GREYSMITH INVESTIGATIONS

"The Log in Your Eye" by  Gerald Greysmith It has been an interesting week for me. Since before the release of my last article and for a few days after that our hotline has been a hotbed of activity. I had a personal conversation with Mr. Bret Gordon who claims to be the head of a system known as American Yoshinkan Aikijujutsu . Gordon reached out to myself and my associate Mr. Cayce Lancaster on July 9th, 2020 directly before the newest material was published. (It can be viewed here.)   In that publishing I spoke directly about the claims made by Gordon's teacher and the man he states he inherited his system from, a Mr. Stephen Hatfield and specifically the Judo credentials which Hatfield himself had claimed with relation to Mr. Jack "Papasan" Stern . Stern was proven in a court of law to have given ranks in Judo and Yudo that were not officially sanctioned by a governing body of either artform as well as being an admitted fraud in relatio...

"Oh Grandmaster, Where Art Thou?" by Gerald Greysmith September, 1981 - Kagoshima, Japan It was a sunny Saturday morning and Insei Saija was awakening from his meditative slumber. Oh, how happy he was this day. His senior (and only) student had just returned to open the first Konigun Ninjutsu dojo outside of country and of all places...Mississippi! He truly hoped that his disciple remembered that it was imperative that he call the art "Konigun Karate," that way he could personally ensure only the best truly became ninja themselves at the rank of fifth degree.  This day was special as well for another reason. Saija-sensei's good friend Tiger Tanaka had just finished filming on a James Bond film reboot and, like him, was excited also because his own senior student was also on his way to the Bahamas to fight in a very super-secret underground tournament where he would bring fame and honor to their specific and totally unnamed school of the sha...