You MIGHT be a McDojo…
if at tournaments you wear a green sequin gi and do your form to “My Humps” by black eyed peas:D
OR your founding grandmaster is chewbacca;) 
peas and wub, TWS:cool:
You might be a mcdojo if…
the school has a contract that grants them powers of attorney.
Your teacher has the class give each other high five’s after every drill, lol.
You might be a mcdojo if…
All of your forms open with the macarena.
you might be a mcdojo
if you teacher claims to be world champion kata champion the same year chuck norriss was
if you teacher says no stop, switch your feet and throw a punch like this to get the technique to work cause he cant do it free style.
If you have a 3 year guarantee black belt program, lol.
You might be a mcdojo if…
belts come with a KFC coupon thats good for a free fountain soda with purchase of any bucket of chicken.
Mcdojo
This is by far the best thread I have ever read on this forum!!! LMAO:D
You might be a Mcdojo if
yesterdays white belt is todays new Black Belt instructor.
When you 6 year old test’s for his/her 3rd degree black belt.
when you get certificates and badges for loudest kiai, cleanest gi, and you get them for wiping and flushing.
if you wear a superfriends badge next to your countries flag badge beneath the sewing badge and next to the campfire starter badge.
nascar gi.
If you practice chinese, japanese, indo, indian, vietnamese, burmese, laotian, campuchian, brazillian, irish do.
mullets are the predominant hairstyle of all the seniors and the instructor.
12 year old “masters”
You might be a mcdojo if…
The sensei’s gi is tie-dye and has a peace symbol patch.
If ou own 5 school, but never trained in the martial arts a day in your life.
You might be a mcdojo if…
The head instructor is named “Nutsy the Clown”.
Mcdojo
Kind of long but true and I will try and fit it into the Jeffworthy case
You know you are in a Mcdojo when you visit a local school (just cause it’s new and close to your house) meet the head instructor tell him you practice a bit and have some students and the next thing you know he is offering you a contract to be an instructor at his school go on his Black Belt course and bring all your students to his school!!!
true story!!! Mcdojo
:eek:
Maxwang
LOL. Yeah, there is alot of Bullshido around today. I remember reading an article where the guy said something along the lines of “If you believe whats advertised, the United States has more ‘ninja masters’ then Japan.”
Mcdojo
It is such a shame… You have the a holes who are out for money, the posers that try and mystify Kung Fu, the cults, the day care kidie camps, etc…
We (as a CMA comunity) really need to establish a requirement that qualifies a person to open a school.
Personally, I could care less about McDojo’s. Let them make money. 99% of the people who populate those schools would never stick to a real traditional program anyway, so why care? I sy, let the children play, and we can do our own thing, in our own circles.
You know you are in a Mc Dojo when you graduate your “3 week *intoductionary privaite lessons” and are awarded a “White Rope” in a short, but embarasing cerimony infront of all the other students.
No Lie, I was checking out a Karate school in the Chicago’s west suburbs to try and get a handle on how my competition markets themselves, and this is what happened!!
I still have the “White Rope”, I keep it as a soviner of the experiance.
*Introductionary intentionally misspelled (not that I can spell anyway but…)
Gave me an idea
This has inspired me to create a new thread where we can all post our thoughts and discuss the matter of mcdojos, and the general state of martial arts today.
http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42483
back to the joking.
You might be a mcdojo if the instructor has a certificate of mastery signed by a “Mr. Miyagi”.
It’s called legitimate competition. It’s there, but shady people wouldn’t think of it and the factor of “face game” BS is always a constant in trad martial arts.
saving face is a really stupid component in this case cause it get’s abused to the nth degree.
anyway, just wanted to comment seeing as the thread i going that way…