SokeCalkins said:
Mr Frost was stationed in Japan during the Military. This is all I know. And the Certificate as I have stated in other posts I was forced to re create. If this makes it fake then Fine. I have not changed my story and I won't. I had to re creat several of my certificates do to loss over the years due to travel or too badly damaged.
Sai was a weapon Mr Frost enjoyed so it was taught. I teach a Karate School but I teach Chinese weapons. Many Instructors teach what they enjoy not just tradition.
Mr Calkins, your post creates more questions than it answers.
First of all, there was no David Frost studying in Japan prior to 1977. Trust me on this. I train in Hatsumi's orginization here in Japan. Back then you could count the number of people in the Bujinkan on two hands and we gaijin stand out.
But you claim to have seen a picture of him training with Hatsumi. Do you realize what people must think after that?
And then there is the matter of SK Hayes. He only met Hatsumi a few months before you said you started living in your teacher's dojo. And he lived in Atlanta at the time, not Texas. How the heck could he have gotten a picture with David Frost? In Japan? But that would mean that Frost had to come back to Texas from Japan after leaving the military and be established enough to take you in with just a few months.
And of course, in all the time that SK Hayes was teaching he never seemed to come forward to meet up with him.
You can understand what a reasonable person would assume from this. You talk of religious faith. I think that maybe a few religious members might take offense at that. You are not God, and you can't expect to be treated like one. In God we trust- all others pay cash. Knowing that there are many, many people who lie about their background, coupled with your lack of knowledge about martial arts and the problems with your story, it is only reasonable that people think that you only had about two years total training under real teachers and then made up the rest of your story.
And we are not the Taliban here. We moderators can't
make people accept your story without proof. We do not let people be rude or harrasing, but a calmly worded statement about how people do not believe you and think you made it all up is part of the freedom of expression we have here. To be honest, the way you then argue on about matters cause the most disruptions here. If you don't want to prove anything, then really you are only causing disruptions if you continue the debate.
If I had some advice for you Mr Calkins it would be this. When you debated satinism no one had any problems with what you wrote because there was no relation to your claims and martial arts experience. When you mention experiences to add weight to your statements, you open the door to people pointing out that you can't back up anything you say. If you merely stop trying to add weight to your statements by mentioning your accomplishments, then 99 percent of the problems go away. And if people make a comment about how you are probably lying about your experiences then merely put them on your ignore list and not disrupt the conversation by insisting that people believe you without any sort of proof.
I think that most people are put off by what they see as you giving the impression of a person that demands respect, when you have not demonstrated a great amount of skill or knowledge. If you stop giving that impression, then things would be a lot easier for us around here. One thing you could do is change your screen name from SokeCalkins to Bruce Calkins. We can do that if you ask. You state at the beggining of this thread that you do not believe that titles are important. You could show that this is not merely empty words on your part by changing the names and then not make any mention of something you do not have the ability to prove.
