Actually, you made no such claim until I hinted that it was your page...First off, as indicated both on that page and here in the thread I WROTE THAT PAGE. I was soliciting response to the subject by posting a link to it here. Just to clarify the subject, my signature is at the bottom of the page and my user name is the same: "jtweymo". Just so we are clear about that one!
Actually, it was your third, shortly after my post hinting that you were the author of the web page in question.
Not everyone reads the URL when they click a link (or else phishing sites wouldn't be so successful). I would also guess that many people gave up on the page well before the bottom, as the poor formatting and overuse of caps made it annoying to read.
You see, this is where part of your confusion grows. Not having much (if any?) contact with actual Japanese within your "Japanese" martial art, you fail to understand that to the Japanese, ignoring something is not the same as having no problem with it. There are a number of schools with names that coincide with those of existing koryu. Most of these are outside of Japan (like yours), although there are some in Japan itself. Most of these came about from a Japanese native that had some experience in a school without having been granted the authority to teach and open a branch of that school. They gathered some students and taught what they knew. Eventually they left, and there's a school with senior students practicing what they've been taught under a particular name, but no connection to the actual source of said name. Occassionally (but far more rare) are those instances where a westerner has lived in Japan for a number of years, and learned an art there. He then started teaching it upon his return home, again without authority or connection to the original art. These schools are pretty much ignored as irrelevant by the heads of the koryu whose names they share. Occassionally there will be issues (such as Fred Lovret's Tenshin ryu) where the head of a koryu group will demand that they cease using the name. Usually though, it's simply ignored.
If someone brings an art here from Japan claiming to teach such and such art under this that or the other instructor, there will definitely be people that question it. However, if said instructor and dojo starter does have the authority to open a branch dojo, they will simply show that authority was granted, tell the questioner who to contact for more information, and that will be that. Believe it or not, it happens a lot. The vast majority of folks involved in the Japanese arts have full authority by the home dojo to teach what they do, and no problems answering questions about it. And, there will always be people that don't entirely believe those answers for whatever reason. It doesn't really matter that much to the person running the dojo. They have their authority from their own instructor, and what others think is pretty much irrelevant (that's a very Japanese way of thinking as I stated earlier).
In that case, I sincerely apologize. I got the impression from your article that your school was only found in the west (U.S.A. ?), and had no actual Japanese hombu or higher level instructors to further your training. Since that's not the case, where is your hombu dojo located?
I didn't mean that you've never talked or trained with Japanese. I meant that your instructor and the upper level seniors of your school were not Japanese. Since you've just told me that was wrong, I apologize. However, you seem to have some strange ideas, in my opinion, for having trained under the Japanese for 30 years.
And thus we return to my question, which I might add you continue to side-step ... why is it such an issue with you? You're now accusing me of "insinuations"? I've no idea what exactly you're talking about, or what "insinuations" you think I may be making. You are the one that came here asking for opinions.
