and Battery Attempted Murder Burglary Conspiracy Counterfeiting Defamation Fraud Libel Racketeering Rape Slander Theft Trespass and, even though it is yet unproved, if the preponderance of evidence and testimony is correct, Bryce Dallas murdered his own father. Compared to this laundry list of criminal activity, Steven Hatfield is a relative lightweight, having only committed fraud. At least, so far as is known.
Part Four: Yellow-Bellied Bastards – or – Behind the Meat Shield Both Bryce Dallas and Steven Hatfield are ultimately cowards who would not, and will not, come forward to publicly provide evidence of their claims preferring instead to revise their lies when exposed, and try to defame their detractors instead of debate the real issues. Issues which arise due to their own actions. Frauds place themselves in the public domain when they make their claims in a public forum. Public scrutiny is a natural result, yet frauds claim people are somehow acting “dishonorably” by merely asking questions. This is a common tactic of frauds – being unable to provide credible evidence for their claims, they instead engage in ad hominem attacks against anyone and everyone who would DARE to question the integrity of shidoshi/grandmaster/anshu/kaiso/renshi/hanshi/sensei/gezundheit. Stay tuned for my next series of articles: “How to Sue Your Sensei!” If YOU are suspicious of someone's claims, please feel free to contact either Gerald J. Greysmith or myself, HK Hayward, via email. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Further reading:https://martialartsfraudsandfakes.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/may-the-circle-jerk-be-unbroken-part-1/ https://martialartsfraudsandfakes.wordpress.com/2020/08/10/bret-gordon-fraud-ego-and-shell-games-havent-we-all-been-here-before/ https://martialartsfraudsandfakes.wordpress.com/2020/11/04/steven-hatfield-and-bret-gordonmeet-your-founder/ Greysmith Investigations (1) Bullshit Martial Arts | Facebook In the previous entry, it was mentioned that the fraudulent martial artist known as Bret Gordon might be accepting a challenge to prove his skills by a legitimate martial artist: “The bottom line: Bret Gordon is a posturing fraud who has never been involved in a life-or-death encounter, and won't even accept a non-life-threatening challenge match to test his competence against a legitimate martial artist, even with ground rules and equipment to insure minimization of injury to either party. Bret Gordon is the complete antithesis of Miyamoto Musashi. (Though this may be changing in the very near future. Stay tuned for further developments.)” Fraud that he is, it was expected that Gordon would back down from this challenge, but not quite so soon, nor were the circumstances leading up to this abrupt cancellation foreseeable by anyone. Presented without comment: (click pic for video)
Gordon, who apparently doesn't consider himself a “real man” doesn't “stop talking”. Instead he almost immediately begins issuing a flurry of posts, adding qualifiers, undoubtedly preening for his sycophants, again attempting to portray himself as somehow being victimized, and even denies the obvious reality that he issued the challenge, which is completely contradictory to his initial post: Gordon: “If you want to bring one or two friends, fine.” Remember this. Taking into consideration Gordon's years-long history of fraud and deception, Dugas decided to deliver the waiver a week prior to the event and scout out the location to be certain where he was going, a prudent precaution in this type of situation, especially when dealing with unstable individuals. Dugas and his two friends wisely decided to film the delivery in its entirety in order to insure Gordon didn't lie about the exchange. What they captured on video was entirely unexpected. The “kaiso” and his “little captain” Upon reviewing both of the videos, there are a number of things that can be seen, and a lot of new questions to be answered. The parking area outside the dojo does not appear to be well-lit. Is this not a safety concern? For what reason is the window in the door obscured? Since you claim that class was canceled for the night, why is the door not locked? Why are you sitting so close to your female student, who is married and has two children? Why the hell do you even keep alcoholic beverages at the dojo? Does Hackworth know about this (he does now)? Why are you drinking rum (and diet soda) with your female student, who is married and has two children? There may or may not be anything illegal going on here, assuming everyone involved is of legal age and consenting adults, but it certainly does appear as if it could potentially be immoral, and is definitely unethical. I mean, anyone could walk through that unlocked door at any moment. Oh, wait . . . Since you claim that you did not have a uniform as an excuse to avoid meeting Dugas' challenge that night, why did you post this earlier: How is your not having a uniform a legitimate excuse not to accept a challenge? Do you have to be wearing your kaiso costume in order to perform your fraudulent art? If so, how is this practical for normal people? And why did you later claim that you keep your uniforms at your school? Which time were you lying? You claimed that your name is not on the lease, yet a few days ago you claimed that you owned half that business? Which time were you lying? Any reasonable person should be able to understand that, no matter what was actually transpiring, or was about to transpire, that night does not look good. You really don't need another dozen donuts. Chain-guzzling milkshakes is not helping, either. You just can't help yourself can you, Gordon? You've been busted lying numerous times, yet you can't stop lying no matter what happens. Dugas showed up with two friends, as you agreed, yet you portray him as being so afraid of a fraud like you that he needs bodyguards. Laughable. You claim this was an attempt at intimidation on Dugas' part, yet it is plainly evident that all he did was hand-deliver a signed liability waiver to you and confirm your appointment for November 12th, no mention whatsoever of cancellation. Again, laughable (meaning pathetic). Again, within hours "kaiso" Bret Gordon, self-proclaimed master of multiple martial arts, with accolades bestowed by fellow fraudoka Steven Hatfield himself, issued an epically reality-resistant punk-out: The text of this dime novelette of perverted fiction reads:
