“My entire self-defense system is nullified if the attacker puts his tongue in the wrong position.” -George Dillman

@dennisbarrett6148

9 ай бұрын

He was a non- believer, so....

@jeraldmcclainofficial6005

8 ай бұрын

WOW.

@rossbabcock3790

8 ай бұрын

Don't you hate it when that happens!

@georgeemmons5128

8 ай бұрын

Well his tongue was on his eye teeth and he couldn't see what what was happening?? As If!!!!

@thewanderingsensei

8 ай бұрын

I’m not surprised george dilman says that.

That last guy, James Hydrick, was investigated and exposed by Dan Korem, a journalist and former pro magician. He said that one of the reasons that Hydrick was successful was because of one particular trick. As proof that he could teach others to develop psychic abilities, Hydrick had a few dozen students lie on the floor, concentrate and they would slowly shift the building that they were in on it's foundation. And, it actually happened. It wasn't much, but the building was actually moving. Then, Korem figured it out. This was taking place in Utah during the summer and the building had a metal framework. Hydrick would turn off the air conditioning in the attic and other empty rooms. No body would notice, because they were all in the one room doing the psychic demo and the A/C was going full blast in there. The other rooms would heat up, the metal framework would expand and the building would shift. Hydrick just had to make sure that he had the right timing. Korem said that, in all of his years of investigating frauds, this was one of the most original cons that he ever saw.

@heishinmega

7 ай бұрын

Scooby doo villain level effort

@christopherhall5361

6 ай бұрын

When all this became public, and Hydrick was interviewed about it, he literally said he did it just to see how stupid people in America are and what they're willing to believe

@richardthomas5362

6 ай бұрын

That is quite creative.

@CraigzyRock

6 ай бұрын

That’s hilarious!😆

@BigDaddy-je2nq

6 ай бұрын

Mind games are a part of martial arts, this guy convinced a whole room of people that he moved the building with his mind

Frank Dux is almost certainly the greatest martial arts fraud of all time. I’ll cite a # of examples: 1. He never served in Viet Nam; he enlisted after the war was over. 2. He was never deployed overseas-ever. 3. He received no specialized training-ever. 4. Dux would have us believe that the Government bypassed all the US special forces in order to send him, at 19, on secret missions, I guess due to his Ninja training. 5. He was never awarded the Medal of Honor, or any other medals, as per his official military records. 6. There’s a picture of him wearing the Army Medal of Honor. Dux, in fact, served just over four months active duty in the Marine Corps., not the Army. He claimed the military never explained why. 7. The FBI actually wanted the US Attorney to charge ‘The Secret Man’ with wearing fake military medals, which is against the US Code, aka Stolen Valor. 8. He was, however, referred to a psychological evaluation, for expressing ‘flighty & disconnected’ ideas. 9. He claims to have been appointed as a Russian Army Captain. Say what? 10. He never fought in the Kumite, but, probably, has some, minimal, martial arts training. 11. In fact, no Kumite never even happened in the Bahamas, according to Bahamas’ Minister of Sports. 12. The video of him ‘fighting’ in the Kumite was actually a French martial artist named Philippe Cadoret, competing in Taiwan, in 1986. 13. Mr. Cadoret’s son contacted Dux and threatened a lawsuit, unless he immediately removed the videos, which he did. 14. He claimed to have sold the sword, which he won at the Kumite, in order to rescue a boatload of children, who had been abducted by pirates. Yes, he actually said this! 15. The International Fighting Arts Association, which allegedly sponsored the Kumite, listed Dux’ home address as its international HQ. 16. His Kumite trophy was purchased at a local CA store. 17. No, Dux is not a Ninja. 18. Two friends, Richard Robinson, and Richard Bender, whom Dux asked to lie about having witnessed Dux’ fight in the Kumite, subsequently admitted lying for him and having fabricated the entire story. 19. He defeated 66 people in a tug of war! Yes, he actually said this! 20. He bilked hundreds, possibly thousands, of students out of their hard - earned money. NOT OK. 21. He never worked for the CIA, either directly or indirectly. 22. He claimed to have been personally recruited by the CIA Director, William Casey, in a bathroom. Yes, he actually said this. 23. Dux claims to have been a hit man for the CIA. If even remotely true, he’d never, ever disclose such. 24. Both the CIA & two US Army Generals, actually publicly called out his BS, which is rare for them to do. 25. The ‘Secret Man’, if real, would never publicly discuss his secret agent, black ops assignments. 26. His stories continually change; lies beget lies. 27. Dux has NO background in intelligence. Zip. 28. He claimed to have been gouged by a bayonet in the stomach on one such mission. 29. He claimed to have been recruited to assassinate Steven Segal. Say what, again? 30. His instructor never existed. He got the name Tiger Tanaka form a James Bond movie ‘You Only Live Twice’. 31. Zane Frazier, a legitimate MMA fighter and a real martial artist, body slammed Dux over a dispute regarding money. 32. Dux sued Jean Claude Van Damn, the LA Times, and Soldier of Fortune magazine for liable - all unsuccessful, frivolous lawsuits. 33. Dux allegedly challenged JCVD to fight on the ledge of a 20 - story building. 34. He’s fairly intelligent and is a very convincing liar. 35. Dux now wears dark glasses and the right side of his mouth droops. I feel he probably suffered a stroke. For this, I truly feel sorry for him. But he’s an ultimately a FRAUD & a LIAR.

@francesco245

8 ай бұрын

N° 10: It doesn't look to me as if Dux has had any formal martial arts training at all... Or if he had, he's so awkward with his moves (if you're lucky enough to find a video where he does show some moves) and seems so untrained that if he did have training, it doesn't make any darn difference! (If he had real lessons in something, he probably quit way before black belt level anyway.) I admire your knowledge and effort; even I who "researched" Frank Dux a bit learned some new things...! I agree with your assessment that he's "fairly intelligent and is a very convincing liar" and yet I'm constantly baffled at how easily he seems to have fooled so many people who _should_ have known better. Black Blet Magazine is one example, and also, you've probably seen Dux's "performance" (it's on KZread) during a major martial arts festival that took place in France in the 1990s. Dux pretended to punch bulletproof glass (yes) and kicked a few clearly fake bottles before ending up flat on his ass... Surely the organisers of the festival (again, a major and televised event which used to take place every year and maybe still does) should have been way wiser and seen right through Dux's blatant BS!

@Scoobby96

8 күн бұрын

@@francesco245 Napoleon Blowapart did 2h long video dissecting Dux bullshittery and there's even more than gent above listed. Small correction tho': There was man named Senzo Tanaka living in California at approx. time Dux was a Teen, and in his first book ever he presents much more believable way of meeting him.

