GREYSMITH INVESTIGATIONS

The National Governing Bodies of Judo exist for two reasons: Standards and Quality. In the United States there exists only three which are recognized by the Kodokan in Japan. They are USJA , USA Judo , and the USJF . These three governing bodies exist to carry on the tradition of Judo training here in our country with the sole purpose of building students, teaching the art, and producing quality practitioners through the practice of technical training and randori, that is to say live training under pressure. The ranking standards are hard and meant to be so for the express reason of making each rank earned and not given....and certainly not meant to be purchased. However there have been those organizations which would have you believe they are connected to the Kodokan through other means. There exist those who believe something as simple as a membership card to the Kodokan itself signifies rank or meaning with regards to being connected to the main branch of the art in Japan….the...

Regret is a hard thing to live with in life. We all have times we look back and see into our past and think about the things we should have done, could have done, or would have done. How different would life have been in those moments you made a choice? Would it be what it is today? That’s the key word here: choice. We all have that God-given free will to exert over our lives power to make a choice. And how we move through life is honestly a series of choices that intersect across the boundaries and lives of others. I think in many cases with these frauds it will be the regret that they lied as they so often did, using claims to long-deceased people or making it all up as they went along until finally in the end they look back and realize that lies do catch up and one will reap what they sow. Most likely not but a guy can dream, right? It is with that thought in mind that I look now at what is the most important and pivotal claim of Bret Gordon, that of him being allegedly the headmast...