Sensei Al & Co. trolled us into getting a free SAMBO seminar. Those bastards!

[M-Tri]

kempofist, where are you with that tape????

[Lu Tze]

Which is exactly what will happen to any video evidence that gets posted.

True, but they can't pull that bullshit where it counts, here.

[MSphinx]

This whole thing just gets more stupid as it time goes by.

[Kid Miracleman]

Goddammit, now Sensei Al is calling SAMBOSTEVE a liar. What the hell? What the hell is wrong with this man? Is Al Perry for real? Why is he doing this? I just don't get it. How can a person get like this? He's hopeless, completely hopeless. A 57-year-old fart with the brains of a 13-year-old who just keeps piling on lie after lie after lie.

What a shitload of fuck this guy is. Sensei Al Perry a fraud, a liar, and a coward.

Fuck this guy. Fuck him right in the ear with a bloody frozen tampon popsicle.

[Jack Rusher]

If this does turn out to be a brilliant troll by a 15 year old, can we send Uri Shatil to beat his ass?

[Ronin.74]

Goddammit, now Sensei Al is calling SAMBOSTEVE a liar. What the hell? What the hell is wrong with this man? Is Al Perry for real? Why is he doing this? I just don't get it. How can a person get like this? He's hopeless, completely hopeless. A 57-year-old fart with the brains of a 13-year-old who just keeps piling on lie after lie after lie.

What a shitload of fuck this guy is. Sensei Al Perry a fraud, a liar, and a coward.

Fuck this guy. Fuck him right in the ear with a bloody frozen tampon popsicle.

Which, incedentally, is an actual flavor in Japan.

[sambosteve]

This is what I wrote...essentially...

Hey guys,

I have no vested interest in this, I had not met or known anyone involved in this until today, and I am not a member of the BJJ community. I really could care less about all the stuff that led up to this challenge. I was simply asked by the mods at bullshido to ref a fight because I was in NYC and have ref experience...and was objective.

I have no reason to lie...just as many of you have no reason to believe me (I understand that). All I know Is I wasted my Sunday afternoon for a fight with guys that did not show up.

I got to Fighthouse at 12:45pm. Chatted with Peggy (the owner) until about 1:15pm when Mikey and his crew showed up. Ming was there as well. As was Jack. We all discussed the challenge with Peggy. She knew I was the referee.

Peggy (and Edgar, the other owner) and I go way back...about 10 years in the NYC martial arts scene. I used to train at Fighthouse many years ago. We have kept in touch since. In fact, when I came in, she said "Sorry, I have no kurtka for sale"...LOL.

At 1:45pm, still nobody showed up. So, I offered to do a sambo class for the guys to make up for the wasted trip. We spoke to Peggy, told her nobody showed up for the fight, but that we would be waiting if they did. Mikey paid Peggy extra mat fees so the guys could roll with me. Including mine.

At about 2pm, some guys left, but meyself, Mikey, Ming, Jack, and some other guys from Mikey's school I had just met started working out on the mats. Everytime people came in the gym (we were in view of the front door) we stopped to see if thjey were looking for anyone. At 3pm we stopped our sambo work out. Got changed and left by 3:30pm.

There is no way anyone could miss us. Peggy and Edgar knew we were waiting for people to arrive. They would have pointed me out to anyone that asked...or told me people were looking for us. Second, the place is not huge. It is a large open room with a ring in the center. We saw everyone that that came and left. People could easily see us working out as well. At one point, Kempofist (I think) went outside to see if Al's guys might be there. No luck.

All this is videotaped on several cameras...with clocks, timestamps, us looking bored, etc...even the sambo workout.

Again, I have absolutely no reason to lie. All I know is that I spent an afternoon waiting for people to show up and they never did.

AND, when I got home, I called Fighthouse to see if anyone came after we left. No luck again.

[whybother]

I called it. I'll tell you what to think -- Sensei Al is obviously a charlatan. All it would have taken to put this whole thing to rest was for him to say who he trained with. A name. He couldn't provide a name. Who in BJJ can't do that? Probably he trained with someone reputable and maybe earned a blue belt, but couldn't say who that was since he knew that checking would reveal he wasn't what he claimed.

[Jack Rusher]

All I know Is I wasted my Sunday afternoon for a fight with guys that did not show up.

I'd like to re-iterate that your sambo seminar was the saving grace of this fiasco. Thanks, again.

[Ronin.74]

So now several posters over there have taken to repeatedly posting Sambo Steve's account of today's event. While one of the Mod's has to repeatedly go in and remove it. LOL

[plasma]

Sensei Al posted at Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:25 am which converted to EST is Sun Dec 02, 7:25pm. Therefore there is NO way he was at the fighthouse after you. He couldn't get back to MD so quickly.

[sambosteve]

Jack, it was great to meet you. Definitely come by to work out sometime :)

[sambosteve]

LOL @ reposting my post endlessly...

[M-Tri]

Sensei Al posted at Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:25 am which converted to EST is Sun Dec 02, 7:25pm. Therefore there is NO way he was at the fighthouse after you. He couldn't get back to MD so quickly.

yeah, he didn't go. lol



I forgot you were in maryland bro, how far are you from baltimore, because it looks like I will now be down there in the spring for a grand-opening

[plasma]

BTW If someone can type it up in a corhent timeline with approciate links and back story. This smells like a front page news article.