lostinseattle
Green Belt
What would you do if you were going to a Chinese teacher of martial arts, and he taught mostly forms, say, mostly taiji but he said he'd teach you his 'secret' applications form. Of course for private rates by the hour.
And then the applications form looked nothing like the rest of his martial arts, and you asked former students about it, who showed you their version of his supposed 'secret' form, and it looked nothing like what he's teaching you.
So one day you were watching a video of Hung Gar and you saw the applications on that Hung Gar video, so you bought a bunch of other Hung Gar videos, and found some of the applications he taught you on there, not taiji at all. So you bought a bunch of apps videos from China and found the apps he was teaching you on those videos -- the exact same sequence in most cases -- and not from his martial arts at all.
You'd quit, wouldn't you? But the real question is ... do you confront him about it, and tell him he's a huge cheater, and show him the evidence, or do you just not return his phone calls?
And then the applications form looked nothing like the rest of his martial arts, and you asked former students about it, who showed you their version of his supposed 'secret' form, and it looked nothing like what he's teaching you.
So one day you were watching a video of Hung Gar and you saw the applications on that Hung Gar video, so you bought a bunch of other Hung Gar videos, and found some of the applications he taught you on there, not taiji at all. So you bought a bunch of apps videos from China and found the apps he was teaching you on those videos -- the exact same sequence in most cases -- and not from his martial arts at all.
You'd quit, wouldn't you? But the real question is ... do you confront him about it, and tell him he's a huge cheater, and show him the evidence, or do you just not return his phone calls?