@erich1780

6 күн бұрын

I was in my early twenties watching Bloodsport with my friends. I didn't train in martial arts but i did watch Kickboxing fights for years since about 1974. At the end of Bloodsport I said this wasn't real. " Do you actually believe the African fighter fought as a monkey in a real fight". I brought up other examples. At the end of the movie it said Dux had 50 straight first round KO's and 300 straight wins. I said that is impossible and all my friends were yelling out me. My friends didn't follow the sport so that got pulled into his bull.

5:52 my man is not playing with that stick sword😂😂

@schmalzilla1985

6 ай бұрын

That was pretty comical.

@detetiveluke

6 ай бұрын

I laughed pretty hard to this one 😂

@noodlespooner

4 ай бұрын

That sound bite got me fucked up 😂

@chrisf.685

3 ай бұрын

The so called "sakki test" is done with a kendo shinai...that´s why it sounds like that.

@gunsharck

3 ай бұрын

Your man? Are you a fan of musical theatre then aye? Wear pink shirts

Whenever I feel bad about my performance in a bjj class I watch these fake masters and feel better about myself. Haha

@tommyakesson8858

9 ай бұрын

"Man I suck. But atleast I am not a sexual predator." 😅

@piotrmalewski8178

9 ай бұрын

These guys are your average salesperson. Remember: whenever you buy any technical service, the moment after it's working or about to work, speak to tech support, so they can free you all of the scams salespeople put on you.

@HandofNot

9 ай бұрын

Great idea. Guess I'll be watching them 3 times a week now :P

@Fightingat40

9 ай бұрын

​@@bobbobert9473Yeah it's almost become as popular as talking shit online.

@djrickmedley

9 ай бұрын

Umaplata has no effect if I activate my force field

The amount of time they spend trying to make them look real could have also been spend on actually learning a martial art lol

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

Haha. Great point

@PaMuShin

9 ай бұрын

A lot of people fail on the limitations of their body or brain to accomplish in a martial art, as thus they stay at fake it till you make it. Rather a sad story but at least you avoid the injuries of a real martial arts journey

@Jennifer-dw8hl

9 ай бұрын

And face their own limitation? I don't think it's possible for an adult chunibyo.

@Alpha13yt

9 ай бұрын

That wouldnt make them famous internet memes now would it?

@Jennifer-dw8hl

9 ай бұрын

@@Alpha13yt There are good internet martial arts memes too, from average guys who actually put some time into training. “Shout out to my girl Rachel... let's do this” for instance.

The sad thing about George Dillman is: he was in fact a legit, high-level Kempo Karate instructor & competitive fighter back in the late 60´s/early 70´s. During this time, he won several tournaments & did sparring/ training with various other famous martial artists, like you showed in the video. Then he started this pressure point/ no touch nonsense and became the laughing stock of the Martial Arts world. And what´s absolutely baffling: he still gets lots of students in his "dojo"!

@drhkleinert8241

7 ай бұрын

I wonder why no martial artist goes in, punch him away and shows the students that they waste their time and money.

@OkurkaBinLadin

7 ай бұрын

@@drhkleinert8241 Imagine, that you would get a prison time for aggravated assault... because you had to prove something to George Dillman of all people.

@unknownsword9042

6 ай бұрын

I’m confused by the pressure point stuff though. My friends dad was a marine and would show us pressure point stuff and it worked on all of us. Most of our friends were on the wrestling team and such.

@Mateilenberg

6 ай бұрын

@@drhkleinert8241 Easy to explain... They would never ever fight a capable fighter who doesn't believe their bullshido. So... no one can pick a fight with them to show it. They know they would lose

@arostwocents

5 ай бұрын

Pressure points are a real thing though and part of military training, I didn't get this bit

As someone who loves martial arts it scares and pisses me off that there are people out there like this not only scamming for money but worst taking sexually advantage of people and I think growing up I could have been one of those impressionable kids.

@Hugh_Jurrection

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, I absolutely agree. The sexual predator element makes my skin crawl, to be honest with you.

@richardthomas5362

6 ай бұрын

@@Hugh_Jurrection There was a martial arts instructor who molested a boy in Texas, then fled. When the perp ended up back in Texas he ended up getting shot by the father while being escorted through the airport by police.

@arthas640

6 ай бұрын

​@@richardthomas5362love that video. Instant justice. The judge gave the dad parole and a slap on the wrist worth of community service because the judge knew if the dad took his case to court the jury would send a vigilante home without even the slap on the wrist

@LunaticReason

6 ай бұрын

@@richardthomas5362 Good

@KamiNoRanger99

6 ай бұрын

Agreed, I have 20 years of experience and counting and this stuff is dangerous and gives a bad name to real martial artists

Many years ago, whilst at a Karate training camp, I trained with a guy who was 1st Kyu and fairly average. 6 months later he was on the front of a magazine running his own dojo as a 5th Dan. This is one of the biggest issues in MA.

@thewanderingsensei

8 ай бұрын

Hey karate guy here. 😂 23 years. Anyone will take your rank if you pay enough. And you can pay any magazine to be on the front cover. I own a school and magazine only serve your ego. It disgust me honestly and in my younger years after I felt ashamed. You train hard. You make fighting as real a possible and I have realized many of that customs and traditions are great to a point but are useless in fighting. It’s so easy to be in a bad situation so I lay low and I keep my mouth shut and I teach my best and try to make my students be better people.

@drhkleinert8241

7 ай бұрын

Once i met a 10th degree BB with 45 yrs of daily experience in his style (FMA) and he told me that he was "honored" with a 5th degree Black Belt Rank by the founder of another FMA style bec he knows and can nearly all the stuff the other style teaches (and of course he is a REALLY great 10th BB). He told me that he never speak about this 5th rank BB and he dont take this serious bec he never practised that style or just only a few techniques of that. Its like you have the 10th degree BB in Kyokushinkai Karate and the Shotokan Council spends you the 5th BB in Shotokan bec youre that good in Karate. Without one hour practicing Shotokan.

@thewanderingsensei

7 ай бұрын

@@drhkleinert8241 just about to get my 5th. After awhile it’s big really relevant

@CedricDur

7 ай бұрын

I remember being shy about taking my black belt as I didn't feel I had earned it and wasn't good enough. My instructor insisted so I went to the seminar. At some point I performed kumite with a black belt and I was just, wtf is this, guy is so slow, every move is so clumsy, no footwork. Welp, he was an instructor and was teaching people under him. Okay, sure, you don't have to be a super athlete to teach, but...

