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Post: A Bad Time At a Shaolin Kung Fu School
Forum: Martial Arts BS: Fraud, Investigations, Chi, etc.
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Posted by: WowReally
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Some time ago, I left my martial arts training. Mainly because it turned out to be a bad atmosphere. Check this crap out:
(a) they constantly talk bad about other martial art schools. they are not even open to having a nice conversation about other schools.
(b) they constantly talk bad about their current and past students to other students. setting up a somewhat hostile atmosphere between students. So, don’t get on their shit list.
(c) they use intimidation and the threat of social isolation to control some of their students.
(d) they are just a belt factory. constantly pressuring you to test, which costs money. after a certain belt level any testing material costs extra on top of membership fees.
(e) they can’t teach anything more then surface level because (i have discovered) they don’t have the training to deeply teach it to you. though they will claim that they do. they run you through everything they teach fast, then go on not always liking to be asked questions.
(f) they have a group of favorite students, which is just plain stupid behavior. more of a cult atmosphere, which I have been told is common for traditional martial art schools.
(g) the head teacher is hitting his students during demonstrations…saying they were accidents and how tricky that move is. that is up for debate.
(h) the head teacher randomly insults students during class, saying he is joking. Really?
(i) before I left a handful of students incurred injuries at around the same time. possibly related to being accidentally hit by the head instructor or having their pressure points hit?
I am incredibly glad to be out of there, partly because one of the head instructors minions had been harassing me the last few weeks I was there. i got to know the main instructors some and I seriously wonder about their mental stability.
Is what I experienced and observed common within other martial art schools?