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The craziest thing I ever saw was a wing chun guy in Tulsa named Josh Jones that told me, over the course of 6 years that: he was a doctor of Chinese medicine, he was part of the IDF, he was a CIA operative, he was a killer for the mafia, he played guitar for Ozzy Osbourne, he could change his body weight with his “‘mind powers”, he could manipulate electricity with his mind, that he was a “foretold white man” raised by a ninja clan (so Beverly Hills Ninja in real life?), he had a fan club in Eastern Europe that tracked his movements, and he killed a bull with his bare hands at 5 years old. Yet despite all this he was a man in his mid-30s that lived with his parents and was always broke.
I know someone very similar but he also claims to be an immortal 2800 years old with psychic powers. That is plain mental illness - schizotypal disorder I think.
I had an old Kung-Fu instructor who said his students win a lot of tournaments. The technique was to "accidentally" nut kick the opponent and take the warning. Then fake another nut shot after the poor SOB recovered, while they go to defend, go for a winning shot. IMO that is not a very honorable way to "win" a tournament fight, but I do think it was funny to hear how they "won" so much.
Freshman year of highschool my buddy had a video of guys like this. Him and his dad were big into martial arts. His dad some how came across this vhs ( some no touch knockout guy you've covered) but kept it locked up in a safe because he thought if we watched it we'd test things out on each other. Thankfully even at that age I felt something was a bit fishy
Damn this guy is next level, he started selling chi infused merch, genius idea! The craziest thing I've seen irl, was my first TKD instructor who used to yell at small children and adults when he didn't like something in class. Literally unhinged.
Craziest thing I have seen was when I was reffing a bjj match. There was a pretty good size difference between the two ladies and the one who initiated the takedown drove forward and the other girl posted her arm instead of breakfalling. Then i saw and heard the arm snap. I stopped the match immediately and the girl who broke her arm was like "why did you stop it bro" I responded with I'm pretty sure you arm is broken and you don't want to look at it. Needless to say we called an ambulance, carted her off and then continued with the next bracket 😅
Was on a IBJJF seminar once and the lecturer was a seasoned purple belt with around 150 matches. He told a story where he was spectating a match in Brazil and one of the two guys landed in an armbar and his arm got snapped. But he didnt tap or verbally tap, so the ref just let the fight go and he nonchalantly CONTINUED with a snapped arm until the ref noticed somethings wrong with his flailing arm XD
When I was in high school, a bunch of friends of mine and I all trained in different types of martial arts and different schools. Occasionally we would visit each other's schools just to see what was going on and what they were doing in case we wanted to cross train. It usually ended up leading to that. The craziest thing I ever saw was when I went to a place that was teaching ninjutsu. I probably should have known better but.... They had this old man who they called Grand Master such and such blah blah blah... He had a whole bunch of people stand in a big line and he gently touched the first person and then halfway through the line. Somebody would fly out of the line like they were hit with a bunch of energy. A couple of my friends and I asked to be a part of it but we're told it was too dangerous. Needless to say, we gave our friend who is in that school a lot of teasing and ragging over the next couple years. It was the source of a lot of laughter when we would go out for beers. But that was definitely the craziest thing I ever saw and this guy kind of reminded me of him.
When I was teaching in California in 1982-3ish my teacher was a well you’d call him a tyrant today. If we really messed up teaching and he was pissed enough he would kick everyone out of the school, lock the door, pull the blinds and beat the offending teacher from one end of the mat to the other. When said teacher had recovered enough the school was unlocked and students were let back in. He was a 6’4 muscle bound biker and was freaking terrifying! That was the craziest thing I have seen in a martial arts school. Happened too often.
That's going to get Someone Hurt ! Im getting back into training im going to get back to my Italian roots & Do some Boxing. The Greco Roman Wrestling hurt my back when i was younger. Tangsoodo was fun, I have Solid boxing Gym near me & Sambo Systema school. Bryant Perrella Boxing 🥊🥊 he's awesome 👍😎🙏 God bless a lot of martial arts is getting watered down.
I had an instructor who claimed that he could grow the length of his arms using chi. He held his hand out with his elbow down and tucked in (tan sao in wing chun) and would measure from his inner elbow to the end of his fingers using his other hand spreading his thumb and little finger out.He would get one measurement before he started, and a longer measurement once he was supposedly complete. I noticed by trying it on myself that the exact angle that you held the arm mattered. If you picked the same starting point on your skin, but varied the angle of the arm even slightly, It would make a massive difference in the final measurement. This is because why the point you start at on your skin seems to remain in the same position it is actually moving over your muscles and changes anatomical position thus changing the starting location of the measurement. I told him I didn't believe it and that the change in measurement is due to the angle change and an imprecise measuring tool (his hand). So he got a tape measure and I got someone to assist me in holding his arm at the exact correct angle while I measured it and he couldn't reproduce the reaction. His excuse for this was that he was tired from doing it too many times before. He never offered to test it again, and never mentioned that during a class again as long as I was at the school.
How long did you stay in the class and was there any other suspicious (bushido) teaching that he did? Because it sounds like you called him on his bullshit but still felt he was worth getting classes from.