@chaplainsoffice6907

7 ай бұрын

@@drhkleinert8241 I started in Shotokan in 1962. It took three years to reach green belt.🐯

When the wooden sword hit that guys head I laughed so hard

@jb6368

9 ай бұрын

Sounded like it broke the sound barrier 😂 what a crack

@ArnasLeo

9 ай бұрын

Me too :)))

@imthebestthingsinceslicedr5400

9 ай бұрын

You can tell he loves Whack a mole to the point he does it to his students

@user-sw4wk3op9f

9 ай бұрын

luckily he uses bamboo or that would have ended badly

@hieronymuswiesenkraut3628

9 ай бұрын

@@user-sw4wk3op9f It's not bamboo but a bokken, a wooden sword. Hurts very much and is dangerous. But I think this test, it's a 5. Dan test, is fake. They test if you can sense the apperaring sword just in time. If you can, you pass the test. ClearIy it's esoteric belief because it's just hearing it or having good luck. I have seem him once in a while lifting his feet and other times he did not. Makes a huge difference for the tested person as those mats are noisy

The fact that there is no movie about Count Dante is nothing short of a crime.

@EmperorSigismund

6 ай бұрын

Imagine if Ashida Kim had made "The Amorous Adventure of Ashida Kim" into a crusty B movie.

@welcometothemovies9157

3 ай бұрын

When I'm able to get set up in movies, I'll do it

@nobodynothing00000

Ай бұрын

I put up "learn the dim mak" posters in the break room of every floor in my agency at work. not one damn person has noticed yet.

@Dragonette666

Ай бұрын

it might be kinda like Cobra Kai but not as good.

@amysteriousstranger1221

8 күн бұрын

That’d be a great pitch black comedy

To be fair, both Dillman and ‘Count Dante’ were actual martial artists…at first. Then Dante became tired of being a hairdresser and charged kids $5 to learn his dreaded DIM MAK (Dim Muk? Sim Yuk? Whatever) and Dillman just went completely insane.

@michaelford1124

7 ай бұрын

who was his shidoshi? bruce spingsteen?

@CHASETHEILLUSION

7 ай бұрын

no bruce lee was a fake hollywood actor and ali was nothing more than a puppet for boxing, its all bs

@turtletramp

6 ай бұрын

Yea dillman started ok but then ego took over.

@ZxSpectrumplus

6 ай бұрын

DIM MAK. Very popular in HK Kungfu movies from 70's to 90's i think. DIM MAK means "push/touch the pressure point" in Cantonese.

@Mahashma

2 ай бұрын

as someone who saw Bloodsport about 348 times when I was in high school in 88, I hear 'dim mak' and I hear some old sensei yell "No! The bottom one." @@ZxSpectrumplus

For those who want to go deeper in that rabbit hole, I highly recommend the videos on fake martial artists made by Napoleon Blownapart and Super Eyepatch Wolf

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

100%

@adamkane7513

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the recommendations, Bro.

@emectric1455

9 ай бұрын

I go back to those videos every now and again. They are so good

@dirt_farmer958

6 ай бұрын

Don't forget Sensai Seagal.

Dude must still have a headache from that wooden sword Strike!😂🤣

@malcolmt7883

7 ай бұрын

He probably had to explain to people why the top of his head was sore.

Where is steven seagal?

@wehrewulf

22 күн бұрын

At Golden Corral.

@ss-pj8ti

20 күн бұрын

eating doritos, wiping the crumbs off his shirt

@antoniq9000

15 күн бұрын

seagul

@encyclopediabrown1334

6 күн бұрын

@Hazukro There are many others that are much faker than Sir Segal

Masaaki Hatsumi is absolutely not fake. He's simply... old (91). And his art (that he did not create but inherit) is pretty much legit. His predecessor, Takamatsu Toshitsugu has 11 confirmed kills to his name, either in streetfight self-defense or in no-rules martial arts duels. A couple of countries incorporated this art into their armies, as well (obviously not the swordfighting parts). You people should really stop this holistic approach where one bad dojo or a group of casuals are taken as a "begin all, end all" examples and then label their entire arts as "not working". To an untrained eye, this makes you look cool, but the experienced people will take you for a fool. Contrary to that, people like Jesse Encamp and Sensei Seth are a great example of open-minded guys who go out of their way to actually experience different styles and THEN make a judgement.

@francesco245

8 ай бұрын

Masaaki Hatsumi is a fake and a clown. Obviously.

@encyclopediabrown1334

6 күн бұрын

@thewildchimp So your saying of the only 20 recorded deaths in any sanction bout, this man has 11 of them…? Where do you get your info…??

@thewildchimp

5 күн бұрын

@@encyclopediabrown1334 Ah, no, no - it's 11 confirmed kills in total. For example, one of these was in one Manchurian town's inn, a drunk Chinese officer realised he was Japanese and started loading his pistol to shoot him. Toshitsugu did a roll backwards from his char to the entrance, where he has left his katana, threw it at this guy and loped his head off cleanly. He was let go, because everyone testified it was self-defense. I think he won two bouts to the death in Shaolin as skill tests and maybe a few more in Japan and Mongolia but duels would be, generally, kept secret for obvious reasons.

@donoberloh

5 күн бұрын

ROFL

The Bullshido is strong in this one. I have spent over a decade debunking claims from many of my fellow practioners of Combat. These types of videos are needed!! Education and knowledge....Two Fists of Truth!

@johns3544

9 ай бұрын

Ah yes! If left dont get you right one will I know it well! 😊

@johns3544

8 ай бұрын

@@jamiesmith1162 .45 never fails 😈

@Hokunin

8 ай бұрын

@@jamiesmith1162 martial arts teach psychological confidence and punching by pure reflex, your fists and confidence will always be with you, whereas you don't always carry pepper spray with you. Plus, here in youtube are videos were it is proven that pepper spray aren't really effective, and may only escalate, enrage your enemy instead of stopping him, enemy can avoid getting sprayed and your actions will force him to instantly attack you, until you are disabled for good and won't be able to spray him again cuz you're beaten to heck. Most of the time, just demonstration of your confidence cuz you know how to fight, is enough to make the bully shy away, cuz they don't want to get punched back, too much trouble, they will look for weaker ones. Of course, this applies mostly just to school and university dorm environment, and if you meet some robber with a knife on the street, you just gotta run away screaming "poliice poliiice!", don't try to fight or pepper spray.

@mt_yuji

6 ай бұрын

TWO FISTS OF TRUTH??? badass...

@basketballchickensod

5 ай бұрын

Most of these people are autistic or adult kids. It's a fact.

