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Romeo Courty is a fraud who is teaching martial arts on an island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Because of his remote location he probably thinks he is safe from criticism. He’s wrong.
Courty runs taoistacademy.com, and in his bio he states:

“Romeo had the great opportunity of studying for more than 15 years with a great Chinese Taoist Grandmaster who was also a TCM Doctor and Herbalist. Romeo was adopted as his spiritual son and taught the ancient traditions of seven lineages. Romeo was blessed to receive the title of Lineage Holder in the following disciplines: Tai Ji (Tai Chi), Chi Kung, Qi Gong, Kung Fu, Daoism, Meditation and Feng Shui. Romeo is also experienced in acupressure and Tuina massage (the massage system of TCM).”

and

“Since very early childhood, Romeo has studied with many great Eastern masters around the world”.

So does that mean the ‘Grandmaster’ who ‘spirtually adopted’ him kidnapped him from his real parents and took him around the world to train with many great eastern masters?

Now, I don’t really care if he wants to teach tai chi to senior citizens at the rec center, but he also claims to be teaching combat martial arts which he clearly has no experience in whatsoever, as he states:

“He holds the Grandmaster title in Taoist Tai Ji, Taoist Kung Fu, Taoist Chi Kung, Taoist Qi Gong and Taoist Meditation. He also holds the Master title in Yip chun, Wing chun Kung Fu, Iron Monkey Kung Fu, White Crane Kung Fu, Boran Muay Thai, Aikido, Laido and Kendo.”

I checked for his lineage in Wing Chun which is nonexistant, as are his claims for lineage in any other martial art, real or imagined as seems to be the case for “Iron Monkey Kung Fu”, which is a term Mr. Courty apparently invented himself, unless it means that he’s watched the classic kung fu movie “Iron Monkey”, which, of course, qualifies him as Grandmaster of Flummery.

But the most egregious thing about Mr. Courty’s dog-and-pony show is that he offers ‘spiritual calligraphy’. By this he means he will scribble something on a piece of paper and sell it to you for $40-$80, claiming it is imbibed with his special spiritual protection prayers, or whatever. This racket reminds me of the ‘charms’ (pieces of paper with just about anything written on them) that europeons and arabs used sell in colonial africa, claiming they offered magical protection to the locals, who thought that anyone who could write must be a powerful wizard. In Courty’s case, you’d think he’d be trying to make his ‘spiritual caligraphy’ resemble Kanji, since he is trying to exploit the asian martial arts angle in his scam, but this guy’s calligraphy skills are so feeble he can’t do that so he just scribbles.

Here’s what Courty says about his magical scribbles:

“Each Spiritual Calligraphy is a unique and special peace or art and has an energetic expression like the person the Spiritual Calligraphy is created for. The Spiritual Calligraphy has two energetic states, sleeping and awake. In each state there is an energetic expression, in the sleeping state, the energetic expression is blessing ,healing empowering balancing and good fortune for the person it is created for, while in the awakened state the energetic expression is activated like opening or activating a connection for a more powerful energy. The Way to changing the energetic states of the spiritual calligraphy is the Seal and Order painted in red ink on the right side of each Spiritual Calligraphy. When you tap it, 3 times, the spiritual Calligraphy Seal and Order awaken the energy of the Calligraphy Message.
In this opened, awakened and more powerful energetic state, you can meditate with the Spiritual Calligraphy to get a better and deeper understanding of the message or the messages of the calligraphy to open and balance your path of your spiritual journey. You can also lie down or sit in front of the Calligraphy and ask for a blessing or healing for yourself or a loved one.
After you finished tap it 3 times and say 3 times thank you. Than the Calligraphy goes back into his sleeping state.”

Weird. Why would I want my magic scribbles to be sleeping at all anyway?? I want them to be awake protecting me from charlatans like Mr. Courty at all hours of the day!

Now, despite Mr. Courty’s lengthy claims of being the badess mofo in martial arts since Mr. Myagi, I don’t find his claims to be particularly intimidating. And even though I have no training in any martial arts whatsoever, and only became interested in martial arts since the rise of MMA, of which I am a rabid fan, I am so disgusted and offended by frauds like Mr. Courty that I am going to issue him a challenge to an MMA fight with me. Despite the fact that I’m a two-pack-a-day 43-year old smoker, I think I can knock this guy on his ass in the ten or twenty seconds I’m able to physically go full steam until I wind up wheezing and coughing from my sheer lack of athleticism. I’ll let you guys know if Romeo, oh Romeo, decides to accept my challenge, and the results if the fight ever happens. In the mean time, I urge all anti-Bullshido crusaders to give this goof a piece of their minds!

