[Sca-cooks] Japanese (was: What did they..)

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> The martial arts "actor" Steven Seagal is a 7th dan black belt in
> aikido, the only non-Japanese aikidoshi to have attained the rank.
> Initially it was denied him, but he offered a _very_ large donation
> to the Japanese structure of the World Aikido Federation, and then
> they allowed as how he might be sufficiently skilled after all.
>
<<elric>> one even better was a fella in the martial arts business (would
never credit him with the term instructor) named Steven Hayes. He used to
advertise he was the only American authorized by the Ninga Clans as a Ninga
in the United States. It finally came out he was giving half of his earnings
of sales of Ninga stuff and classes to a old Japanese gentleman in Japan who
ran a school who claimed to be Ninga. Geese!! :) THe beauty of Americans is
they will buy nearly anything in the martial arts ifyou calim your high
enough dan:)

YIS, Elric