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.
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
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.
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.
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 RUclips) 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!
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 Imagine, that you would get a prison time for aggravated assault... because you had to prove something to George Dillman of all people.
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.
@@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
@@KevinGeaslin 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
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
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
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
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.
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....
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.
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
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 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.
@@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
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! 😂
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.
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 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.
@@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.
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!
@@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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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
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.
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
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@thewildchimp and all conveniently out of the country with no witnesses or corroborated testimony? 🤣 There is so much BS out there. I trained 4 and 5 nights a week, and it still took me over 3 years to get my Dan ranking. Meanwhile, a brown belt from Korea comes here locally*San Antonio) and starts his own karate school (not Taekwondo as the locals didn't know the term then). Schools still exist under Kim's Karate. We had brown belts come from there and our mid level lower belts would do kata and sparring at much better skill levels. The BS just never stops out there. Careful what you believe. Gotta sift through so much BS that is out there. BJJ is another one. Effective yes, but it is interesting how well Olympic wrestlers do vs them.
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
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.
@@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.
@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
I attended a seminar with Neil Adams, Jeff Thompson plus other top instructors and Dillman was one of them. His pressure point training did work but I came across similiar techniques in Shirinji kenpo. Dillman was really arrogant and very unfriendly to the attendees when not instructing. He did seems to be a POS this video made me chuckle.
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.
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
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 thing about George Dillman was that he wasn't always like that. Aside from being a competitive fighter and good instructor, my master's grandmaster said he used to train and teach with him. He just probably lost it somewhere down that journey, fame can really get to your head sometimes
Master Ken is the only 11th degree Master! (I do enjoy watching his videos). However, there have been many self proclaimed wingnuts for decades, maybe centuries.
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.
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.
I started when I was 9 I am 45 my step dad was an instructor and his teacher ran out school goju ryu I am probably about as good as they were at there prime both of them have been dead for years i am not any where good enough to run my dad and masters school teaching is a lot harder than just practicing and learning 3rd Dan was as high as I got
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.
The worst bullshido master was bernd schwarwait from north germany, fake 11 dan in ninjutsu given by himself and his frinds, own clappingroom for his female students under 18 his school was more like a sekt as Colonia Dignidad. those where the 80 noone in the small towns in germany was firm about MMA-Karate Ninjutsu and we all thougt he is the sensei he will care about us. My two uncles came home from france both ww 2 veterans saw what happens came to his Dojo kicked him out and schooled us. im very gratefull to them since today. i never grew to a champion but it helped me to survive 2 Wars and many minor conflicts. their motto about the many many martial arts raised in the 80s was la survie donne raison or survival proves right. hope you enjoyed this historic story from the start of the new martial arts there where only ppl like karate tommy a well known pimp from hamburg reeperbahn, bruce lee in the cinemas, david caradine in the tv and later came michael dudikoff as american niinja it was hard to find serious trainers. hope for all who are watching this video of the bullshido master to find a good sensei wich brings the best out of the person he traines and not these humungus in the video. have fun all.
I am about Average in Martial Arts, I practice Martial Arts to defend myself from what is taking place today: Best advise when a person trains to their what they are capable of dong they themselves is doing their best !!!
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
Hey, all these other people agreed. But Count Dante is different. He was an effin' badass and his sideburns were always on point. Dude was a mid-level mafio Irish hairdresser. He would involuntarily Kumité a rival dojo and you know somebody was gettin' Dim'makked. Con man, Yes. Criminal, certainly. Fake badass?Absolutely not! Count Dante would put his hands on ya...hands of death!
6. Steven Segal from the 80's 5. Steven Segal from the 90's 4. Steven Segal from the 2000's 3. Steven Segal from the 2010's 2. Do you get it now? 1. For your parents' sake, I hope you do.
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.
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 don't care what is said about the other people in this video but Masaaki Hatsumi is almost 80 something there but his style of ninjutstu is a real style passed down for hundreds of years. Tokagure Ryu ninjutstu. I studied it myself along with koga ryu ninjutsu and the Chinese ninjutsu Lin Kuei (quay). Hatsumi is definitely real. The only way to obtain your black belt is to know when the sword is swung down and avoid it. By real concentration on your surroundings and energy not the guy in the video that just keeps moving out of fear. Ki is real whether people choose to believe it or not.
