Tom:
Thank you for the time and effort! Please don’t get too caught up in people’s impatience and/or frustration, especially since I will bet my last Guinness that the responses from SNBS will not come anywhere close to addressing the questions asked. He likely will answer questions not asked or side-step the real question or possibly even lie (feigned shock!) Or I could wake up in Oz tomorrow, log onto to Bullshido and see the following:
Tom: Is it true that nobody in the FSD family has certified training of a substantive nature, outside FSD, that would confer appropriately the titles Grandmaster and Sifu to the instructors.
SNBS: You are absolutely right Tom. My dad took a few weeks worth of seminars from James Demille and then decided to teach the system called Wing Chun Do, even though he hadn’t learned the whole system. When JD found out about this and didn’t approve of it we decided to change the name to FSD but continue to teach an abbreviated/bastardized version of Wing Chun Do, just as before. A man has got to eat!
Tom:
Is it true that at a seminar, FSD students were instructed to smell dog shit from a pail?
SNBS: Actually, it was a bucket Tom. This was a test of character, being able to overcome adverse conditions that are counterintuitive to common sense and thousands of years of evolution of the human nervous system. Can any other system claim that type of dedication and transcendance of its students?
Tom: Many people have compared the FSD culture to that of a cult. Would you agree?
SNBS: Of course it is Tom. Do you know how much money can be made by running a cult? Based on the principle of efficiency and economoy of motion from our Wing Chun heritage, running a cult like school is the laziest and easiest way to make piles of money. This is an example of implementing your kung fu outside of the martial application. So many other martial arts are one dimensional! Let me provide you with some definitions of a cult and people can judge once and for all that WE ARE a cult and put to rest the rumours floating around that we are not:
Every cult can be defined as a group having all of the following five characteristics:
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It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members (plenty of proof in this and in the other other illustrious FSD threads Tom)
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It forms an elitist totalitarian society. (BBC )
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Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma. (my dad)
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It believes ‘the end justifies the means’ in order to solicit funds recruit people. (already an established fact in FSD, don’t insult me by proving it further Tom)
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Its wealth does not benefit its members or society. (I think my dad’s pagoda is a huge benefit to society-we will try harder to change this so as to be inarguably identified as a cult!)
Krackie says: “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home”, as he clicks his ruby red kung fu slippers. It’s good to be back . . .