These guys were a joke when I started martial arts in the early 90s, Dillman and Kim. Yet they're still around. I can't figure that out. To be fair, both of them make me laugh. So they have that going for them, entertainment value

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

It is crazy that there are still some nowadays. I'm just hoping there's less of them due to the nature of internet. But silly people will always be around I guess

@anthonyd1844

9 ай бұрын

I agree. What they teach will get a person hurt or worse. And then you get the worst of the worst, the ones in your top spots who abuse their influence to abuse others.

@aheroyaheroyalproductions7631

9 ай бұрын

And Steven Seagal? 🤔

@volpeverde6441

9 ай бұрын

they will be around.... as long as fantasists and idiots are.... in the 70's we stopped pretending to be bruce lee, when we got to about 9 years old....

Ashida kim's real name is Radford William Davis.

I used to run MMA gyms, fight shows and have a number of black belts in trad arts. I can honestly say that 90% of the guys in these clips are loons. However, I've also trained in Ninjutsu under a top student of Hatsumi (a former SAS soldier) and I've NEVER been in so much pain as I was in those classes. BJJ, kickboxing, Ju-Jutsu, karate etc... I've trained in and/or taught them. But none of them came close to sheer pain that was in Ninjutsu. Also, Hatsumi's Bujinkan is NOT just Ninjutsu but a collection of old Samurai arts with the simple aim of preserving them, which is a worthy pursuit. There are only three Ninjutsu schools taught in Bujinkan with only one taught fully. Though I'm a MoD rather than a traditionalist, I don't diss other martial arts because there is always something you can learn from them. Finally, MMA guys like to diss trad arts... but everything you see in the Octagon IS traditional!!!!! MuayThai - trad; BJJ - really ground based Judo and TRAD based; Kickboxing - invented by Karate guys and in reality simply Karate with a few boxing techniques, Judo - trad; Sambo - trad, Boxing - trad, wrestling - Trad. Even the octagon is taken from the ancient TRAD art of Pankration and is a representation of the columned arena with the sides creating an Octagon. The real difference is that MMA fighters are trained to be HIT and are generally far fitter. And those count!

@oni_goroshi

7 ай бұрын

Yep, Bujinkan is legit. I have trained in it since the early 90s. I have used the techniques in probably hundreds of altercations over the years as a bouncer. I can say with absolute certainty it saved my life several times and it's no joke.

@Jason-Joestar

7 ай бұрын

Well, I agree with you. I mastered a japanese martial arts to first degree black belt. It took me 15 years to master it up to that level. Against all odds and obstacles. What I learned from something like what I found here on youtube regarding to the comments is that only a short percentage of people know what they are talking about when they do so. The majority has no clue and so I do not give anything into it. You want to talk about it? Well, then train first and long enough. If you have a black belt after a decade of training, return and make your moves here. Otherwise, shut up, train and learn. Those who know and can do a couple of few things are those making a lot of noise around it, but those who have really mastered something are those staying out of sight.

I love how Dillman also claims that he can tell the gender of a baby by checking the pulse of a pregnant woman

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

I wanted to include that too but didn't find footage of it. One way or another there's a strong chance the guess right... It's 50-50!

@vargtro

9 ай бұрын

old chinese medicine practitioner would swear by that method, atleast they claimed they could tell a LOT by the pulse. And for sure many of the things you can do is actually proven, and yeah it seems like magic in a way. But all it is training sensitivity to a high degree to sense patterns, then correlate those patterns into a larger pattern to see if you can read the pattern based on the reading from your own sensitivity. No practitioner would only go by that but its their main method of reading symptoms.

@gregmccormack5709

9 ай бұрын

Whaaaat! 😂😂😂 it's funny but it's also very disturbing.

@BatCaveOz

9 ай бұрын

50% of the time, he was correct 100% of the time.

@user-id5fo5fv8r

3 ай бұрын

In ayurveda checking pulse and treating conditions is very real. I'm talking about real practitioners who have done a 4 yr full time bachelor's or 6 yrs masters degree in ayurvedic medicine from one of several govt universities run schools from India. They have their own terminology but it works. Btw in india ayurvedic degrees also make you learn regular medicine & surgery and they are legally permitted to prescribe regular medications.

I emailed Ashida Kim, pretending to be a ninja master. He responded completely seriously to my obviously ridiculous email! I would love to share it with you, Rokas! 😂

@muhaiminakbar4472

9 ай бұрын

Share it >:D

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

Haha. Sure, you can send it to sponsorship at martialartsjourney dot com

@blackc1479

9 ай бұрын

Bring it lol

@mfc5808

9 ай бұрын

Please also share it with Napoleon Blownapart! If you aren’t familiar with him, he also has KZread videos on Ashida Kim

@jeraldmcclainofficial6005

8 ай бұрын

@@mfc5808 LOL, "Napoleon 'Blownapart.'"

Ashida Kim was one of the worst fakes they had to frequently discredit and disprove at my dojo. I trained in Bujinkan Togakure-ryū Ninjutsu in the 80's, 90's, and into the mid-2000's. Every few days in the late 80's, and throughout the 90's, someone would come in and want to join, or observe, and would start talking about Ashida Kim. Many also asked about Frank Dux (another fraudster). It slowed a great deal in the 2000's, but was still too often in my opinion. Paladin Press put out a lot of junk, but his books were some of the worst imo.

@Vintage-Bob

6 ай бұрын

I trained in Bujinkan back in the 80's as well. Another insane fraud was "Professor" Ron Duncan. His shotgun shell walking stick trick in Ninja Magazine had us laughing our asses off! And then there was James "the Rat" Loreiga. Lots of charlatans out there at the time!

@intellectualninjamonkey2496

3 ай бұрын

You speak about Ashida Kim but Hatsumi was only slightly better.

@Vintage-Bob

3 ай бұрын

@@intellectualninjamonkey2496 You're insane.

@Mordraneth

3 ай бұрын

@@intellectualninjamonkey2496 Oh? Soke Hatusumi is in Japan. He resides in both Kyoto and Iga Prefecture. He lives in the Tokagure Monastery 70% of the year. He can show through legal documents provided by his late teacher, Soke Takamatsu, he is legit, and those same documents show the lineage of the Sokes there since the Tokugawa Shogunate. He has trained and taught for over 70 years in various Ryu. He is recognized by the Japanese Office of History (now called Japan Center for Asian Historical Records or JACAR) as legitimate and has produced hundreds of students. How exactly is he even close to Ashida Kim? Now, if you had said Stephen K. Hayes, a now disgraced student of Hatsumi Sensei, I might have agreed.

