I would like to kindly make an inquiry into an individual whom I used to train under. I know you probably get bogged down with tons of crap about fakes and phonies, but this guy is pacing around under the title of Grandmaster and Dali Seng Shi (all deemed by himself), and promoting his "White Tiger" and Moo Temple system (Kempo stuff he shamelessly claims to have designed by himself), while at the same time denying and disrespecting all of his past teachers and or individuals he trained with in the past who influenced him. I don't even know who they are.
1) Name: Olaf Simon (A.K.A in his studios: Grandmaster Simon, Dali Seng Shi Lama, 33 Vulnerable Generation of the Tookien Temple (that Fujian provinces Shaolin temple writtn in bad phonetics)
2) School: Temple Kungfu (primarily in Canada)
3) Trained under or with Ed Parker for some unknown amount of time perhaps absorbing a lot of knowledge. He flagrantly disregards as having learned anything useful from Ed Parker, and moreover disrespects the man as having lacked any real skill.
4) Fails to acknowledge any of his past teachers or influences. To this day I don't know what it is that I studied for 5 years. I've heard kempo looking but I don't even know. Its shame.
5) Apparently was involved with a lot of the US originals in MA circuit in the 60's
6) Claims to have co-managed some Long Beach tournaments with Ed Parker
7)In the 70's use to run some schools in Canada called Simon's Karate
8) Then caught "Shaolin" fever and repackaged everything marketing it purely as Northern and Southern Chinese kungfu (???).
9) He claims to be the 33rd generation inheritor of the Tookien Temple in China(i.e. Fujian provinces Shaolin Temple; thats the famous Southern temple)
10) In a court deposition (not related to fraudulent practices) he admitted to never going to China, inventing all of his titles and disrespecting a lot of teachers in the various Japanese and Chinese styles.
11) Now he is taking a lot of heat in Canada, but there is no one with enough authoritative information from his earlier days to call him on it.
12) Overall he is just a real disrespectful individual with an ego to go with it. He is building a "Temple" like fortress with the millions he has made from his studios somewhere in Canada for his Neo Chan Buddhist followers to visit. Almost cult like.
Can someone help me learn more about this individuals background, so I can learn more about the influecnes in my past training. Could you kindly help me spread this around.
Thanks and best regards,
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Background: I've been working in Shanghai now for (5 years now) and studying Seven Star Praying Mantis