Posted by AntiMoo Myth Dispeller on September 18, 2003 at 00:15:19:
In Reply to: Re: TTT: The Tape and The Prodigy posted by KC Elbows on September 17, 2003 at 21:28:13:
'I never inferred Alex's reason for leaving, you did.'
True you did not infer it, you stated outright
'One day, Alex decided that being a moo instructor was not making him
a better person, so he just left. '
This not only states why he left, but also would lead anyone familiar with ChungM00 to believe that the guy was at least 1st degree.
'If the form and techniques at schools is as shoddy as yourself and other anti-moos claim, why did such a stellar martial artist as
you claim this student was remain in training long enough to achieve 1st or 2nd degree?''
'I made no suppositions about the depth of his earlier training, nor did I comment on moo training, nor do I support your guesses
at rank. I referred to him as a prodigy because he was considered one by others there. He was a prodigy at moo arts. That was my
only supposition of him at that time.'
So did you ever hear that to be a ChungM00 instructor you had to be a certain rank. If you like most did then it would be reasonable to believe he had trained to at least first degree.
I tire of your word games. I don't even think that they are about the same guy.
If you insist that it is, well you wrote the article, and you posted about him here.
'nor did I comment on moo training' What? Since When? I can see easily pages and pages throughout this site alone where you have commented and discussed quite a bit about ChungM00 training.
Like I said, you brought your friends name into this (if you even know the guy at all)
I honestly have my doubts that you know Joe J. and Frank K. even.
And there are plenty of posts where you and other anti-moos state that no one with any decent previous training would be fooled by ChungM00.
So you have offered statements that infer somethings about his previous training. Because it doesn't suit the tack your taking now doesn't mean it wasn't posted.
So if you think that I am even going to attempt to dicuss any of this based soley on what you offered in the unrealisticilly sentimental 'Tape and Prodigy' article.
I thought it was kind of revealing, that you hold JBarfield as some paradigm in the one story about Alex and then act as if a martial arts business may have done wrong portraying a decent instructor in a positive light and compared his performance to that of what would appear to be fumbling, less accomplished attempt at the same forms by less skilled martial artists.
I particularly like'Jerry Barfield doing the
same forms fresh as a daisy, in a nice uniform untainted by the
sweat of effort. '
Meaning that he was doing these forms that well without even a warmup? That's pretty good, in case you still insist on playing dumb, people usually do forms better after some warmup, stretching etc.
I still doubt it's the same Alex guy that studied from Kam Yuen in 72 and has a school in Minnesota. Do you know him? Where did you train with him?
Sounds more like something that you want to look into getting into, sort of like a rare style of martial arts that people really don't know much about, no I can't tell you the instructors but what about this guy over here he's ....'
Gotcha
Now I'm over your ridiculous attempt to twist meanings.
If you don't like the way Joe J. or Frank K. treated people who liked an ex teacher ways, well, too bad. Why can't you go dicuss it with them? Heh heh. That most likely answer to that is pretty obvious.
Just think, they are still doing as they like and you are still whining about it here, years later.
Oops gotta go
Later Money