@intellectualninjamonkey2496

3 ай бұрын

@@Vintage-Bob he is a scammer with no fighting abilities. He always was. He was lucky there was no internet or UFC back then. I was a practitioner during the 90s. Spare me the lesson.

great job brother! it was actually hilarious but at the same time very informative., I heard from all of these clowns before but your count was absolutely deadly lol. keep it up

The fact that these "masters" actually have classes full of people to teach their "techniques" to says more about the students than it does about them

@Kangur08

9 ай бұрын

True, but what about social media influencers with thousands od folowers promoting for egzample fitness bullshit? Silly exercises, diet lies and hiding drug abuse to make money? People are gullible, but that doesn't mean they can be taken advantage of :P

@alnu8355

8 ай бұрын

I think the types of people who fall for these martial art school scams are the same kinds of people who fall for cults.

@orencio1969

8 ай бұрын

so true

@jlogan2228

8 ай бұрын

It's the power of suggestion on a weak mind. It's the same way people get stuck in abusive relationships, cults, or scams

@o.gparamount3099

8 ай бұрын

​@@jlogan2228EXACTLY💯🎯

"Count Dante" was in fact a good fighter, competed in Karate tournaments and did realize the limitations of traditional martial arts. But he was screwed up of counrse.

His tongue was in the wrong place, that comment alone nearly killed me and I'm sitting upright !!! Lmao 🤣🤣🤣

Great content man👍 keep exposing these frauds! Heads up for the scary guys, and love watching the funny ones😄

Dante was probably the most legit out of all of them. He was known to actually be able to fight and you can see videos of his dojo using full contact sparring, alot more than can be said for many schools.

@SeanStrife

9 ай бұрын

The only other one who could probably come close is MAYBE Dillman before he started going all in on the No-Touch Knockout shit. Apparently dude DID have a legit career as a karateka before then.

@RoyalFizzbin

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, Dante was an eccentric, but he DID fight. A lot. We can’t argue that he didn’t “pressure test” what he taught.

I understand why you picked who you did. But frank dux will always be near the top of these lists in my eyes.

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

Good point. He could have easily made the list!

@differentfins

7 ай бұрын

But the movie is still good lol, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

@phicks7963

28 күн бұрын

Frank Dux is legitimately one of the Best conmen to ever live

If not for MMA and cage fighting, we might have never known how silly these martial arts are.

@phicks7963

28 күн бұрын

Real

@mr.c332

15 күн бұрын

Even MMA and cage fighting are not real streets/war combat. In a setting without ANY rules or referees is "Real".

Ask a Ninja...? LOL...Reminds me of that lovely set of gems...

Great video! Any thoughts about doing one on what to look for when seeking a dojo that actually knows what they are talking about?

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

Good idea

@raccoonmyroom6861

9 ай бұрын

This would be really cool!

@TristanBehrens

9 ай бұрын

One main factor. Pressure testing of any kind. That can be sparring (preferably light, it's not worth damaging your brain as a hobbyist), rolling, competition, anything where you're trying to use your techniques against a fully resisting opponent. As a beginner they may want you to learn the ropes before they let you spar but If they don't do it at all they're never going to be effective at using the techniques they teach.

@Ihascock

9 ай бұрын

​@@TristanBehrensdepends on what you're looking for. If you practice to learn how to fight or not. For instance I saw a Wushu videos from sensei Seth where they don't fight but that is not the point of what they do.

@TristanBehrens

9 ай бұрын

@@Ihascock That is correct, I had meant to specify that I meant if your goal is to learn how to fight or defend yourself and you want a gym that can aid you in that there is no other way. I was going to go back after typing and put it at the start of my comment, but clearly I forgot to do so, thank you for reminding me.

What about the blonde guy who was kneeling in front of him, and said he could stop blows with mental powers, but did not get credit for his amazing ability to actually stopping them with his face.

I would love to see these masters step into the octagon against an MMA champion.

@Catgat37

9 ай бұрын

MMA is a sport, designed around rules.

Very entertaining video, even although had seen them many times before. 🤣

Thanks for another great video Rokas!

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Tbh Kata Dante - Dance of Death is a fantastic name. Sound like a video game or a metal album

Actually a matter of fact, the Bujinkan was not "invented" by Soke Hatsumi. The name Bujinkan was adopted due to the stigma hollywierd and the likes of ashida Kim painted on ninjutsu as it was originally named. Takamatsu Sensei was grand master prior to Soke Hatsumi. Soke Hatsumi is now considered a national treasure by Japan and is not permitted by the Japanese government to travel outside of Japan. Before degrading a martial art or teacher some actual research on it should be done. Or talk to someone that is on the inside to give real historical accounts. The purple hair Soke sports today is for spiritual reasons that most people wouldn't understand.

Interesting research, well done 👍

I thought it was Frank Dux who claimed to have fought in an underground death matches. Can’t remember reading about Count Dante doing the same thing

@aslime2151

9 ай бұрын

A lot of them like Frank Dux plagerize Count Dante adverts that where in the back of old comics.

@kempowarrior1954

8 ай бұрын

Dante made claims long before Dux. Bullshit claims by both.

@phicks7963

28 күн бұрын

Dante is the Originator of Frank Dux's Kumite Tales

I remember seeing Kim's books in the bookstore when I was a kid. To be honest I bought one and got another maybe another under a different name, so I must admit I possibly got three. One book I remember (that I didn't buy) was the so-called "Forbidden Arts of the Ninja" which seemed scary with the so-called breaking techniques. To be honest again I'd like to see it again, but just to get a reality check. I saw it before I took a martial art (I took taekwondo) so I had nothing to reference it. One taekwondo book had self-defense techniques that also had breaking techniques, but this was from a better martial artist. So anyone can be fooled and it is important to remember this, but it's important to learn from these experiences as well.

@kagemaru259

9 ай бұрын

I had that Forbidden Fighting Techniques Of The Ninja book by Kim. Was great for laughs.

@wadereynoldsdeadpool5768

9 ай бұрын

I have 2 ashida kim books too

@punisher7772

8 ай бұрын

Nothing wrong with reading Ashida Kim books, I been reading them since high school and still enjoy them. And I can guarantee that what Kim showed in that book you would never learn any of that in a Tae Kwon Do class. So it's kinda lame to compare that to ninjutsu, two completely different arts. And a TKD book is nothing compared to one of Kim's book , much more interesting and informative. And definitely more entertaining than a boring book on TKD. Also most of the self defense they teach is a joke and not very practical. There are much better martial arts to learn from. But it's fine for little kids who need a day care center after school and need some discipline in their lives. You will learn how to kick someone in the head and possibly knock them out but that's about it.

@punisher7772

8 ай бұрын

@@kagemaru259 so garroting someone and throwing a knife in their heart is funny to you ?