Dillman at one time was a real Karate Sensei. He even wrote some great kata application books. But.,, then he started this garbage is is known for. And rather than good karate teacher, he will be known the way he is now. And he has hurt all honest karate ka.
Oooh May I ask. My wife and I who are both martial artist recently had a conversation about the cult like structure of a lot of martial arts. Some martial art masters even relying on a cult of personality for their success.
@@MartialArtsJourney Absolutely. I have had the misfortune of coming across some ... "Masters" who practically self deify. Sadly they have some students that see them in that sort of light. Also. Awesome work. The USDC is a riot.. I need to lose some pandemic weight and would love to have a go at this one day.
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!
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.
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
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 🙏
You forgot Steven Seagal, who deserves to be on this list, because he used his celebrity to commit acts of sexual assault, including holding two women against their will and forcing them to serve as his sex slaves/maids, his work being a Putin supporter, and his support of the Russian military in their war against Ukraine, though that one may actually be a good thing, because the Russian have waisted a lot of resources on his idiocy. Also his entire style of martial arts is BS.
Classifying voluntary sex between consenting adults, no matter how stupid the narrative used to enter the sexual union, as r*pe does a massive disservice to cases of actual forced encounters. Unlike in real r*pe, the women who chose to bang the 'sensei' absolutely do bear a big chunk of the blame.
Ok I can tell you got certain that pressure points do work! But George went to the far dark side in his later years and really started doing stupid stuff just to try to get attention. But pressure points do work. I was a doubter, but after seeing it and feeling it in person....it made me a believer. The other crap George does now is just that... Crap.
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)
The guy that got exposed blowing the page of the phone book to move it. He should have still moved the page like he always does and when the pieces the skeptic put down also move from him blowing he should have said, of course the pieces around the phone book moved, it was discharge of my chi energy hitting the page
Kim's "challenge" fee is just that: a fee YOU pay for the honor of fighting him. You also have to pay to fly him and his friends out to you and pay for their hotel and dining. Hilariously enough, a group of people once pooled the money together and issued the challenge to him! He did not show up.
Steven segal should be in this list. He is actually a blackbelt in ikido, but he has claimed to be capable of much more than he is, and has a bad sense of ethics.
My favourite has to be the no-touch stuff. It's fascinating because it's not just one guy involved, but a group of students. I never did figure out if they were in on the con, or if it was more a cult style following.
Ok I trained in bujinkan budo when I was younger and I did effectively apply the movement I had learnt from the Form of self defence. If proper taught with the right heart, it is very effective in protecting ones self and others within good justice. Belts hold pants up
“My entire self-defense system is nullified if the attacker puts his tongue in the wrong position.” -George Dillman
He was a non- believer, so....
WOW.
Don't you hate it when that happens!
Well his tongue was on his eye teeth and he couldn't see what what was happening?? As If!!!!
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.
Scooby doo villain level effort
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
That is quite creative.
That’s hilarious!😆
Mind games are a part of martial arts, this guy convinced a whole room of people that he moved the building with his mind
Whenever I feel bad about my performance in a bjj class I watch these fake masters and feel better about myself. Haha
"Man I suck. But atleast I am not a sexual predator." 😅
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.
Great idea. Guess I'll be watching them 3 times a week now :P
@@bobbobert9473Yeah it's almost become as popular as talking shit online.
Umaplata has no effect if I activate my force field
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.
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 RUclips) 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!
@@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.
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.
Dux would like to counter you silly argument with: “nu uh!”
Rape? How, it was consensual
5:52 my man is not playing with that stick sword😂😂
That was pretty comical.
I laughed pretty hard to this one 😂
That sound bite got me fucked up 😂
The so called "sakki test" is done with a kendo shinai...that´s why it sounds like that.
Your man? Are you a fan of musical theatre then aye? Wear pink shirts
The amount of time they spend trying to make them look real could have also been spend on actually learning a martial art lol
Haha. Great point
And face their own limitation? I don't think it's possible for an adult chunibyo.