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First read ALL of the posts in this thread:
http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=57547

Second:
You need to prove he’s a fraud with empirical evidence. Saying look this is “obvious magic bullcrap” is not enough.

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http://taoistacademy.com/

He’s pretty brief on the specifics of his training. I’d really like to hear him expound on the difference between chi-kung and qi-gong. From his over-reliance on the term “Taoist”, I wonder if his experience comes from the Taoist Tai Chi Society (a charitable organization started in Canada, that teaches … very soft … tai chi).

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FYI: I did read all the stickys before I posted. As far as the word ‘fraud’ goes, magic and the selling of magical trinkets perfectly qualifies, as the dictionary states that fraud means:

“wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.”

I did not claim his racket is criminal, but it is definitely ‘wrongful’. Why? Because I say so. Prove ME wrong… As for ‘empirical evidence’, do you really think I’m going to shell out $40-$80 for a piece of paper with a magic scribble just to satisfy some guy who thinks I need to in order to post on a webforum?

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incidentally I’ve looked over the FAQ here and there is nothing explaining when/how my training wheels might come off enabling my posts to be immediately posted rather than waiting for moderator approval. I think some work needs to be done in communication here, because I’m not finding this place to be very user friendly!

“Quick Reply” indeed…

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[QUOTE=stirner;2805461]FYI: I did read all the stickys before I posted. As far as the word ‘fraud’ goes, magic and the selling of magical trinkets perfectly qualifies, as the dictionary states that fraud means:

“wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.”[/quote]Oh, you do not understand legalities and law. You need to PROVE he is a fraud with evidence. Now, I am the resident pedant, if you really want to argue usage and definitions we can. I’m telling you how this area works.

I did not claim his racket is criminal, but it is definitely ‘wrongful’. Why? Because I say so. Prove ME wrong… As for ‘empirical evidence’, do you really think I’m going to shell out $40-$80 for a piece of paper with a magic scribble just to satisfy some guy who thinks I need to in order to post on a webforum?
In this area that is exactly what people do on this website. So, no, that means you didn’t read the rules.

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[QUOTE=stirner;2805463]incidentally I’ve looked over the FAQ here and there is nothing explaining when/how my training wheels might come off enabling my posts to be immediately posted rather than waiting for moderator approval. I think some work needs to be done in communication here, because I’m not finding this place to be very user friendly!

“Quick Reply” indeed…[/QUOTE]

The way you’re going on, you should be glad of the training wheels.
Nothing in your posts suggests you read the FAQS.

This guy may be a fraud. You are making the assertion YOU back it up.
Get in touch with him. Ask him questions. The ‘spiritual writing’ stuff is almost by the by. No evidence either way will be much better than anecdotal.

His claims of lineage etc are something that can to some degree be pursued so get to it and good luck.

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Well I did read the rules before I posted, and I’ve read them twice since, whether you think so or not. Since I did not accuse anyone of 'buggering the vienna boys choir", I do not need to provide any of the criteria listed that would be required if I had accused someone of “buggering the vienna boys choir”, according to the rules.

If you want to go buy the guy’s magical scribbles and help out this investigation, please do so. I don’t have the funds to do it myself, but there is no reason I should not be able to post the information about the fraudster that I did post. I stand by my accusation of fraud, and if you or Courty or anyone else would like to sue me for that, I would relish the opportunity to legally defend myself. In lieu of that, I respectfully request that, while I appreciate that you are so far not censoring me and allowing me to post, you quit harping on things inappropriately. Thanks in advance!

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excuse me Resonance10 but I have read a lot of threads here in which the Bullshido forum community helps gather the kind of ‘evidence’ you referred to, as a collaborative effort. Personally, I don’t need that kind of evidence to reach my conclusions, but if you do, then go find it. I posted my feelings on the matter and that’s really all I have to say on the matter at this time.

As for me being ‘glad of the training wheels’, how exactly does a delay in my posts showing up have any bearing on the content of my posts? You may think I need Bullshido training wheels, but I’m quite sure I have vast multiples of experience in webforum debating and its many modem-derived precursors than you, or anyone else here for that matter, so why not drop the feeble attempt at cyber intimidation, hey fellas?

