No wonder Mat the comic book Sensei hasn't written anything on his faux fitness review site since last Thursday....he's been too busy covering his tracks!
He has taken down the picture he had of his partner, Toshiro the Treadmill Sensei (AKA Aaron Akagi...comic book illustrator) from his site. Not only that, but Mat also deleted any reference to Aaron from his Nifty comics site and his Myspace too. It seems Aaron (Mellow Yellow) Akagi has now become shy and removed his profile on Myspace altogether. Mat has even taken down his movie review site!
According to Mat's emails to me, the Treadmill Sensei had all the fitness experience and Mat was just his helper (good thing too, because Mat doesn't have enough experience to be doing technical evaluations of fitness equipment). If that is true then why take the expert's picture off the site, Mat? Who is going to be doing the technical reviews? Not you I hope!!! Egads, that would be a disaster.... Someone passing himself off as an expert in fitness equipment design when in fact they have no eperience in this area would be perpetrating a huge fraud on the public.
This leads me to my question: Who, and more importantly where is the Treadmill Sensei?
From Mat's email:
"Oh, in regards to your Asian statement: my partner, the Treadmill Sensei, is full Japanese and his family has lived here since the early 1900s. His grandparents (on both sides) and parents were all in the internment camps here in California during WWII (they're from Marin up in Northern California). He has been a repair/service guy since he was either 19 or 20 and just turned 42, and he does most of the review process. Please keep any racist statements about his heritage to a minimum, especially when writing as a representative for Spirit Fitness."
Take care,
-Mat N. (and Toshiro)
http://www.treadmillsensei.com/
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Oh yeah...I almost forgot, I have been receiving a little inside information recently that makes me wonder; where exactly is "The Dojo" anyway? I have not seen any pictures on the Treadmill Sensei website of the Dojo. I can't find anyone who has been there or anyone who has had a fitness product repaired at, or by the Dojo. I also can't seem to find any legitimate fitness repair companies in So. Cal who know of the Dojo or Toshiro the Treadmill Sensei himself. I will be contacting more repair companies and fitness dealers in So. California to try and track down the elusive Dojo. I will keep you updated on what I find out...
Exerpt from the Treadmillsensei.com website:
"One of the things the Treadmill Sensei likes to do from time to time is take on a repair/remanufacturing project that is a bit too difficult for some of the younger Senseis here at the DOJO. To me there is nothing better than being able to take a nearly destroyed treadmill or elliptical and rebuild it to look and perform like new. Having recently done a couple of BladeZ Fitness reviews, I decided to see if I could search out and find a BladeZ treadmill to put back together. "
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An interesting note: 206-339-7022...
This is the phone number for "The Dojo", in So. California, from Comic book boy's site. The problem is that 206 is the area code for Seattle? I looked on the Whitepages online (Yellow pages has no listing) and it says it is an unlisted landline...Hmmmm. Why would you have a business with an unlisted phone number?
Update: I found the Sensei! (or at least the guy whos picture was being pawned off as Sensei)
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=27753057
If you look at his pics you'll see one of him at the drawing board, working on a comic. The picture is appropriately titled "In the Dojo"....I wonder if this is the Dojo Mat "comic book Sensei" Nastos keeps talking about on his site?
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