Posted by KC Elbows on February 20, 2003 at 08:50:44:
In Reply to: Re: pitiful Mooo posted by S0nic on February 20, 2003 at 08:29:52:
'And also some of the best pure fighters, up to a point, haven't always been what I would consider the most enlightened beings I have met.'
True enough.
They are generally a decent bunch. But what they're selling, Kim as Grandmaster and progenitor of wisdom, skill, and goodness, doesn't pan out. They do have a good workout ethic(or did when I was in). And you can learn the same stuff without supporting Kim, as there's plenty of folk that know the moo curriculum. Really, there's no area where you can join the main org where you can't also join a Rogue school. I cannot guarantee their quality, but at least your money wouldn't be supporting Kim, but would be supporting the school you go to, and the school owners that you like.
I mean, really, you seem like a smart enough guy- do you really believe that Kim is jumping off an 11 story building in that pic? On purpose? In broad daylight? And yet, no one saw it and said 'Holy smokes!'? Just seems a little sketchy to me. And the All Asia thing. How come neither the PRC or the Koumintang bothered to send their best known fighters to a competition that supposedly decided who was the best in all of Asia? I mean, none of the best known fighters are listed, so where were they? What about the old brochures, with claims of a Hawaii school, a Guam school, a Tokyo school. How come a student of the Hawaii schools never comes on here to defend the moo, or to attack them? Doesn't it seem a bit likely that no such school ever existed, since no one has ever seen it or been to it? And what's up with Tokyo, John Kim can't even own property in Tokyo because he's a foreigner, so how did he open his school? And how come none of the people I've spoken to from that area ever saw such a school?
Anyway, I'll take a break on this for ya. I can understand liking the instructors, but Kim is just shrouded in rediculous stories, he'll never be free of them, and he doesn't appear to be even trying to come clean. To use his phrasing, giving him money for a rep he's not able to back would be him 'taking advantage'.