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Frank Dux was dubbed Pha Ma (The Flying Horse) for his trait
of finishing his opponent's off before they could drop by a flying The Secret Man FEATURE
jumping spinning back kick, as seen here.
CONTINUUM, the defined acceptable type and
amount of force lawfully, allowed.
Graduation
Day - Marine
Corp Recruit
Depot, San
Diego, 1975
Training Danbury SWAT, 1995
his schools and offering sale of his training
video, which is all supposed to be against
wiki-rules. In contrast, with my Dux Ryu
Ninjitsu system being deemed his rival, is it a
coincidence my book The Secret Man,
HarperCollins, 1996 is arbitrarily not allowed
to be sourced in providing any balanced
reporting and is declared self-published when
in fact it is vetted (substantiated and
independently verified) and published by a
major publishing house?
‘‘
child’s game ‘king of the mountain’. Like Nishiama’s student, and if one is old enough because we had mutual respect and trust in
politics it’s all about trying to take down the they might recall, the open challenges each other’s abilities.
person who is perceived on top. Of course, in advertised in the back of magazines by ‘Count
my case, I am made more vulnerable by the Dante’, in the 1960s, that I am informed, HS: Could you please tell me a bit about your
book, ‘The Secret Man’?
The crying shame of it all is martial artists are supposed to be above this FD: Call it my mea culpa, gone awry. My
manuscript was written at a time when I was
kind of lowly conduct. Gossip is the antithesis of acting honourably. These diagnosed with two brain tumours and wasn’t
expected to live due to after-surgery
Martial Art debunkers are themselves who are in need of being debunked. complications of a spinal fluid leak, my falling
ill to spinal meningitis.
fact I am a government whistleblower. Add to eventually, resulted in his untimely death, etc.
the mix the rabid commercialization of martial My book focused on several politically delicate
arts today and it should not surprise anyone Perhaps we make it easy for others, given the topics. Explaining why I earned the moniker
that trade libel is epidemic in the martial arts fact in my small circle we were schooled not to from which the book takes its title ‘The Secret
and other business communities. Particularly, talk openly about our fighting out of Man’. I am the descendant of three
as I pointed out previously with websites who consideration and respect for those who dare generations of intelligence operatives, where
convey and/or deny selected information and and lost. Our Kumite wasn’t supposed to be William Casey had served on one end of the
indicators to influence emotions, motives, about ‘fighting for acceptance’. It was all about "rat line" and my father on the other.
and objective reasoning, suppressing the testing yourself - your knowledge and spirit Given long standing family
truth in order to benefit. I am far from being with a person who is considered an equal - as ties, I served as a bridge
alone. The crying shame of it all is martial there is no knowledge or honour to be gained between organized crime
artists are supposed to be above this kind of by engaging in battles with weaker opponents. and intelligence
lowly conduct. Gossip is the antithesis of A direct violation of the unwritten code of agencies; I am the only
acting honourably. These Martial Art honour and martial art etiquette my generation person to have served,
debunkers are themselves who are in need of and twenty generations before me were simultaneously, for
being debunked. instilled with and still embrace. both adversarial sides
of the cold war.
On an individual level, I believe the kind of HS: Has Jean-Claude Van Damme ever Whereupon, given the
people who knowingly engage in or repeat questioned your ability? inflammatory
trade libel lack for a disciplined mind and FD: Only when I was showing him how I do the political posturing,
character and are generally motivated by splits, LOL. And the fact he was such a dead discovery or
greed and/or an insatiable ego. That is at the ringer for me that the producers of Bloodsport
heart of the matter and that is why until they had mistaken old photos of me for him. He
alter that behaviour they will only know and was my ‘mini-me’ considering our size
promote misery and can never truly attain differences but he had real talent as
Frank Dux in
enlightened mastery of any martial art a fighter and don’t let others tell Kimono. "Without
discipline. you, otherwise. He was as doubt, I have lived
seen in Bloodsport drawn an extraordinary life
I must admit that I may have invited this kind and quartered for real. but that is only
of behaviour to target me, given the fact that because I am an
just like what the Gracie family experienced Over my objections, ordinary man who
when they first came to the United States and my attorney felt forced was not afraid to
issued an open challenge to fight anyone to call Van Damme’s venture outside of
anywhere, which is the custom and tradition bona fides in question
my element, but not
before having pre-
of No-Holds-Barred fighters, like us, my open in response to an
pared myself to be
challenge invitation, in 1980, embarrassed attack made on my capable to impro-
others and alienated me. Without any doubt veracity by his vise, adapt and
my challenge exposed some martial art attorney when overcome great
clicks to be made up of what some people submitting a motion challenges."
labelled "paper tigers" unwilling to venture to dismiss the case,
outside their element but still gracing the both sides given to
covers of Black Belt and other popular martial legal posturing. Not
art magazines by denouncing others - “Called us two, personally.
to put up or shut up, by me.” On the stand, in our
litigation over the
I suspect it is behind why the students of one Quest, Van Damme
of my rivals were arrested and convicted for obviously postured further
vandalizing my school and explains why they and attempted to conceal
are gossiping behind my and other Kumite the fact I trained him
champion’s backs. Like Grandmaster, Irving three times a week for
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