That wouldnt make them famous internet memes now would it?
@@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.
But thats the thing, none of them are good at it.
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.
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.
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.
@@drhkleinert8241 just about to get my 5th. After awhile it’s big really relevant
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...
@@drhkleinert8241
I started in Shotokan in 1962.
It took three years to reach green belt.🐯
Where is steven seagal?
At Golden Corral.
eating doritos, wiping the crumbs off his shirt
seagul
@Hazukro
There are many others that are much faker than Sir Segal
💀🤣
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"!
I wonder why no martial artist goes in, punch him away and shows the students that they waste their time and money.
@@drhkleinert8241 Imagine, that you would get a prison time for aggravated assault... because you had to prove something to George Dillman of all people.
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.
@@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
Pressure points are a real thing though and part of military training, I didn't get this bit
The fact that there is no movie about Count Dante is nothing short of a crime.
Imagine if Ashida Kim had made "The Amorous Adventure of Ashida Kim" into a crusty B movie.
When I'm able to get set up in movies, I'll do it
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.
it might be kinda like Cobra Kai but not as good.
That’d be a great pitch black comedy
When the wooden sword hit that guys head I laughed so hard
Sounded like it broke the sound barrier 😂 what a crack
Me too :)))
You can tell he loves Whack a mole to the point he does it to his students
luckily he uses bamboo or that would have ended badly
@@KevinGeaslin 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
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
100%
Thanks for the recommendations, Bro.
I go back to those videos every now and again. They are so good
Don't forget Sensai Seagal.
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
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
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.
And Steven Seagal? 🤔
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....
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.
who was his shidoshi? bruce spingsteen?
no bruce lee was a fake hollywood actor and ali was nothing more than a puppet for boxing, its all bs
Yea dillman started ok but then ego took over.
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.
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
Yes, but why M Hatsumi is portrayed there? Bujinkan is a Traditional Martial Art, and as a tradition is legit.
Because he's obviously a whacko and a fake. That's why.
Jeff was the one on the list, Hatsumi pic is just click-bait
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.
Yeah, I absolutely agree. The sexual predator element makes my skin crawl, to be honest with you.
@@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.
@@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
@@richardthomas5362 Good
Agreed, I have 20 years of experience and counting and this stuff is dangerous and gives a bad name to real martial artists
I understand why you picked who you did. But frank dux will always be near the top of these lists in my eyes.
Good point. He could have easily made the list!
But the movie is still good lol, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Frank Dux is legitimately one of the Best conmen to ever live
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! 😂
Share it >:D
Haha. Sure, you can send it to sponsorship at martialartsjourney dot com
Bring it lol
Please also share it with Napoleon Blownapart! If you aren’t familiar with him, he also has RUclips videos on Ashida Kim
@@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.
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!
You speak about Ashida Kim but Hatsumi was only slightly better.
@@intellectualninjamonkey2496 You're insane.
@@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.
@@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.
You missed one Steven seagull
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!
Ah yes! If left dont get you right one will I know it well! 😊
@@jamiesmith1162 .45 never fails 😈
@@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.
TWO FISTS OF TRUTH??? badass...
Most of these people are autistic or adult kids. It's a fact.
Great video! Any thoughts about doing one on what to look for when seeking a dojo that actually knows what they are talking about?
Good idea
This would be really cool!
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.
@@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.
@@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.
Dude must still have a headache from that wooden sword Strike!😂🤣
He probably had to explain to people why the top of his head was sore.
That wasn't a wooden sword it was a bamboo sword called a shinai it stings a little but it doesn't hurt.
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
No shinai makes that sound either. It sounds more like a whip. My guess is that it is pvc
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.
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
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 😂
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.
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.
It's all relative to the position of your tongue.
I love how Dillman also claims that he can tell the gender of a baby by checking the pulse of a pregnant woman
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!
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.
Whaaaat! 😂😂😂 it's funny but it's also very disturbing.
50% of the time, he was correct 100% of the time.
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.
"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.
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!
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.