@marka4891

7 ай бұрын

@@punisher7772 Wait. You think Ashida Kim is a legitimate source of martial arts knowledge?

Love this, still planning on visiting in a few weeks. I hope I get to have a go.

I totally wanted chi and energy blasts to be real and would 100% have fallen for Dillman's bullshit had I not seen that natgeo doc when I was a teenager 😅 Looking back it was one of those crossroads moments, totally feel like I'd have ended up getting scammed by someone like these guys if I hadn't seen that

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

Very honest of you to say that. I was into no touch stuff in teenage years too. Unfortunately I did not see the documentary and did get tricked for quite a while 😂

@gobihoukou1

9 ай бұрын

I went through that phase too, and trained kung fu for some time... then I had some sparring with a friend from school who was doing muat thai. I changed gym shortly after.

@ZxSpectrumplus

6 ай бұрын

I actually felt chi before....from an old lady doing tai chi. But it's very mild, like you can feel it maybe 1 inch from her palm. Rest assured. No fireballs has been shoot out.

@Sum-Ting-Wong71

3 ай бұрын

It's all relative to the position of your tongue.

My mom at one point wanted to learn self defense. She found a teacher at a nearby dojo who taught self defense classes. She was about to sign up when he said he has an advanced course in which he teaches his students no-touch combat. She immediately left and never came back because what he was describing was demonic and she wasn't getting involded with that.

@lif6737

9 ай бұрын

Demonic? Dude just was selling pitching some goofy made up nonsense

@pauvilreutov2975

9 ай бұрын

@@lif6737 Two possible explanations for what he said. 1: He was lying in which case he is a liar. 2: He was telling the truth, which means he made a deal with the devil to have magic powers.

@MaMastoast

9 ай бұрын

So one superstition saved her from another superstition? Kinda funny tbh

@stevestrangelove4970

9 ай бұрын

no-touch? i call it gun handling.

@tommybootlegger

9 ай бұрын

The guy was obviously a Jedi master. Nothing demonic about that unless you turn to the dark side.

Dillman is a guy local to me, and my current Okinawan Kenpo instructor was his student before the whole death touch crap. He was a decent karateka, with a good kata. My instructor left when he started kyoshu jutsu.

@Elurin

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's the thing with Dillman, he was a decent sensei and taught decent karate. focusing on pressure point attacks is not BS, that's incredibly ignorant of the video guy to say. This youtube guy is basically equating pressure point tactics with something like chi kung, which is just silly. But Dillman got weird in his later years, obviously so that makes him an easy target.

@DarkPhoenixTSi

8 ай бұрын

@@Elurin Yeah, Dillman took what he thought Oyata was teaching (my dojo is an Odo lineage school, and he and Oyata were close at one point) and really just totally half assed it. My instructor told me of the last time that Odo and Oyata were in Reading and they had to try to keep Oyata from going to "talk" to Dillman.

@francesco245

8 ай бұрын

Sorry, say whaaat!!? "Decent kata"? Unfortunately, there are videos on here of Dillman performing what he thinks is "kata". It is utter and absolute CRAP. That he thought he could put this on a tape and not being laughed at is frankly beyond me.

@francesco245

8 ай бұрын

On a side note, it's *kyūsho jutsu. Not that it matters much as it is indeed BS.

@francesco245

8 ай бұрын

Sorry, but no. He's never been "decent", only mediocre at best. It's a common misconception, even among Dillman's detractors, that the guy used to be good at some point. He never was. Also, Dillman has been a whacko and conman for decades (if not all his life); he did not start recently. @@Elurin

Oh my god, 5:50 I had to pause the video when the guy got clobbered in the head with the sword. I was laughing so hard 😂

Bujinkan guys like that is why no one takes the art seriously... Waaay too many McDojos in it.

@dennisrounds1996

9 ай бұрын

The log 🪵 weapon is one of those bizarre “traditional” weapons like a tetsubo which may or may or have been used in the past? It’s inconceivable and even those which study realize how impractical it is. All that said Prather is a very scary and dangerous man and equal shady. Quick point much of martial arts training isn’t to teach actual techniques (which may or may not work) but principles of techniques, broader movements. I personally was briefly brought into this man’s cult and caught a glimpse of it. I know many more which left

I miss DUST. The guy that promotes techniques to use when you have a gun or knife pointed at you. But those techniques will get you killed.

@phicks7963

28 күн бұрын

The unfortunate part about DUST is they're teaching BS and should be called out for it but they actually do "private policing" for Detroit and have done more for the people in that city than the actual Police Department

The 'moving out of the way at the last minute using your spidey sense' 5:45 is funny as hell! 😅

@inconnu4961

Ай бұрын

Didnt you see 'Star Wars'? It's the Force, man!

4:28 how can a death match be secret and also have audiences in the thousands?

Excellent video! Thank you!

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I've studied martial arts for 40 years. I've trained students who've become teachers in their own right and that makes me proud but I'm still on my own journey to wisdom. It's not about what other people think about me it's about what I think about myself. I think my study has made me a better person.

@orencio1969

8 ай бұрын

i consider myself a scholar of the martial arts rather than a master as I spend most of my time going deeper into applications of the movement, as a 5th Dan I believe that it is my mission to pass the torch to the next gen of youth martial artists, great job to all you masters who remain true to you teaching.

That wooden sword to the head had me 😂😂😂😂😂

In Brazil there was a false master called Antônio Lacerda, The master of death, for a short period he "trained" former ufc champion Marcos Ruas

Hatsumi sensei is not fake... the ignorance of even suggesting that is telling

@JJ-wh3rh

6 ай бұрын

Click-bait and hate. He thinks ALL martial art has to be full-contact and competition. He’s an extremist going from aikido to MMA, can only see black and white. Jeff was the one on the list.

@donoberloh

5 күн бұрын

Rofl talk all the older true Japanese martial arts instructors.

Hey man, Master Ken realizes the true value of a groin... and destroys it.

This whole thing is funny af!🤣

When I read up on George Dillman it seemed like when he first got started he wanted to be legit but once he got a taste of a No Touch KO seminar he smelled a business opportunity and ran with it.

Don't you dare disrespecting Master Ken! 😂

@blackc1479

9 ай бұрын

Besides, he didn't end w the stomp to the groin👍

@andrewmccormack4295

9 ай бұрын

Master Ken is the real deal,after all he created the "Thrust Of Freedom" technique.

Anytime I come through such sad realities that have nothing to do with martial arts, I hope people will learn how to avoid that crap. Thanks Always for the good video 🙏

This is straight old-school nostalgia! So funny, every neighborhood back in the late 70's or early 80's had that one kid who bought the mail-order karate instructions and ninja outfit. Pure Comedy!

