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Speaking like a fortune cookie does not make you anything but a fortune cookie speaking dope.
You are a wannabe.
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Speaking like a fortune cookie does not make you anything but a fortune cookie speaking dope.
Trying to stay within the bounds of the rules against fraudbusting here ... it's possible that a lot of the issues you're seeing with MMGF's understanding may go back to his previous head instructor.
*(Feel free to PM me for details.)
No bad blood. I never heard of the guy before you mentioned him. I just did some research in order to get an idea of where you were coming from.But I admire your efforts to bash the man privately in secret like a ninja in hiding. You must really have some bad blood with this guy. "Why?" is the question. But anyway, I don't have to defend GM Santella's honor. He's fully capable of handling himself. But I will point out the fact of what you're secretly trying to do here. If that is your prerogative, then go right ahead.
I won't stop you.
BJJ quality control (aka BJJ police). You should know it.You know, I sent a PM to DaleDugas offering to meetup with him in person (not to fight, but to talk peacefully) regarding GM Santella and some of the other guys I've trained with. GM Santella and I do not live very far from Dale, and neither one of us are very hard to find. You will see GM Santella's school (and off-shoot schools affiliated with it) advertised on the side of public buses, park benches, billboards and signs throughout Florida, and although his address is open to the public (the doors are always open), I don't think anyone I know has ever once challenged his authenticity. But anyways, I digress, as I'm no longer a member of that gym.
But I admire your efforts to bash the man privately in secret like a ninja in hiding. You must really have some bad blood with this guy. "Why?" is the question. But anyway, I don't have to defend GM Santella's honor. He's fully capable of handling himself. But I will point out the fact of what you're secretly trying to do here. If that is your prerogative, then go right ahead. I won't stop you.
Thank you. I had been trying to figure this out.So in total (before teaching on your own in 2012):
-2 months TKD (1991)
-6 months Karate (1999)
-4 classes Fencing (2000)
-5 years Wing Chun (2000-2005)
-5 years MMA + FMA (2005-2010)
I don't feel like this is enough training to start your own style. I think the best thing for you is to find a good Wing Chun Sifu and finish your training. Then find a good teacher in another martial art and complete your training in that. Once you have reached a high level of skill in 3-4 martial arts, then create your own.
"FMA uses katana-type swords..."
Is that what I said? Perhaps I should have said "katana-like," though I doubt it would've made any difference what I said since people will only interpret words from their own personal perspectives. But I stand by what I said, regardless. Again, I am not an expert at FMA (for the 6th or 7th time), so I don't know the FMA term for such blades. To me, they looked like katanas back in the day. All I know is what I said before. "FMA uses katana-type swords, but they use them very differently as opposed to their JMA counterparts." That is what I said, you are correct and I stand by that statement. If you want a better answer, ask someone else who does FMA.
BJJ quality control (aka BJJ police). You should know it.
Tony is just investigating. Nothing personal, I guess.
In fact, other martial artists and masters have travelled all around the world from Hawaii, Japan, Brazil and other countries just to train at GM Santella's school. In regards to Brazilian Jiujitsu it is very possible that a few BJJ black-belt holders or masters visited S.D.S.I. in order to train with GM Santella, and also very possible that some of them stayed at S.D.S.I. afterwards to teach BJJ classes at GM Santella's gym. There are many rooms in that dojo where many different classes are being taught by certified instructors. It's almost comparable to an early-era Jing Mo institute, with several masters of different styles all teaching their own unique systems.
Probably not.Does this mean the train wreck is almost over?
The way I see it, if you never learn to cook Chinese food properly, and then never learn to cook Italian food properly, and then dabble in some Korean cooking for 6 months, you wind up with a bad case of salmonella, and not good food.Thank you. I had been trying to figure this out.
I have more than his entire training time in just one art, and I still would feel like a fraud teaching it.
So in total (before teaching on your own in 2012):
-2 months TKD (1991)
-6 months Karate (1999)
-4 classes Fencing (2000)
-5 years Wing Chun (2000-2005)
-5 years MMA + FMA (2005-2010)
I don't feel like this is enough training to start your own style. I think the best thing for you is to find a good Wing Chun Sifu and finish your training. Then find a good teacher in another martial art and complete your training in that. Once you have reached a high level of skill in 3-4 martial arts, then create your own.
I think I can understand where Dr. Dugas is coming from... to see someone making claims that are contradictory and VERY ostentatious are bothersome and irritating.
Contradictory, maybe on some levels, yes. But ostentatious? Really? I don't think that's fair. Ostentatious implies saying things in order to seek attention by boasting or showboating. A lot of skeptic remarks were made and questions were asked simply because I wasn't showing off or saying anything. I got scrutinized for it and called a fraud. All I did was answer the questions that were asked. Now you say I'm being VERY ostentatious and bothersome?
You know, I actually really thought about exactly what adjective to use in that sentence (I really am putting too much effort into this whole thing ... God only knows why?) and after reading almost all of the posts in your three (four?) threads, that was the one word that really jumped out at me.
Now I was not an English major (my wife was the Phi Beta Kappa English major) so maybe I am wrong but in my opinion (and I am not calling you a fraud or fake or anything, not even a bad person) you seem to have been very ostentatious in your threads.
Just my opinion but it might be one of the reasons you seem to have drawn as much fire as you have here.