If you’ve been in martial arts for any length of time you’ve probably come across more than your share of “masters”; people making grand and usually false, claims about their liability of martial lineage to take advantage of the general public. Most rely on the ignorance of the average person to peddle their martial arts wares. They make use of the mystery surrounding the arts to overawe, and hopefully, overwhelm the prospective martial art student. Most are relatively harmless. The new student shells out his hard-earned cash for a few months until he realizes that he is not getting his money’s worth .
If you’ve been in martial arts for any length of time you’ve probably come across more than your share of “masters”; people making grand and usually false, claims about their liability of martial lineage to take advantage of the general public. Most rely on the ignorance of the average person to peddle their martial arts wares. They make use of the mystery surrounding the arts to overawe, and hopefully, overwhelm the prospective martial art student. Most are relatively harmless. The new student shells out his hard-earned cash for a few months until he realizes that he is not getting his money’s worth .Then he leaves , usually with a bad taste in mouth and very little good to say about the martial arts in general. The would be martial artist is then faced with a sizeable dilemma: With so many so called masters out there, each making claims more impressive then the next, how you know that your master is for real?
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