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.
His tongue was in the wrong place, that comment alone nearly killed me and I'm sitting upright !!! Lmao 🤣🤣🤣
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
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
I think the types of people who fall for these martial art school scams are the same kinds of people who fall for cults.
so true
It's the power of suggestion on a weak mind. It's the same way people get stuck in abusive relationships, cults, or scams
@@jlogan2228EXACTLY💯🎯
4:28 how can a death match be secret and also have audiences in the thousands?
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.
I had that Forbidden Fighting Techniques Of The Ninja book by Kim. Was great for laughs.
I have 2 ashida kim books too
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.
@@kagemaru259 so garroting someone and throwing a knife in their heart is funny to you ?
@@punisher7772 Wait. You think Ashida Kim is a legitimate source of martial arts knowledge?
Frank Dux should be on this list.
Ashida kim's real name is Radford William Davis.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, Dante was an eccentric, but he DID fight. A lot. We can’t argue that he didn’t “pressure test” what he taught.
Hatsumi sensei is not fake... the ignorance of even suggesting that is telling
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.
Rofl talk all the older true Japanese martial arts instructors.
His fight skills are as real as santa
@ethanwhittaker798 you do know that st Nicholas was real right?
You've got to be joking @@DanielOrtiz-dl8eo
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.
Masaaki Hatsumi is a fake and a clown.
Obviously.
@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…??
@@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.
ROFL
@thewildchimp and all conveniently out of the country with no witnesses or corroborated testimony? 🤣 There is so much BS out there. I trained 4 and 5 nights a week, and it still took me over 3 years to get my Dan ranking.
Meanwhile, a brown belt from Korea comes here locally*San Antonio) and starts his own karate school (not Taekwondo as the locals didn't know the term then). Schools still exist under Kim's Karate. We had brown belts come from there and our mid level lower belts would do kata and sparring at much better skill levels. The BS just never stops out there.
Careful what you believe. Gotta sift through so much BS that is out there. BJJ is another one. Effective yes, but it is interesting how well Olympic wrestlers do vs them.
If not for MMA and cage fighting, we might have never known how silly these martial arts are.
Real
Even MMA and cage fighting are not real streets/war combat. In a setting without ANY rules or referees is "Real".
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
A lot of them like Frank Dux plagerize Count Dante adverts that where in the back of old comics.
Dante made claims long before Dux.
Bullshit claims by both.
Dante is the Originator of Frank Dux's Kumite Tales
Tbh Kata Dante - Dance of Death is a fantastic name. Sound like a video game or a metal album
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.
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
What about Rex Kwan Do! (From Napoleon Dynamite 😂😂😂). Bow to your sensei!!
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.
Ninjutsu is not legit. Historically it is super dubious, and there is a reason no-one can demonstrate actually effective ninjutsu today.
@@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.
@@lastmanstanding5423
All you have to do is a modicum of research to realize this is not true. Just research the Iga and Koga villages.
@@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.
@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
On a side note, it's *kyūsho jutsu. Not that it matters much as it is indeed BS.
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
Masaaki Sensei is legit.
No he really isn’t, he’s a big time fraud that many others copied...
A lot of Masaaki’s techniques work though.
@@noahprice9540 against compliant uke yes, but in real life no they really don't...
At least they work against weapons.
@@noahprice9540 no they don't work, they'd get you killed!!! Hatsumi is a fraud teaching watered down kobudo and jujutsu...
I attended a seminar with Neil Adams, Jeff Thompson plus other top instructors and Dillman was one of them. His pressure point training did work but I came across similiar techniques in Shirinji kenpo. Dillman was really arrogant and very unfriendly to the attendees when not instructing. He did seems to be a POS this video made me chuckle.
None of them can compare to bullshido grandmaster steven segal!!!
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.
5:50 had me rolling on the floor
He didn't have jedi powers... 😔
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
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
Steven Seagal...
James Randi is a hero of mine remember seeing him doing the debunk at the time
I think you mean "was" a hero of yours, 'cause he died ages ago.
