Posted by RD School of Whatever (dragon@vail) on October 13, 2003 at 18:03:41:
The stories that Russell Johnson has posted over the years are funny.
At first he would lead you to believe that he practiced in a martial art for 8 years and couldn't do 100 circular pushups without having to have an operation as a result.
Has anyone else ever heard of 100 pushups damaging a student in this way?
Has anyone in any other org (high school, college athletics, military, other martial arts) ever heard of 100 pushups damaging an individual in this way?
Also, some of the stories paint him as being in Chung Moo for 8 years and being an assistant instructor?
I have read here and on other slander sites that he should have been a 3rd Dgree by his third year? Which is true? Or are either of them.
Does this guy have credibility?
Also even if he had never practiced, is 100 pushups likely to damage him to this degree.
From the stories he has posted, Delbert or Russell, (lets call him RD to make this easier) has led people to believe that this school enslaved him, ruined his life and more.
However, by examining his stories RD himself provides evidence that raises questions.
RD claims that he has eight years, then later, more honestly admits that he has known of the schools for eight years and enrolled and quit several times over that 8 year time period.
RD did not quit after the incident with 100 pushups but, by his own admission, stayed enrolled for a year after that and quit when others were promoted faster than he. Could they do a leat 100 pushups or more important, could they do martial arts forms better than he?
RD claims that the schools helped him quit doing drugs. Whoever did this please contact the proper authorities. If what you detractor RD says is true you, then have too much to offer humanity to be unkown.
If they got RD off of drugs, well, he is way ahead of a lot of famous people who have died from drugs.
If they then ruined his health with 100 pushups one day, why did he, by his own admission stay with them for another year? Did he get better?
Is he off of drugs now?
Also, I read that before he went to Chung Moo, he lived in housing projects in Minneapolis, then moved out to a nicer neighborhood.
Is he back on public assistance now?
Does RD have any other deficiencies other than the physical and mental problems he has posted about?