Garrett is nothing more than a second or third dan (at best) under the Matsumura Seito system of Soken.

He, too, jumped on the Garcia bandwagon by sanctioning Garcia as the true head of Soken’s Matsumura Seito system.

Garrett received his sixth dan from Ray Gonthier, a man who never studied under Soken.

Garrett started karate in the spring of 1971, and stayed on Okinawa for less than 18 months.

Garrett claimed, in that short 18-month window, to have learned the whole system and all of Soken’s kata directly from Soken.  How much could he have possibly learned from group lessons in less than 18 months?