Some people serve best as warnings to others.
When you put away as many pedophiles as I have behind bars, you gain some enemies. People that are scum really aren’t limited in how they response that normal people are. So my enemies, including those that prey on children, frauds and egotistical idiots can be pretty vicious.
One of the latest folks that obsess about me is a guy named David Richardson. He is a typical idiot that feeds his ego by creating a martial art to bask in the glory. Actually getting good before doing so never seems to be a priority with his type.
Mind you, there are some people that I respect that have started their own styles. But they need to put in decades of work before that point and have a good reason to do something new. 99 percent of the people that create their own stuff are like Richardson in that they don’t even bother to get to the level of teacher in a legitimate style before creating their own. Why go through years and years of blood sweat and tears when they can just create their own system of martial arts and have people literally bow in respect to them in less than a week?
The problem is, these people tend to be pretty whacked out inside, Richardson is a perfect example of that and serves as a good lesson in the dangers you face in the martial arts.
What kind of person takes the easy route to getting admiration as a grandmaster of his own style? Well, they usually are pretty hollow inside. Again, Richardson is a great example. He is 55 years old, a time when most men are in the prime of their career, had a marriage or two and maybe even a grand kid or two to spoil on the side. Richardson is a failed magician, no kids and the photos of women on his timeline seem decades old, mainly hired help or random women on the streets. I don’t find many people that build Fortune 500 companies from scratch trying to pass themselves off as sokes, it is only the folks that have nothing in their lives worth anything that try this sort of thing.
When someone tries to impress you with how great they are in martial arts, that is the time to walk away. Those that are good don’t try to impress others. In fact, they don’t even care if you think they are good or not. They know what they have done, so your opinion has no weight to them. Those that are trying to convince themselves they have some sort of worth, but deep inside part of them realizes they are failures, are the ones that will post photos of them scowling at the camera, or videos of themselves in an effort to impress. And because they are so fragile inside, they are the ones that will go nuts if you point out any problems with what they do.
Imagine telling Margret Thatcher that she was a weak- willed woman. Love her or hate her, you have to admit that all you would get is a chuckle in response. Now say the same thing to a female politician that mainly got where she was on the coattails of a man and see how long it takes to scrape her off the ceiling. Those that have it neither need to flaunt it nor care if anyone say they don’t have it. Those that don’t have it, but pretend, are some of the most insecure people on the planet.
I kicked Richardson out of a group a few months ago because he kept posting videos of his creation, American Ninjutsu Warrior Concepts instead of sticking to Bujinkan, which is what the group was about. I also made it clear to him that he moved like a pregnant yak. I do that sort of thing with egotistical idiots. Beginners asking for help by posting videos deserve assistance. But those that show they have huge egos deserve to be told just how bad they are.
Here is an example of his stuff. He meant it to impress others with his mastery. Obviously, he didn’t get the reaction from it he wanted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78Rdmh2mHE&t=1s
Ever since his removal from the group he has been obsessed with me. This is a lesson to others. When you deal with someone that creates a world view that is a lie, any threat to it will be met with levels of crazy you have never seen before. A man of his ability isn’t much of a threat to someone like me. But if I were living in Los Angeles where he does, I could expect that maybe he would be a bit more of a threat.
Every week Richardson puts up videos he cobbles together. He spends hours every day putting together homophobic videos of those he hates. His accusations that others like me are gay are very telling. He thinks I can be insulted by saying I am gay. Well I am not, but I don’t see any problems with people being gay.
You find such bigotry against gays a lot in martial arts with people insecure about their masculinity. This is a lesson as well. Men who are secure in themselves don’t need to prove anything. Those that take to martial arts to try to build up a facade of manliness are quick to use slurs against gays. Those types should not be tolerated in any situation, but it goes double in martial arts.
Richardson isn’t too bright. He posted a meme about me, trying to convince the world I am a KKK member. It is in line with one of the videos he previously posted. His logic is that since the KKK were close to the democratic party in power in Denver in the 1920s and I live in Colorado therefore I must be a member or at least support the KKK. The Klan must be lowering its standards to let a person of jewish descent with mixed race kids into their organization.
Soon, several accounts that had been set up on Instagram just before last weekend started sharing the meme. We counted at least a dozen accounts set up within a few hours of each other, all devoted to spreading memes accusing me of being a supporter of the KKK. They used various names, but all used the same style and memes. Most of them were taken down within a few hours of the start of the campaign. My friends found them, reported them and soon they were removed.
As you can tell, someone has a lot of time on his hands and a deep obsession with trying to hurt me in some way. Richardson has posted the address he thinks I live at in an attempt to dox me. He obviously hopes someone will show up to do harm to the person he paints as a KKK member. Again, he isn’t too bright. The house he lists was where I lived last year, before my wife died and my kid went off to live in the dorms at college.
This is just a part of all the time and effort he puts in to try to attack people like me. He has an entire group on Facebook devoted to gathering together people to try to do harm to my reputation or worse. At least one of the members is a convicted felon who had to take some time off from Facebook after a group I help run devoted to exposing BS in the martial arts found out he had tried to solicit sex from a 12 year old via messenger. Ashida Kim, Frank Dux and some of the other folks I have exposed are also members.
You may be cool, but you can never be as cool as someone who has an entire group on FB devoted to hating him.
Every day I can expect a video to be posted by Richardson, or a comment posted on one of Frank Dux’s articles about me. I do think that if Richardson put this much effort into being a magician, he wouldn’t be on public assistance.
Let us look at the core personality of these types. Richardson is not alone from manifesting these traits. Far from it. You find a lot of folks like him in martial arts. As long as things go their way, they can be pretty pleasant. But as soon as things go against them, and it always seems to go against them at some point, they turn into obsessed and spiteful lunatics.
Richardson is spending Valentine’s Day, today, alone. The pictures of him with women on his timeline are years old. Of course, what kind of woman would spend time with such a man so obsessed and bitter? One look at Richardson’s timeline and most women would run as fast as they could. This results in a spiral. He is alone and has more time to himself, so he makes videos and such to attack those he hates. The videos alienates him further from females, so less of them are willing to spend time with him, giving him more time to make videos. And the process goes on until he rarely leaves the house except to pick up food from time to time.
As for work, the reasons for his lack of success can be found in his approach to martial arts. He is terrible, really terrible. What he needs is to give up any hope of teaching and be a student for a decade or two. But his ego won’t let him do it. Instead of getting to a rank where he could teach Bujinkan, he dabbled in it for a while, then promoted himself to the head of an art he created. He needs the adulation of people, but lacks the willpower to put in the real work needed to get good enough to deserve it.
When Richardson tried to get on Americas Got Talent, he bombed big time. Imagine the worst skit you saw on that show, then realize he didn’t even get that far. He was buzzed out by two of the judges. They showed a bit talking about the people who didn’t make it to the airwaves and in the montage Richardson shows up for about ten seconds, dropping props and knocking them over. He was totally unprepared and lacked skill. You may see how this is the same attitude he has toward martial arts. His failure in his profession is mirrored in his lack of skill in martial arts because they stem from the same personality traits that cause him to never reach success.
When I tossed Richardson from the group, a few said that maybe I was too quick to do so. Seeing his actions, everyone now agrees that I should have done it sooner. People like Richardson infest some corners of the martial arts. The lesson is don’t form a full judgement of someone when things are going their way. To know a person, see what happens when they aren’t being treated with the awe and reverence they demand from others. You’ll find that they soon show their true personality and it isn’t pretty.