The buddhist maffia is run by wise guys.
ah, you must be a Don in their ranks then 
(just kidding btw)… reminds me of Donnie Brasco, but with a Better Tomorrow undertone…
david
Kung Lek has completely avoided this thread.
I suppose he thinks he’s untouchable.
God, that was cheesy. I feel somewhat ashamed.
Wait. Would the buddha have let emotion have overcome him in the midst of a bribe situation? Would buddha have let destructive thoughts interfere with a lucrative protection scam?
Clearly, no.
What are you looking at?:mad:
KC
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RD
R U sum kinda wise guy? :mad:
are we the only ones doing anything here (or the only incredibly sad ppl here)?
david
No, not me
I just grew up in a Mob town, and I know where many of the body’s are buried!!!
Thanks for the clarification, RD.
Sa’d all right!!
Howz the Buddhist Mafia mission to destroy all the CMD practitioners going?
I’m sure Kung Lek will read this sooner or later… There’s about as much usless cr@p here as ther is in the Li Lian Jie thread after all!
david
Buddhist Mafia vs. CMQ
Well, I MIGHT have a taker on a challenge. He claims he’s not in CMQ, but speaks in all the CMQ catchphrases(cultspeak). We’ll see if he actually shows up.
Mostly, I don’t care to destroy all the practitioners, just debunk the stuff they put out and try to force them to be honest about their martial arts.
i think being honest about your background is important also. After seing those sites it makes me realise how lucky i am to have a good Sifu 
Thankfully our background is very clear.
This whole McKwoon thing is quite scary as we don’t have it here in the UK (hope it don’t spread neither!).
I liked how you said:Mostly, I don’t care to destroy all the practitioners , so you’ll leave a few then eh?
just having fun,
david
Well,using the tenets of the buddhist maffia, I could not destroy them all. They’d just come back as various forms of mudskipper.
Have I mentioned that mainstream buddhists aren’t proud of the buddhist mafia?
I would have guessed that KC!
Is it kinda like the church and the Knights Templar? (slightly more OT: check out a movice called ‘Sanctuary’ with Mark Dacascos in it. It has to do with the church ‘knights’ kinda).
does a mudskipper know better MA’s though?
david
Originally posted by dezhen2001
This whole McKwoon thing is quite scary as we don’t have it here in the UK
David has had a sheltered life. Believe me, they are here.
yup, i had a sheltered childhood… making up for it now though!
I know there are pretty bad schools around, but i’ve never seen anything quite on the ‘kung fu’/quasi-religious cult scale as some of those mentioned before! Have you? Stoke must be a mad bad place if you have
Anyway, food time!
laterz,
david
Originally posted by dezhen2001
Stoke must be a mad bad place
It’s like the Bronx with more Oatcakes!!!
kinda like the ghetto that is Wolverhampton then, but with more oatcakes 
I’d be interested to hear what you rate as a McKwoon her ein the UK. If u don’t wanna post it, you can always PM me
david
I count a McKwoon / McDojo as a school that:
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Teaches improper methods/theory or a watered down version of a style.
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A school so commercialised that you have to shell out £60 for pads from them, even though you can get the same elsewhere for £40, or one that charges obscene amounts for gradings even though you do them in your class time.
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One that mixes styles into an agglomeration [sp?] of sh!te. For example: “U.S. Navy Seal Wing Chun, as taught by Grandmaster Seagal”
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A school where you have to worship Sifu, or one that makes ridiculous claims.
[Any one will classify, but the more the merrier!]
In the UK, I’ve seen 1, 2 and 3, never 4. So we’re almost on our way to a full house!
[Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now voice]
Remember… it’s only a matter of time…
good post DS
I know what you mean about 1, 2 and 3. But what i was trying to say is that it’s nowhere near the scale of something like Temple Kung Fu, CMD etc. (at least not yet!).
!: But wouldn’t this cover all modern common MA’s like Karate, TKD, Ju Jistsu etc. as well? All those have been watered down or ‘modified’ over the years to fit the competitive format.
2: i can see where your coming from. I guess things like huge membership fees etc. are also pretty bad! We pay a membership, but get discounts on seminars and a bi-monthly magazine (Qi Magazine - ever seen it?) as well as a training shirt all as part of that. So it works out pretty well imo.
3: I’ve seen a lot of that, especially with Wing Chun! ‘modified’ wing chun, ‘street’ Wing Chun blah blah… To me it either is or it isn’t
4: haven’t seen yet, but would like to see what happens when someone does make ridiculous claims
Interesting, let’s wait and see what happens in the next 5 years!
david
But wouldn’t this cover all modern common MA’s like Karate, TKD, Ju Jitsu etc. as well? All those have been watered down or ‘modified’ over the years to fit the competitive format
Yep, pretty much. From my experience, most Karate is Bullcrap, most TKD is ineffective and Ju-jitsu badly taught. There are still some good schools out there, but most are belt-factories that teach people what they would like to learn, for example; you progress to the next belt rapidly, giving a false sense of achievement, and bad technique is just passed over. At the end of the day, most people just want to become a black belt.
Me personally, I never want to make black-belt - unless I am 100% positive that I have earned it. Anything else and you’re cheating yourself.
Qi Magazine - ever seen it?
'Fraid not. I’m not really into internal stuff. I’d like to be, but I really know nothing about it besides the basics.
‘street’ Wing Chun
The one I really like is when Martial Arts books have a “self-defence” section at the back. What, is the martial art supposed to teach you Origami, with self-defence as a side-effect?!! :rolleyes:
As of now, we don’t have anything like OYD, butbelieve me, it’s on it’s way… 
BTW: Nice thread!!