Real ones remember Pinkman and his fake martial arts master videos... one day he suddenly deleted all videos and disappeared. They were sooooo entertaining! WE MISS YOU PINKMAN!!!!

It hurts to see those fake guys making such a bad name to Ninjutsu/bujinkan. The teachings itself could have the potential to be up there with authentic karate if it was widely trained legitly.

@nordboya1656

9 ай бұрын

Ninjutsu is not legit. Historically it is super dubious, and there is a reason no-one can demonstrate actually effective ninjutsu today.

@lastmanstanding5423

9 ай бұрын

@@nordboya1656 Exactly, historically it became a thing in the 20th century after all the ninja movies. prior to that it didn't exist at all.

@skatefastreadmarx5564

9 ай бұрын

​@@lastmanstanding5423 All you have to do is a modicum of research to realize this is not true. Just research the Iga and Koga villages.

@rohitchaoji

9 ай бұрын

​​@@nordboya1656Exactly. Even espionage during medieval Japan was probably just regular trained spies with skills based on espionage, concealment and surveillance/reconnaissance, rather than lethal blows, katana combat and skill with shurikens or something.

@skatefastreadmarx5564

9 ай бұрын

​@nordboya1656 there's only 3 arts in the Bujinkan recognized as "ninjutsu" 1 of which basically consist of espionage tactics and making poison, etc. The rest are well established ryuha, the main "ninja" one, togakure-ryu was most likely a synthetic formalization of certain adoptions of primarily gyokko-ryu techniques alongside other non-combat techniques that had been passed down from those following the lineage of the Iga-village martial arts. It just takes a bit more research than the very surface to figure this out.

Its funny that so many systems rely on fighting only cooperative students and not to aggressive and resisting men. So many more than these are totally fake but are never challenged as a style in MMA

The sword smack was gold

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

You can't fake those golden moments 😁

@rossmacomish

9 ай бұрын

@@MartialArtsJourney 😆

Someone apparently forgot to tell the first guy that the ring trick only looks legitimate when you're not on the ground.

5:50 had me rolling on the floor

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

He didn't have jedi powers... 😔

Speaking of Dante's Dance of Death martial arts, there is a certain Philippine martial arts that is called Sayaw ng Kamatayan, also known as YawYan, which means Dance of Death. It feels like a mix of Muai Thai and Kali.

@hedgehog1965uk

9 ай бұрын

Yes, I believe Dan Inosanto used that technique in Game Of Death.

I think the scariest thing about Fabia is that he has all the makings of being cult leader with all of his weird philosophy

lmfao the scientist man waiting to be no contact knocked out, awkwardly closes his eyes and purses his lips while the guy holds his hands 3 inches from his face. literally too funny.

Masaaki Hatsumi has a medical degree in Osteopathic medicine. He probably the most legit MARTIAL ARTS master on this list.

@bengray5013

9 ай бұрын

It’s probably a fake degree, like all the degrees he’s given out for big bucks 😂

@punisher7772

9 ай бұрын

@@bengray5013 uhh he used to have a medical clinic in his younger days and was a bone setter. You internet trolls don't know anything.

@bengray5013

9 ай бұрын

@@punisher7772 a bone setter? Ahahahaha you wannabe ninjas are hilarious 😂😂😂

@punisher7772

9 ай бұрын

That is true. He has amazing skill and can do lots of things many of the other masters can't. He has been training and teaching forever. It's hard to believe anyone would even think of calling him fake. People know nothing nowadays sadly. He is also one of the last truly wise men on this planet. If people can't appreciate this teachers knowledge that is their loss.

@bengray5013

9 ай бұрын

@@punisher7772 he's a well known fake... He teaches watered down kobudo and jujutsu... He and his bujinkan are the laughing stock of Japanese martial arts community, especially the koryu scene

Masaaki Sensei is legit.

@bengray5013

9 ай бұрын

No he really isn’t, he’s a big time fraud that many others copied...

@noahprice9540

9 ай бұрын

A lot of Masaaki’s techniques work though.

@bengray5013

9 ай бұрын

@@noahprice9540 against compliant uke yes, but in real life no they really don't...

@noahprice9540

9 ай бұрын

At least they work against weapons.

@bengray5013

9 ай бұрын

@@noahprice9540 no they don't work, they'd get you killed!!! Hatsumi is a fraud teaching watered down kobudo and jujutsu...

1:03 I was half expecting him to freeze for a second and then go "OW!"

That cracked to the head with that bokken and gets me every time. Lmao

Count Dante was not a count, and dim mak is a fraud, but other than that the guy really knew how to fight. He just came up with a larger than life persona.

George Dillmann isn't BS. I've seen him slice watermelons on people's bare chest with razor sharp Katana's blindfolded, smash ice to pieces, knock someone out with a simple touch. I was a student in the 80s as young man, can't speak of no touch knock outs, but the rest is real deal. I witnessed these feats, from a distance of like 10 feet max. He is in Guinness Book of World Records like 6 times, so he didn't trick them 6 times. You can't undo the fact that he trained with Bruce Lee and I think he was a body guard for Mohamed Ali for a bit.

@ninjasolarteam

9 ай бұрын

true although he went on the deep end and gone senile and a liar

@gregoryheim9781

9 ай бұрын

40 years later, and still guzzling the Kool-aid. And trying to get others to drink it. I get it. You don't want to admit that you believed in something fake. It's embarrassing. It taints all of your current and future relationships. We all made mistakes when we were young. No one would have known how foolish you were until you made this comment. But then again, silently harboring an embarrassing belief is strange in and of itself.

@kempowarrior1954

8 ай бұрын

He wasn’t Ali’s bodyguard. Taught him some karate stuff. Gave Ali an honorary black belt.

@henrysniper8481

5 ай бұрын

I know I often wonder what changed Dillman, prescription drugs ?

I seen these guys in so many videos but just cant get enough it so funny

In under 10 minutes? This will be a cannon of a shot vid, indeed. Let me set myself for it.

The first time I heard of that Jeff Prather fellow was when a youtuber named Skallagrim did a video on one of his. There was a bit of drama as Skallagrim had to find politer ways of saying it was ridiculous.

@gobihoukou1

9 ай бұрын

Same here, its one of Skall's funniest videos.

@bryanmuster5662

9 ай бұрын

Skallagrim is awesome! I've gotta check that one out.

@MarMar-zj8tf

9 ай бұрын

there's 2. One more jokey, the next having to settle people down.@@bryanmuster5662

"Ritual whorehouse combat" I almost died when I heard that.