Hey man, Master Ken realizes the true value of a groin... and destroys it.
oh wow i never heard of heydrich after randi proved him a fraud. i never expected him to turn out like THAT
Bear in mind that *James Hydrick* was in & out of prisons _before_ he became "famous" for his psychic & Martial Art showmanship.
@@adamkane7513
And Black Belt magazine still put Hydricks on the cover. Class-A journalism.
The thing about George Dillman was that he wasn't always like that. Aside from being a competitive fighter and good instructor, my master's grandmaster said he used to train and teach with him. He just probably lost it somewhere down that journey, fame can really get to your head sometimes
Master Ken is the only 11th degree Master! (I do enjoy watching his videos). However, there have been many self proclaimed wingnuts for decades, maybe centuries.
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 😂
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.
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.
I started when I was 9 I am 45 my step dad was an instructor and his teacher ran out school goju ryu I am probably about as good as they were at there prime both of them have been dead for years i am not any where good enough to run my dad and masters school teaching is a lot harder than just practicing and learning 3rd Dan was as high as I got
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.
Same here, its one of Skall's funniest videos.
Skallagrim is awesome! I've gotta check that one out.
there's 2. One more jokey, the next having to settle people down.@@bryanmuster5662
The worst bullshido master was bernd schwarwait from north germany, fake 11 dan in ninjutsu given by himself and his frinds, own clappingroom for his female students under 18 his school was more like a sekt as Colonia Dignidad. those where the 80 noone in the small towns in germany was firm about MMA-Karate Ninjutsu and we all thougt he is the sensei he will care about us. My two uncles came home from france both ww 2 veterans saw what happens came to his Dojo kicked him out and schooled us. im very gratefull to them since today. i never grew to a champion but it helped me to survive 2 Wars and many minor conflicts. their motto about the many many martial arts raised in the 80s was la survie donne raison or survival proves right. hope you enjoyed this historic story from the start of the new martial arts there where only ppl like karate tommy a well known pimp from hamburg reeperbahn, bruce lee in the cinemas, david caradine in the tv and later came michael dudikoff as american niinja it was hard to find serious trainers. hope for all who are watching this video of the bullshido master to find a good sensei wich brings the best out of the person he traines and not these humungus in the video. have fun all.
I am about Average in Martial Arts, I practice Martial Arts to defend myself from what is taking place today: Best advise when a person trains to their what they are capable of dong they themselves is doing their best !!!
Don't you dare disrespecting Master Ken! 😂
Besides, he didn't end w the stomp to the groin👍
Master Ken is the real deal,after all he created the "Thrust Of Freedom" technique.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
Thanks for another great video Rokas!
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Hey, all these other people agreed. But Count Dante is different. He was an effin' badass and his sideburns were always on point. Dude was a mid-level mafio Irish hairdresser. He would involuntarily Kumité a rival dojo and you know somebody was gettin' Dim'makked. Con man, Yes. Criminal, certainly. Fake badass?Absolutely not! Count Dante would put his hands on ya...hands of death!
6. Steven Segal from the 80's
5. Steven Segal from the 90's
4. Steven Segal from the 2000's
3. Steven Segal from the 2010's
2. Do you get it now?
1. For your parents' sake, I hope you do.
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.
Yes, I believe Dan Inosanto used that technique in Game Of Death.
Bujinkan guys like that is why no one takes the art seriously... Waaay too many McDojos in it.
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 don't care what is said about the other people in this video but Masaaki Hatsumi is almost 80 something there but his style of ninjutstu is a real style passed down for hundreds of years. Tokagure Ryu ninjutstu. I studied it myself along with koga ryu ninjutsu and the Chinese ninjutsu Lin Kuei (quay). Hatsumi is definitely real. The only way to obtain your black belt is to know when the sword is swung down and avoid it. By real concentration on your surroundings and energy not the guy in the video that just keeps moving out of fear. Ki is real whether people choose to believe it or not.
What about Georges arch nemesis The Tongue Master. He teaches his students on way of the tongue. George fears the deadly technique of the french kiss!
Dillman at one time was a real Karate Sensei. He even wrote some great kata application books. But.,, then he started this garbage is is known for. And rather than good karate teacher, he will be known the way he is now. And he has hurt all honest karate ka.