"Bret Gordon is with Steven Hatfield ATTENTION BSMA! This will be long... WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE I am both impressed and appalled at the abilities of those over at BSMA to twist the details of virtually anything to suit their agenda, and have no doubt they could pervert even the Immaculate Conception as just an elaborate lie to cover up the fact that Mary was really a slut. The way they view the world through their sick, twisted minds should be more telling than anything else. My school, Trio Martial Arts Academy, is a semi-private institution that limits instruction to teens and adults (currently, there is not a single active student under the age of 21). I have worked hard to develop a culture among my students that allows us to function as family. In fact, I'm probably closer to every single one of my students than I am to many of my blood relatives. Because I cater to adults, when not in training the walls come down. It is not uncommon for us to sit around after the last class of the night with a bottle of sake, decompressing from the stresses of the week. I confide in them just as much as they confide in me. You may call us a social club, and I fail to see how that's a negative. I have a full-time job already, and my dojo is not a business nor do I have any intention of running it like one. By now, I'm sure everyone has seen the video of Dale and his bodyguards showing up unannounced on a night when I cancelled class last minute and was instead sitting at the dojo with two students (there is only one that can be seen in frame, but my sister is just around the corner. Dale even waved to her, so he can't say she wasn't there). One other student was on his way as well, and showed up roughly 5 minutes after Dale left. Why Dale needed two bodyguards to just "drop off a waiver" is beyond me, and the truth is that if he had any intention of stepping on the mat with me, he would've asked to do so when he had me outnumbered instead of saying "I'll be back." No one drives an hour and a half just to hand someone a piece of paper that they already emailed over. Now, a couple of things about that night have become part of BSMA's sick and twisted fantasy about who they think I am, so let me state this unequivocally. I was not "drinking alone with a married female student." As stated, we weren't alone, and in the video you can clearly see my student is holding a soda from McDonald's. WE were not drinking. I had a drink, which as a grown man in the company of other adults, I don't need to explain myself for doing. To then try and equate that with a healthcare professional who smokes pot before seeing patients is just mind-blowing. The next thing they brought up was the fact that I rushed her out of the room, implying it shows we were "caught and guilty." Just, no. When three hostile individuals (who spent months making threats against me) walked into my school, I sent my student into the other room and placed myself in between the door and the visitors just in case something popped off. Period! There is absolutely no excuse for putting my student on blast, including posting contact info for her family, and potentially putting her entire life, marriage and career in jeopardy! Doing so just shows the lack of humanity and decency any of them have, and let's the world know what true pieces of shit they are. Now with regards to this coming Thursday when Dale is supposed to return, with two more bodyguards, for us to settle our differences. BSMA has already stated that the outcome of any match we have will not prove anything. Furthermore, I know that the outcome will be twisted. If I win, they'll say it was due to his age and his stamina. If he gets injured, they'll say "See! Bret is dangerous and violent like we said and shouldn't be teaching." Even with a signed waiver, I have no doubt they will try to sue my partner for damages since technically it's not even my unit that we teach in nor is my name on the lease. After all, he only agreed not to sue ME. Taking all of this into consideration, I am officially calling off the 12th. It is absolutely pointless if BSMA won't concede that it proves my legitimacy. There is no doubt in my mind they will only come at me harder in retaliation after I win, and I don't need the street cred of otherwise faceless trolls on the internet to be able to sleep at night. Dale Dugas - you and your friends are no longer welcome in my school. I am done entertaining your charade, and the fact that you had every opportunity to ask me to step on the floor this past week and chose not to just proves how unwilling you really are while trying to save face. If you and your echo chamber want to throw the "bitch card" at me for this, go for it. It's certainly in character for you. But frankly, you and everyone else at BSMA can just fuck off." Again, pathetic. Gordon, cowardly fraud that he is, punked out of a challenge match that he never had any intention of honoring anyway. The principles of honor, courage, humility, etc. that he writes about in his blog are only words devoid of any real meaning to him and all frauds of the Bret Gordons, Steven Hatfields and others of their ilk who seemingly infest the martial arts community. True enough, they are laughable at first blush, but they must be taken as a serious threat to the reputation and integrity of the community at large. Signing off for now, HK |
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