I have some friends who want to sign up at this place, and I don’t know what to tell them. I think my school is a little expensive for them, and this place is pretty cheap + there aren’t any contracts. The whole 10th degree thing throws me off a little, but it looks pretty legit. What do you guys think?
I think this says it all.
Says that he has an artsy friend…:rolleyes:
well, first of all if you think your school is better maybe you should recommend that anyway. Otherwise why don’t you go with them to check it out and see what you think then?
it also looks mostly like a kids school.
My main fear would be that it look slike these gys may take what they do a little too seriously, but osme guys are into that (can we say Qi?)
Originally posted by norther practitioner
Says that he has an artsy friend…:rolleyes:
How do you know it’s not a self-portrait? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Yeah, but they don’t want to actually pay the $$ to go to my school. Apparently good hardcore Kung Fu is too expensive for them.
But I’ll probably go check it out, and the guys at Bullshido said there is a topic somewhere about it, so maybe I can dig that up.
tell them to get their priorities straight, either they pay for good instruction, or they just buy a pair of the pajamas, run around in the park screaming kiais and try to pick up chicks.
Also–is it bad if I think that they are McDojo kind of guys? I don’t know if they’d be all into the hardcore stuff.
And is it bad that part of me wants them to go there, so I can continue to beat their asses on a regular basis? 
Originally posted by Reggie1
And is it bad that part of me wants them to go there, so I can continue to beat their asses on a regular basis?
LOL! Good plan!
what if it backfires and they start kicking your ass!
He’s made up his own martial art. That’s not inherently wrong, but it’s a bad sign when all of your accrediting agencies are bogus. Check out his credentials here.
Anyone can get recognized through the “Martial Arts Hall of Fame” by paying a nominal fee. They accredit alot of charlatans. His Philosphy P.hd is also bogus as it comes from a diploma mill known as the “College of Advanced Education and the Department of Martial Arts Studies”, which is linked to the so called “Martial Arts Hall of Fame”. In fact all of his credentials appear to come from them.
He probably has actually taught most of the agencies he claims to have taught through one or two seminars. I know of two local martial arts schools in Oregon who claim to be teaching Police Departments on the grounds that they have enrolled a police officer as a student at some time in the past. This is a common tactic for marketing a McDojo.
The “various Anti-Terrorist Teams in Central America and the Caribbean” as well as the “United Nations Security Forces; Geneva Switzerland” claims are suspicious because they aren’t verifiable.
Bottom line, he may be a great martial artist, but there are plenty of good teachers who also happen to be honest as well. There’s an old saying about the teacher being more important than the art. Send your friend elsewhere.
Originally posted by red5angel
[B]LOL! Good plan!
what if it backfires and they start kicking your ass! [/B]
Then I’m moving to Alaska.
That’s an awful lot of 5th degree black belts. Usually you get your 10th degree after you are dead.
The “various Anti-Terrorist Teams in Central America and the Caribbean” as well as the “United Nations Security Forces; Geneva Switzerland” claims are suspicious because they aren’t verifiable.
Since the U.N. can’t fight it’s way out of a paper bag he could be their trainer. Who needs these guys when you have a 10th degree black belt knife thrower?
He probably figures that since he invented his own art, he can claim any level of mastery he wants too.
Originally posted by Samurai Jack
[B]He’s made up his own martial art. That’s not inherently wrong, but it’s a bad sign when all of your accrediting agencies are bogus. Check out his credentials here.
Anyone can get recognized through the “Martial Arts Hall of Fame” by paying a nominal fee. They accredit alot of charlatans. His Philosphy P.hd is also bogus as it comes from a diploma mill known as the “College of Advanced Education and the Department of Martial Arts Studies”, which is linked to the so called “Martial Arts Hall of Fame”. In fact all of his credentials appear to come from them.
He probably has actually taught most of the agencies he claims to have taught through one or two seminars. I know of two local martial arts schools in Oregon who claim to be teaching Police Departments on the grounds that they have enrolled a police officer as a student at some time in the past. This is a common tactic for marketing a McDojo.
The “various Anti-Terrorist Teams in Central America and the Caribbean” as well as the “United Nations Security Forces; Geneva Switzerland” claims are suspicious because they aren’t verifiable.
Bottom line, he may be a great martial artist, but there are plenty of good teachers who also happen to be honest as well. There’s an old saying about the teacher being more important than the art. Send your friend elsewhere. [/B]
0wned.
So Reggie?
What “Expensive Hardcore Kung-fu school” do you go to?:rolleyes:
You know there is also something to be said for schools that charge a hell of a lot of money for teaching.
Eastwind:last i checked was 90-100$ a month (toofukin expensive if you ask me)
Tom Ghorings overpriced school of tai chi chuan(need i say more?)
and the McKwoon i was formerly at is now pretty expensive,what is it now like 70-80 dollars a month?.
Maybe these prices are okay for all you rich boys;) .
hehe just pokin at ya,,,,TWS
while cheaper is always more cool, I think a serious martial artist would pay what he felt he had to to get good instruction. I’ve known students who have paid literally hundreds of a dollars a month because not only do they have to pay to learn but they have to travel to meet their instructor, alot of tims by plane.
Money in my opinion is the smallest of all obstacles.
Re: So Reggie?
Originally posted by The Willow Sword
What “Expensive Hardcore Kung-fu school” do you go to?:rolleyes:
Jeff Hughes’ 7* school. I’m not trying to say that I go to some super-elite hardcore school. Just that what our class does is more physically demanding than the other schools I visited. I’ve been on the verge of puking many times during class. But I like that, it’s a really hard workout.
And don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the fact that my school charges as much as it does. But I love the training, so I fork it out all the same.
just pokin at ya reggie
no offense at all. i know you have said you go to jeff hughes before. . He is a good teacher and an honorable guy.
yeah i just wish that i could afford tuition at the places i would like to go. as far as a serious martial artist paying what he/she needed to pay to get good instruction. i say a “WISE” martial artist,bugets him/herself so that they have the food to buy and the rent to pay and so on. 
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Peace,,,TWS
10th degree black belt!!!
I love it! I laughed so hard!
I can’t breath! lololol
Willow Sword–No offense taken here either. 
I knew you were just hacking on me.
I guess my justification to myself for paying as much as I do is the fact that I’m blessed with the extra $$ to be able to spend on something like this. Although I did have to sacrifice my motorcycle…