Great content man👍 keep exposing these frauds! Heads up for the scary guys, and love watching the funny ones😄
"Ritual whorehouse combat"
I almost died when I heard that.
Must have been intense...
It's the future of war.
I almost died when I tried it.
@@ZovcDrafts You're a brave soul. Keep fighting the good fight.
How do I get that gig?
Oooh
May I ask.
My wife and I who are both martial artist recently had a conversation about the cult like structure of a lot of martial arts.
Some martial art masters even relying on a cult of personality for their success.
100% The power and authority structure often promoted in martial arts can easily create space for a cult leader
@@MartialArtsJourney Absolutely. I have had the misfortune of coming across some ... "Masters" who practically self deify. Sadly they have some students that see them in that sort of light.
Also. Awesome work. The USDC is a riot.. I need to lose some pandemic weight and would love to have a go at this one day.
Real martial arts with properly taught techniques aside. There is alot of cult like behaviour in some schools of the m.arts.
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!
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.
i train goju ryu as well, what exact did you realise was bs? just asking so I can check myself hahah
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
Goju is awesome. Real okinawan toudi
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.
Not saying Goju is not legit. Im saying my instructor, and my maturity at the time, were not legit.@@RoyalFizzbin
My favorites are the "no touch masters". As much as I wish I could do a hadouken it's securely in the realm of fiction.
try not brushing your teeth for a few days
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 🙏
You forgot Steven Seagal, who deserves to be on this list, because he used his celebrity to commit acts of sexual assault, including holding two women against their will and forcing them to serve as his sex slaves/maids, his work being a Putin supporter, and his support of the Russian military in their war against Ukraine, though that one may actually be a good thing, because the Russian have waisted a lot of resources on his idiocy.
Also his entire style of martial arts is BS.
0:35 - Ok. This first dude must be where they got Dwight's fighting style from in that one episode of The Office. . .
Classifying voluntary sex between consenting adults, no matter how stupid the narrative used to enter the sexual union, as r*pe does a massive disservice to cases of actual forced encounters. Unlike in real r*pe, the women who chose to bang the 'sensei' absolutely do bear a big chunk of the blame.
Ok I can tell you got certain that pressure points do work! But George went to the far dark side in his later years and really started doing stupid stuff just to try to get attention. But pressure points do work. I was a doubter, but after seeing it and feeling it in person....it made me a believer. The other crap George does now is just that... Crap.
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)
The guy that got exposed blowing the page of the phone book to move it. He should have still moved the page like he always does and when the pieces the skeptic put down also move from him blowing he should have said, of course the pieces around the phone book moved, it was discharge of my chi energy hitting the page
Kim's "challenge" fee is just that: a fee YOU pay for the honor of fighting him. You also have to pay to fly him and his friends out to you and pay for their hotel and dining.
Hilariously enough, a group of people once pooled the money together and issued the challenge to him! He did not show up.
Ask a Ninja...? LOL...Reminds me of that lovely set of gems...
Steven segal should be in this list.
He is actually a blackbelt in ikido, but he has claimed to be capable of much more than he is, and has a bad sense of ethics.
My favourite has to be the no-touch stuff. It's fascinating because it's not just one guy involved, but a group of students. I never did figure out if they were in on the con, or if it was more a cult style following.
Its kinda sad seeing fraudsters like these who destroys the reputations of actual fight forms.
And people who fall for this BS.
Master Dux and Master Kim deserve respect, Considering they blew up the Death Star twice!
This reminds me of my wife. does everything she can to convince me she's a good wife in short of actually doing literally anything
I fainted just watching a George Dillman video. Powerful stuff indeed.
Ok I trained in bujinkan budo when I was younger and I did effectively apply the movement I had learnt from the Form of self defence. If proper taught with the right heart, it is very effective in protecting ones self and others within good justice. Belts hold pants up
The black belt hall of fame from Black Belt magazine is a joke. Don't take that seriously friend.
Pressure points do work but not even close to the way dillman shows them. They're more used in helping to loosen your opponents grip on you.