Here is the one piece of information I still need to complete the article.
On [day, month, year] Chad Sloman sent Ashida Kim (aka Chris Hunter) the following e-mail at http://dojopress.com/catalogms2.html. “Please send me a black belt certificate in “Vale Tudo”. My experience: 7th kyu Yoshukai Karate (World Yoshukai Karate Kobudo Organization); 1.5 years (untested) Atarashii Naginata (Scouthern California Naginata Federation); 5th kyu Aikido (Aikido Schools of Ueshiba); 7th kyu Judo (United States Judo Association)”
I need the date you e-mailed Ashida Kim.
Secondly I need your phone number and address for the press release since they may want to interview you.
Third, I need you to make five color copies of the certificates in question front and back if they have printing on their back. Please mail them to me at Samuel Browning Esq, 671 Scotland Rd, Norwich Ct 06360. I will need them for shipping out the press releases.
Kick catcher, please send me a e-mail with the cartoon in j-peg form so i can download it and print it out.
you’re going to shit when you get here and see how we pronounce the name of our version of the Thames River which of course runs by New London Connecticut.
Strangely your e-mail arrived but the attachment didn’t I think it might have gotten caught by my spam filter.
Christopher Hunter may be a psuedonym. The guys real name is possibly Radford W.Davis.
But Don Q. has less then 10 posts here, so we have to double check. If we take his word and he’s a Kim plant and we’re wrong there is egg all over our face.
Since I’m a computer tard does anyone want to double check his work? I can tell you exactly what I’m looking for.
Otherwise I have to go down to DC from Connecticut to hand check these records and its a long ride.
BTW. Chad, do we have any Bullshido member who is near lake alfred?
Ashida has, by PM which Ezboard has since dropped from my inbox (time expired???) denied that he is Chris Hunter and the certs Chad has have two sigs, Ashida kim and Chris Hunter (ad others). Maybe we should hold back on the Chris Huner accusation as, if we are provably wrong, it could be used as a focus for ‘proving’ the whole article wrong.
Is there any way to find out who the company officials of Dojo Press are? In most countries that is public knowledge and can be found out from whatever government registers limited (incorporated) companies.
This is actually an incredibly unreliable guide if they are out and out crooks as false details are common -but if Ashida is even half legit (no criminal intent) then he’ll use his real name as the director -the name used in his personal taxation affairs.
The DojoPress website quotes a copyright ref “SM112476” which I tried to check past www.copyright.gov
No joy -the “SM” prefix is not a recognised one. But then maybe I’m looking in the wrong place.
If DojoPress i incorporated in Florida he will have to have given his federal tax ID (EIN) which will prevent him easily using pseudonyms. Also, the registered address mustn’t be a PO box.
I also tried to find “ashida Kim” as a trademark or trademark holder there… no joy.
and I checked for company officials there. Variations on Ashida Kim, Chris Hunter, Radford Davis. No joy -Chris/Christopher Hunter brought up quite a few but nothing obvious.
I also searched under “fictious name” which I guess means trading names etc. No Ashida Kim or DojoPress.
I conclude… that we need to tie down just who exactly DojoPress is and where it is incorporated. Then we will know who he really is…
Getting warmer!
It’s the first time I’ve made this type of trace enquiries in US so I’m a finding my feet. But I’ve found a useful search engine called ZABA: http://www.zabasearch.com/ like all, it is trying to sell background checks. But it can all the same be used to verify names/addresses etc for free.
Radford Davis
There are three recorded in Florida:
1a. RADFORD DAVIS, 2021 11TH AVE FORT LAUDERDALE FL
1b. RADFORD W DAVIS, born Sep 1925, 1010 AVENUE W NW WINTER HAVEN FL (863) 293-6975
1c. RADFORD W DAVIS, born Jul 1948, 1010 AVENUE W NW WINTER HAVEN FL (863) 293-6975
Both 1b & 1c are good matches, 1c obviously being the leader. I don’t know the US system but I’m guessing that this means that Radford W Davis is a real name not a pseudonymn.
Ashida Kim
No trace in whole of US. The only variation I couldn’t search was “A Kim” as there are too many kims with “A” first names -Korean population no doubt. Assuming that the search engine has a high % content integrety, at least for legit people, then this to me suggests that Ashida Kim is an alias.
