May 11,2005


Greetings Mr.Rob Castro,

this letter is in regards to our recent telephone conversation
regarding Tony"The Tiger"Lopez,
and Jessy Lopez Sr. dating back to May 5,2005. First, I'd like to
express that your poor attitude concerning the misuse of both of
these very reputable person's names is extremely direspectful and is
highly distasteful to all parties concerned. Your unwillingness to
support the Tony"The Tiger"Lopez Boxing Seminar on May 14,2005, is a
sign of your total disrespect towards this man, and shows that you
are not willing to hold yourself accountable for your deceptive,
bad, and misleading marketing tactics.
How dare you use this man's name in vain over a long period of
time, and not feel that you do not owe this man a formal public
apology, along with some form of financial reimbursement or
compensation as well.
Your arrogancy is utterly despicable Mr.Castro. What you have done
and continue to do in regards to misrepresenting me, Jessy Lopez
Sr., Tony"The Tiger"Lopez, Grandmaster Angel Cabales, Dan Inosanto,
Bruce Lee and other's, is totally dishonorable and is extremely
unbecoming of a true martial artist.
I am personally offended, and I am ashamed to have been your
primary martial arts teacher,
and for these reasons, I feel strongly, that it is my personal duty
to reprimand you in regards to the ambiguous, misleading and false
information that you have presented to the world martial arts
community. Essentially, what you have been doing Mr.Castro is, you
have been releasing untrue or shady information about your martial
arts background. What you are doing now, and have been doing, is
within the legal world called "Plagiarism". To plagiarise means to:
steal and use(the ideas or writings of another) as ones own.
There are serious legal consequences that comes along with one who
willingly and knowingly plagiarises another person(s) material or
ideas. This, Mr. Castro you have most assuredly done.
Let me further explain just how you have fallen into the category
of being a plagiarist.
As we investigate the style of martial arts you claim that you
invented known as "ESKABO DAAN" we have encountered some serious
flaws or defects. Your creation story about your style of Escrima
states the following: Grandmaster Rob Castro's philosophy: E is for
Escrima,
S is for Serrada from Grandmaster Angel Cabales and Master Anthony
Davis, K is for Kali from Master Danny Inosanto, A is for Arnis from
Grandmaster Ernesto Presas, B is for Boxing from Champion Tony"The
Tiger"Lopez, and Thai Boxing from Master Anthony Davis, and O is for
Jeet Kune Do from Bruce Lee. 'Daan' means "The Way" in Tagalog.
Now, from my memory recall you've only studied the arts of
Escrima and Serrada primarily under one instructor, and that one
instructor just happens to be me. Incidentally, Escrima and Serrada
are one and the same art form known as(Serrada Escrima) and are not
two seperate arts. To my knowledge, you hold no legitimate rank in
the art of Serrada Escrima that has been awarded to you directly
from the late Grandmaster Angel Cabales. All of your instructor
degree's in this particular art comes directly from me. In the
contents of your background information, you give people the false
impression that you trained directly from GM Angel Cabales, this
could not be further from the truth. In reality, your minimal
contact with the Grandmaster always came directly by way of me.
Concerning your background in the art form of Kali that you claim
comes from Danny Inosanto, once again to my knowledge, you have
never met nor trained directly from either Dan Inosanto or from any
of his main instructor's. As I am the one who personally knows
Mr.Inosanto by promoting him in seminars as far back as 1980 & 1983,
once more, it is through me that you have acquired any skills in the
art of Kali.
As far as your claim that you learned your Boxing skills from ex-
3-time World Boxing Champion Tony"The Tiger"Lopez, you and I both
know that you have never even met the man, let alone, have you ever
personally learned boxing from the man. Out of all of the lies that
you have told and documented, thus far, this particular lie is the
most appalling of them all. On your website there appears a
photograph of myself and one of my now deceased graduate
instructor's by the name of Kove Jones. This particular photograph
depicts Mr.Jones and myself holding a certificate together; the
photo is labled :GM Kove Jones & GM Anthony Davis. Basically, in the
photo I am awarding Mr.Jones his well earned Master Diploma Degree.
What puzzles me about this photo is, I am Mr.Jones' chief
instructor, and Mr.Jones is your senior teacher, but yet, somehow
both you and Mr.Jones have now become Grandmasters. Of course
Mr.Jones had nothing to do with this fluke, as this particular
picture was released just after his untimely and unfortunate death.
Lastly, Mr. Castro, you really went overboard when you state that
the letter 'O' in your Escrima system stands for "Jeet Kune Do" from
Bruce Lee. I' m sure that Bruce Lee's widow Linda Lee Cadwell and
Bruce Lee's direct students will dispute this rediculous claim at
some given point in time.
Your only authentic and brief acquaintance with any of Bruce
Lee's original students is with the legendary Prof. Leo T.Fong, whom
again you met through me. I have recently informed Prof. Fong about
his photo's and information concerning him currently appearing on
your website.
His response to being informed of this info., is he wants any and
all information concerning him to be taken off of your site just as
speedily as you removed the information about Tony"The Tiger"Lopez
off of your site. Otherwise, he stated, "Mr.Castro will soon be
hearing from my attorney". In conclusion of this denunciation letter
to you, as of this day { May 11,2005} you are no longer recognized
by me or by any member within the body of my organization as one of
my graduate Instructor's. As of now, the authority granted to you by
me to teach martial arts under the umbrella of my organization known
as "MARTIAL ARTS INTERNATIONAL" is now hereby officially defunct. I,
Anthony Davis, as the founder and President of "MARTIAL ARTS
INTERNATIONAL" do hereby retract and cancel your membership within
my association. As of now Mr.Rob Castro, you are no longer
officially authorized to represent me in any form or fashion. You no
longer have my permission to use the teaching diploma's that I
myself gave to you for the purposes of validating your credentials
as a teacher within the body of my organization known as "MARTIAL
ARTS INTERNATIONAL". Additionally, I am officially requesting that
you discontinue the use of my photo's on your website, as I have not
now, nor have I ever signed any release forms or waivers stating
that you could use any of my materials, images, etc. for the
purposes of your promotional campaigns.

If you do not abide by any of the demands concerning myself and
my products, creations, etc. I, in turn will file a civil lawsuit
against you, and we will meet each other again in a court of law.

Respectfully,


GM Anthony Davis/President
MARTIAL ARTS INTERNATIONAL