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[QUOTE=stirner;2805466]while I appreciate that you are so far not censoring me and allowing me to post, you quit harping on things inappropriately. Thanks in advance![/QUOTE]You aren’t following the rules of this subforum. So, it is my job to HARP on your inappropriate posts.

Better yet, I’ll just do this…Bye.

Now, please continue to cry about intimidation and how YOU don’t have to follow rules. I’ll just sit here and laugh at your irony and hypocrisy.

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And by the way, I’ve been reading Bullshido’s forum off and on for years, but have never registered an account until now because I never had anything to contribute until now. Now I’ve finally sniffed out some nefarious bullshido and thought my contributions would be welcomed. I find it hard to believe anything ever gets done around here if this is the way you guys draconially interrogate a person trying to help ‘the cause’. Now I am beginning to suspect this ‘cause’ has been mismanaged and has lost its way at some point.

But I’ll tell you what, if nobody replies to this thread with ‘thanks’, or ‘that was helpful’, or even ‘that was interesting’, I will remove the thread by my own accord. I’ll give it three days (assuming somebody with the power to do so doesn’t delete or move it before then). Because the last thing I want to do is waste my valuable time where I am not wanted.

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Original Title:

Romeo Courty of taoistacademy.com - Fraud, liar, twit
[QUOTE=stirner;2805469]And by the way, I’ve been reading Bullshido’s forum off and on for years, but have never registered an account until now because I never had anything to contribute until now. [/quote] No, no you haven’t.

Now I’ve finally sniffed out some nefarious bullshido and thought my contributions would be welcomed.
You’ve read for years, but NEVER witnessed anyone get corrected on how to start a MABS thread? See my answer above.

But I’ll tell you what, if nobody replies to this thread with ‘thanks’, or ‘that was helpful’, or even ‘that was interesting’, I will remove the thread by my own accord. I’ll give it three days (assuming somebody with the power to do so doesn’t delete or move it before then). Because the last thing I want to do is waste my valuable time where I am not wanted.
You go ahead and try. See my first response?

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Cry? you wish, mister. I could not care less about you or this forum if your attitude is indicative of the atmosphere here. I have not come across rude to you, and perhaps that’s because I’m a hell of a lot more mature than you likely ever will be. Here’s a tip: if someone comes to your forum, and they’re not there to cause trouble, be nice. If you want to act the way you just did, why not go find Call of Duty chat room and have fun with the high-pitched voices calling you all the names you remember from the schoolyard…

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No wish, I am using your own words. Saying “I will take my ball and go home” is crying.

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By the way, I never said I didn’t have to follow rules. You seem to like to make up rules and arbitrarily prattle on about them without any means of enforcement, go right ahead. Is there a reason you’re afraid to delete this thread and instead pick up your marbles and run off in a huff?

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[QUOTE=It is Fake;2805472]No wish, I am using your own words. Saying “I will take my ball and go home” is crying.[/QUOTE]

which is exactly what you did when you said “Bye”… but you couldn’t even stand by your own indignation. Typical.

Ok Faker, if you really want to continue this conversation even after you just said you didn’t, lets do that then. Please make up your mind.

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changing the thread’s name? How passive aggressive of you. Why are you so upset at losing a war of words. Martial arts is supposed to help you keep cool, you know… not let that over-inflated ego of yours get the best of you. You got a lot of work to do. How exactly did someone like you get to be ‘Staff’ around here anyway? The bar must be set pretty low!

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I’m just wondering when you’ll lose the guts to keep letting my posts get through because there’s no way a guy like you can handle getting “pwned” like this, as the kiddies like to say…

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incidentally i can hit the plus and minus ratings too! isn’t being passive aggressive fun?

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[QUOTE=stirner;2805473]By the way, I never said I didn’t have to follow rules.[/quote]Neither did I. So, that negates this claim:

You seem to like to make up rules and arbitrarily prattle on about them
Just like you make up what I stated?

without any means of enforcement, go right ahead.
Really? How many posts do you have right now? Zero.
What’s the new title of your thread?
I have vast multiples of experience in webforum debating more than you.
Is you thread in MABS any more?
Nope.

Apparently, something is happening, but if you want to pretend there is no enforcement okay.

Is there a reason you’re afraid to delete this thread and instead pick up your marbles and run off in a huff?
Irony

LOL@thebaby, Bye means goodbye to the MABS subforum and the title of your thread. Now, get to the deleting of your thread and “taking your marbles and going home.”