Christopher Hunter (nb. I’m taking Chris to be short for Christopher rather than Christine, or on its own etc)
There are 78 in Florida.
Three were born in September 1948:
3a. CHRISTOPHER K HUNTER, Sep 1948, 5071 DUNDEE AVE DE LEON SPRINGS FL (386) 985-6696
3b. CHRISTOPHER K HUNTER, Sep 1948
3c. CHRISTOPHER K HUNTER, Sep 1948, 4799 HARMONY WOODS TRL DE LEON SPRINGS FL
I suggest that all three are the same person.
There are a few other Christopher K Hunters but either too young or without birth dates recorded. One Christopher Hunter lives in the same street as Radford Davis:
3d. CHRISTOPHER HUNTER, 4900 CYPRESS GARDENS RD WINTER HAVEN FL
I checked through “Chris Hunter” also. 55 in Florida. None with 1948 birth years mentioned nor same address or phone# as Davis (1c).
Hmm… so Ashida could well be either Hunter or Davis… My bet is Davis given the copyright info.
I ordered the black belt on 3/21, but it’s not an email perse but rather just a box you fill out along with your address, etc when placing the order, you can see it by going to the weblink and clicking on the add order button, look in the “let’s get it on” thread in this forum
My address is 8236 Ridgefield Rd., Pensacola, FL 32514 and my numbers are (850)479-4908 home and (850)232-4811 cell
Fucking SWeet Kickcatcher! Also Winter Haven also happens to be where Dieuseul Berto hails from who is the author of the “ultimate wrestling techniques” pamphlet/book that I received with my certificate. He does seem to be legitamate as he has promoted MMA shows in that area but I’ve not been able to get onto his website for his school, so I don’t know if his school is still open or his website is just defunct, who knows? BUT, that might be another avenue to track AK down. An aside note is that through my internet search of Dieuseul Berto, I found that his son boxed in the last Olympics representing Haiti.
Winter Haven is right next door to Lake Alfred (to give you an idea, they are both half way between Tampa and Orlando), so he’s probably lives within the city limits of Winter Haven yet goes to Lake Alfred where he bought a post office box to use for his Dojo Press mail.
there are several TKD and Karate schools operating out of the winter haven/lake alfred/lakeland area where the instructors may have inside info on AK. It might be worth giving their dojos a call just to see if they got any inside info on it.
I’m tempted to call him myself, but I don’t know how in cahootz he is with AK and I dont want this man to hunt me down and beat me to a pulp for ruining some business venture he is enjoying, but it’s a solid lead if we want to use it
I wouldn’t call him, he’s a buddy with Kim. What I’m going to say next doesn’t leave this section. JKD Chick is having my love child! Okay I’m joking but what follows is serious.
I talked to Steven Hayes today off the record. He doesn’t like to comment on other “Ninja” practicioners in public, he thinks it draws in the wingnuts, but here are some of his off the record not for attribution comments.
Ashida’s real name is something like Radford Davis, and as of the last time Hayes knew, he was living in Lakeland Florida. Hayes found this out from Peder Lund of Paladin Press who published Ashida’s works and was really embarrassed when he met Hayes at a party. i.e. lund knows he published bullshit.
Hayes commented that he did not know Davis, and did not think he was legitimate. He also said that he had not seen any real Ninjistu in the few of Kim’s books he had seen.
When Hayes leaked the name of Davis a while back Ashida claimed Davis was on his website becausee he was his accountant.
If people feel up to it we could go troll Ashida’s board for the following purpose. Mention the davis name, and accuse, citinng the library of congress info, Ashida claims Davis is the accountant as he claimed when previously accused by people close to Hayes. We copy the post and then I run the names of the CPA’s in florida and catch him in yet another stupid lie.
I don’t think you have to go to that much trouble to prove something we already know…
well Asia told me not to tell everybody something about the identity of Ashida Kim that he told me over beers, so I wish we could just get him in here to comment so that I don’t have to spill the beans and get it all wrong anyways
I think the Radford Davis is right on… I’ve been trying to find Dojo Press as a corporation or business license or something all day with no avail, so I wonder if he’s business’ing without a license… that’s a whole nother can of worms