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Old 10-14-2002, 07:00 AM   #18
Bruce Baker
Dojo: LBI Aikikai/LBI ,NJ
Location: Barnegaat, NJ
Join Date: Sep 2001
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It sounds like a lot of hype for this teacher to expand his business, we have a simular case of crossover here.

For years, a fellow who calls himself Kum Sung, teaches Tae Kwon Do, but then he enlists people from other styles with black belts, or brown belts to come to teach in his facility, or to train to be black belts in his style.

With this diversity of membership, he advertises that his training covers all styles of martial arts withing the training of his style. Many of his techniques are based on years of study, taking what works in other styles, and there is some martial arts attitude that translates into good techniques, but the validity of advertising for being certified in Aikido, or Judo, or Jujitsu is still based upon international recognition of a certificate.

He is another poser who sometimes appears in Black Belt Magazine, and his son has been a stunt double for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies.

I thought that your investigation and talk with this person might reveal who certified him to teach, and that would lead to either bring in outside authorities or not.

Let it go.

The way of the world is to take shortcuts. Once those who are enamored with the glitz of quick training have run the gamut, the craze will fade as they find better instruction. If it does not, then this charlatan will have to find accredited people who will teach for him, and he will learn to correct his style ... just as our local charlatan has had to do to keep his students

Last edited by Bruce Baker : 10-14-2002 at 07:03 AM.
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