@MartialArtsJourney

9 ай бұрын

Must have been intense...

@bryce4228

9 ай бұрын

It's the future of war.

@ZovcDrafts

9 ай бұрын

I almost died when I tried it.

@bryce4228

9 ай бұрын

@@ZovcDrafts You're a brave soul. Keep fighting the good fight.

@PaMuShin

9 ай бұрын

Actually on Jesse Enkamp channel in his playlist he features the Whore House Storys of Okinawan Masters for polishing karate, although it seems hard make him do a third season of okinawa travels exploring the secret underground of the okinawan red light district and thus shatters my hope of him becoming a legend.

When the egomaniac who actually writes novels featuring himself as a Mary Sue Character having women fall all over him is at the bottom of a list, you know you’re in for a ride.

Já za to nemůžu, takhle nás to učili v FSB :D :D :D Ajeeeeee, to bude zase veselo :D :D

5:51 had me laughing out loud.

The interesting thing about George Dillman is that even though a lot of what he teaches is bogus, he did cause karate to do a total rethink about what and how they were teaching,. I was around when he came big on the scene and I have seen the influence that he has had on even very traditional styles. He has taught a lot of very interesting stuff amongst the garbage, the big problem being that you have to be quite high ranked to determine which is which. On the whole, I would say he has been a good thing for karate, but probably a bad thing for his students.

@chadkirk150

7 ай бұрын

It boggles my mind how someone can fall that hard. Did Dillman smoke some hard crack? Was it the 80th concussion that made him think he has Jedi powers? Or maybe it was the fact that he was no longer in shape, and can no longer perform the things he used to do? We'll never know.

@donoberloh

3 ай бұрын

I applaud your generosity, Hard to credit him as being good for Karate or martial arts as a whole unless is it to potential students what not to fall for.

@spacecadet35

3 ай бұрын

@@donoberloh - I remember when he still started to become famous, what he taught caused most karate clubs in my area to rethink what they were teaching and why. So that was good. But his later stuff, we also looked at that and just shook our heads. So mixed.

I remember seeing ad's for Count Dante. He did perfect his look.

These dudes should’ve just applied for acting roles

I would say Count Dante but since he's dead, how about George Dillman. He is now the buffon of the traditional martial arts. Wait! Masaaki Hatsumi? Wasn't he the esteemed teacher of Stephan Hayes.

@JJ-wh3rh

6 ай бұрын

Jeff was the one on the list, he just wanted to trow in som ninjutsu-hate. Some KZreadrs can’t get over that they wasted years on a martial-art, so they become haters of traditional martial-arts.

James Randi is a hero of mine remember seeing him doing the debunk at the time

@memyselfandi6422

9 ай бұрын

I think you mean "was" a hero of yours, 'cause he died ages ago.

The older gentleman with the tree trunk is my personal favorite.

in the case of the sakki test, Hatsumi doesn't use a wooden sword, he uses a bamboo shinai, which is something that becomes abundantly obvious, if you listen to the impact in the video. No WOODEN sword makes that sound

Yes, but why M Hatsumi is portrayed there? Bujinkan is a Traditional Martial Art, and as a tradition is legit.

@francesco245

8 ай бұрын

Because he's obviously a whacko and a fake. That's why.

@JJ-wh3rh

6 ай бұрын

Jeff was the one on the list, Hatsumi pic is just click-bait

I thought most of these were a joke! Like master Ken except master Ken is actually funny! LOL

@PaMuShin

9 ай бұрын

If you watch closely kens technique shows a lot of practice hours like the stableness while he is doing kicks and stuff, i am sure he practices very diligent in his past time and is very able to fight, probably would have already extinguished after his dojo storms if not

@BMO_Creative

9 ай бұрын

Oh yeah man! In real life, he is a martial artist, BUT his comedy character is hilarious!

Finally a good youtube Channel Thank you sir and keep doing great.

Counte Dante is such an insane figure... he needs a movie. The man walked around chicago with a tiger wearing a cape.

I don't understand how Fake Dux is not on this list, hehe. It doesn't get any more bullshido than him! Also, it is a little sad how there are always people related to good names that later make them look bad, such as the case of the Bujinkan guy. Hatsumi sensei did a great (and serious) job collecting and putting together long almost-lost teachings of ninpo and shinobi, and then come guys like this one in the video, ruining the reputation of the art. Btw, the godan test is actually interesting to watch. Many fail, like the ones in the video, but it is a much larger percentage that succeeds (and it is not a boken that it is used, it's a shinnai)

oh wow i never heard of heydrich after randi proved him a fraud. i never expected him to turn out like THAT

@adamkane7513

9 ай бұрын

Bear in mind that *James Hydrick* was in & out of prisons _before_ he became "famous" for his psychic & Martial Art showmanship.

@SupremeGreatGrandmaster

9 ай бұрын

@@adamkane7513 And Black Belt magazine still put Hydricks on the cover. Class-A journalism.

I was a 3 rd degree black belt in Goju ryu. After I stopped training, I admitted to myself that most of what I’d been “taught” was bs. Mostly because my sensei relied on me going along with what he declared was legit. I was too insecure to dispute him, and often went along with him to the point where I suffered injuries.

@LanaKitten

6 ай бұрын

i train goju ryu as well, what exact did you realise was bs? just asking so I can check myself hahah

@nicolelala10

6 ай бұрын

Like I said, going along with my sensei basically distorting my joints and abusing me and realizing after 7 years that what he was teaching us was "fine" to an extent, but mostly bs. I walked away with a great amount of confidence in my abilities, but a tragic lack of ability. I told myself time and time again that I was amazed at his knowledge, ability and skill, that I ignored the fact that most of what he "taught" me was from videos he would before class. My advice is t you..."Use your head. Don't blindly accept everything you're taught as absolute truth. and don't be afraid to question things." I blame my own insecurities as much as I do blame him. @@LanaKitten

@TheRastacabbage

6 ай бұрын

Goju is awesome. Real okinawan toudi

@RoyalFizzbin

6 ай бұрын

Goju-ryu is one of the two styles that make up Kyokushin, which A LOT of MMA fighters use to great effect. Not sure what about Goju is not legit.

@nicolelala10

6 ай бұрын

Not saying Goju is not legit. Im saying my instructor, and my maturity at the time, were not legit.@@RoyalFizzbin

Imagine Kim's hand goes into the iron trap ... camera off ... "ouch ouch" *wiggle hand*. Right up my alley.

Funny, that "Iron hand into steel trap" thing is exactly what you see at the average hillbilly bonfire after the 3rd keg goes dry.