Originally posted by A.R.K.
And this is the organization that a TKD practitioner needs to belong to so that their Dan is legitimate????? Sounds like 'pay us money and we'll recognize you' to me 
How about an organization that recognizes you for free....Now tha would sound more legitimate to me. No politics, no $$$ incentive...just plain ole respect of ability and time commited!
Well, if you do not wish to be a member of an orginization that is your choice. But once you make a claim of being with an orginization it is your responsibility to back up your claims. And the problem with many free orginization you find on th internet is that they have very low standards and basically just serve as a means of promoting the reps of the members. Like if me and my friends got together and formed the "World Orginization of Master Teachers." and then listed it on our web sites. The title sounds fgood to new folks, and with a lot of people we wouldseem to be legitimate. But it is still jsut a few guys with too much time on our hands trying to get respect from others.
Originally posted by A.R.K.
I have given contact information to quite a few here. Just not some. Mutual respect goes a long way towards free flow of information...and has.
Well, this thread is not supposed to be about any one person or their claims, but since you have once again put your foot in a shoe and announced that it fits, let us look at the above statement.
Who have you shared information with? Why is the name of your teacher such a big secret? I would think people would be proud of their teacher, not act like they are ashamed and hide the information.
Originally posted by A.R.K.
As I've said repeatedly, my Pangainoon was an off-shoot of what was originally Uechi.
When did you start saying that? I can not seem to find any reference to you saying so until after RyuShiKan checked with the well known Pangainoon in Okinawa and finding out that you could not be the rank you claimed with them.
So it is kind of like someone talking about their law degree from Havard, and when someone checks with the famous university saying, "Oh I never said I was a member of
thatschool. I am talking about Bob Harvad's school of law." And of course, then refuses to give any information about Bob Harvard's school of law.
In a martial arts forum, saing Pangainoon is going to naturally make people assume you are talking about the orginization in Okinawa. If I could find a reference to you saying that your orginization was not the one in Okinawa before RyuShiKan made his call, yo might have a better chance of convincing me. That and the fact that you can not seem to give any information about the Pangainoon you do claim to be a member of. Imagine how that looks to the outsider.
And if I knew of any Chinese organizations that were affiliated with that particular discipline I would have sought them out long ago.
