re: RIP Jason David Frank (The OG Green/White Ranger)

Yes that was Tom. At that time he was a Blue Belt under Travis Tooke. If you know the background of the beginning of jits in H-town, Travis was one of the first legit BB’s in town. Tom taught at Rising Sun and like I said he got cross threaded with Jason and started his own thing in Kingwood. I was Tom’s first student at Rising Sun but Tom’s a no-gi guy and I spent a year doing that without even earning a stripe on a White Belt so when he left and came to Kingwood I hooked up with another instructor from Kingwood that did nothing but gi. Ironically we would go back to Rising Sun for a while before Jason had a falling out with him and we opened our own place on 1960. That seems like an eternity ago.

So actually Jason had issues with 2 instructors. Like I said, drama followed the guy.