I know of two great scams.
The first and one of my favorites is Tracy Kenpo? Who does Al Tracy think he is. He stabbed Ed Parker in the back before he got his Black Belt. He preached for yrs that his stuff was superior to the Ed Parker System. He then proceeded to tell everybody that he and Ed Parker were good friends, and that they were collaborating before Grand Master Parker on a video series. Yes Ed Parker started his series of video tapes, but his last article to a magazine he put the Tracys down. he said Tracys Kenpo? After Master Parker passed away the Tracy's created some B.S. history about their lineage.
Come on people. These guys are on the same business level as Chung Moo Do/Quan whatever they want to call themselves this week. And techniqually they are only one step above that.
The second great scam is being asked to buy a school to stop it from closing. I was asked by a representative of one of the larger kenpo associations to buy ht eschool in which I trained. If I did not buy it, it would have closed, and many people would have had no place to train. My fiance and I at the time bought the school, we followed the directions to running the school as per the directions of the local head of the organization. We paid tons of money for everything from, private lessons, to bringing in the local rep for seminars, to having him oversee all the gradings. When I got tired of paying for everything under the sun the local rep, endorsed the person I bought the school from to open a new school. Then all my students were contacted by phone and told that if they wanted to continue taking Kenpo then they had to go to a new school. Most of those people were intimidated in to going to the new school. Little did they care that the quality of instruction at the new school was sub standard. People are easily swayed by a little flash and the guy who screwed me out of my school, has done it to others. To me that is a big scam.
I feel so used, I didn't even get a kiss good night.
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