GREYSMITH INVESTIGATIONS

"Ideas are Bulletproof" by  Gerald Greysmith I sit here now almost three weeks after completing what I thought was the end of an investigation project into American Yoshinkan Aikijujutsu "headmaster" Bret Gordon and his article on Judoka Barron Shepherd. The damage I assume he hoped it would inflict onto Shepherd was completely and utterly upended by our team with our own work, though Gordon refuses to acknowledge that he and it seems to a large degree his teacher, Steven Hatfield, outright lied. Of course this is not new for them or anyone else who bank their entire martial arts careers on the embellishments of rank and collection of certificates.  Ever since we informally wrapped our coverage on Konigun Ninjutsu while legal entities take a look at our work I have had quite a bit of time to think. You see, dear readers, I never intended to go past that project nor did my dear and trusted friend Cayce Lancaster. No...we had intended to retire.  But duty calls it see...

"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...