It must be a NC thing!

[Budoka 34]

Thomas:

I think this is pretty common. Since I've been with my current instructor(3+ years), we have had at least 5 people misrepresent themselves so that they could learn new technique.

One gentleman explained to my instructor that he had had a falling out with his instructor and that their school was on the verge of collapse. He trained with us for close to a year and then went back and began teaching for his previous instructor!

My instructor says we have to share the art, but it angers me when the local McDojo, on the verge of going under, sends people to steal what my instructor has worked so hard to build.

I know this sounds crazy, but there are over 20 schools in a small area and competition is tight.

:smilejapa

[hakuda]

Mr. Kite: I shutter to think you may be right. I've run into this situation more than I care to. I can't understand what it is, the pine trees, the tobacco fields, or the ACC. There must be something in the water that drives these people to make great claims about what they know and teach. Then when they run out of techniques or ideas, they leach off of genuine schools. This has happened in the dojo I have been with for 7 yrs., at least 3 times in 5 of those years. I too was told to "share the art". I find it hard to know that this person is taking what I hold dear to me and trying to teach it in their own delusional way.

I take solice in the fact that they aren't being taught anything of true value. My instructor has a "special" set of techniques that he "shares" with these type of individuals. Usually. There is one in our dojo now that has our instructor snowed. He is claiming to have had a parting of the ways with his old instructor and has found "the light". Myself and another instructor know better because we have put all of his puzzle pieces together and see the real picture. Our instructor made a comment about this indviduals old instructor 3 or 4 weeks back, needless to say we didn't see him for a couple of weeks after that. I guess we will have to be patient and let his disguise fall off so everyone can see his true intentions.