@Michael K-bomb he was a good instructor overall. I had been training with another instructor for about 9 years at that point and he wanted me to cross train somewhere else to brush up on my basics. So I joined this particular school. Going back to basics was good and the instructor definitely helped me improve my skills, but he definitely had some closeted weird beliefs. I was at the school for about 2 years when that came up, and I was there another 2 years after that. There was nothing else he really pushed that was BS other than the idea that wing chun alone is the ultimate art. I love doing wing chun, but I also train in grappling and more long range kicking focused arts because I know it has holes that need to be addressed.
@@neizha Oh, OK. See I thought you would have been pretty new to it and didn't know any better. But, fair enough that he didn't push any other BS and you just all moved on from it and you didn't suspect he was a hack as he still had something to offer. But, it's interesting how it's not just talentless teachers who would push the BS.
Craziest thing was watching "Dr" John Tourette of the Medford OR. Kenpo school move clouds with his powerful Chi magic. I'm pretty sure you featured that on your channel here although I can't find the clip anymore on TH-cam
The craziest thing in martial arts that I saw was about 25 years ago. My once step dad claimed he had all kinds of black belts and mastered a bunch of different martial arts. My older brother, who was a thug type guy, and he got into an argument at a restaurant that escalated to them both going outside to the parking lot. My step dad started doing the poses and nonsense "dances" that you see before fights in the old english dubbed kung fu movies, and my brother just laid into him with a nice hook. From there on, it just wasn't too pretty. Step dad tried to do wing chun type punch deflection and grabs but just kept getting annihilated. I think he got two hits in that looked pathetic, and my brother later told me he didn't even feel. I think about that day and wish so badly that everyone had cell phones with cameras like we do now for just that one day. It was gloriously hilarious, I bet that old step dad had a mastery of this martial art as well.
Any Man who gets involved with a single mother should expect such occurrences. If she couldn't treat the Father of her children with respect, how's she going to treat her new Man?
The craziest thing I have seen but was not bullshit is when I lived in Beijing and studied Shuai Jiao under some very respected experts. One well known instructor would hold a 30-foot cylinder type of banner type thing. I think it was made from bamboo. He could hold it on the tip of his thumb without moving his body. Also, he would tilt his head up and balance it on his chin again never moving his body. It would just stay in place. I have pics of it in an old kung fu tai chi magazine article I wrote on Shuai Jiao.
Craziest thing I've seen... I haven't been in any training for years and have less experience than most. I find it crazy that there's so much easily available evidence that most this weird stuff is fake but people still believe it and try to do fancy movements they see in movies. Having said that PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER, itty bitty living space.
Just saw your Operation Smile commercial pop up on TV during the playoffs. Was surprised to see you there, Rob, but congrats and I commend your work with them.
I've seen quite a few crazy things over the years, so it's hard to pick one! The first one that comes to mind was a demonstration at a tournament in Detroit somewhere in the late '90s. A martial arts master had a glass bottle on the floor. He shattered it with a left foot stomp and then pivoted in the broken glass while breaking a board with a right roundhouse kick. I've done a lot of pain endurance and sideshow skills, but I'm not willing to try that one!
Question of the day: I saw my mui Thai/kempo instructor go three rounds with an 20 year old training for a semi pro BJJ match... Then do a 40 minute class with me and another full hour class... I know I know non of that magic chi shit but the dude was already in his 40s... That's pretty magical to me haha
Craziest was when a guy brought a live kitchen knife to a tournament for competing in weapon forms division. Fortunately, he was not allowed to. I wish we could have seen the guy in the video fight Dillman. Probably wouldn't have a winner, but it would be fun.
At 09:04 i love the way the student on the far right looks behing him, beeing ejected by Chi is ok, but a broken ankle by falling from the stage : nope nope 😂
Radford Davis's levitation still makes me grin, any time I witness it. Either that, or the same guy's interpretation of 'kata Dante'. Then again, old Georgie boy's "tongue in the wrong place" excuse, combined with the "guy was a total unveliever", reasons why Leon Jay was unable to magic a journalist. Worth bearing in mind though, as a 'complete' martial artist: wiggling your toes, and tongue may be brilliant self defence concepts. Huge thank you for brightening my day...💙🤪💙🤪💙🤪💙🤪💙🤪💙
Craziest thing I’ve ever seen in martial arts… crazy good or crazy bad? I love seeing the look on students faces when they apply a technique and it works. That bit of joy, that “ah-ha!” moment, that look of “Oh this is REAL!” There’s nothing like it. That’s my good thing. Bad thing? I once saw a guy use improper technique and put his sword through his bicep
We actually had this other "master" invited into our school once, and he did that thing where everyone lines up and pushes on the back of the person in front of them. It wasn't no touch nonsense, he was holding his ground, but it was also definitely a bit of a parlour trick. Basically, it's not one stream of force. If you push hard enough, the person in front of you will struggle to keep their arms straight, and the person in front probably doesn't want to be a dick about it. Anyway, as I recall, he came to "adjust" my form a few times because I was actually pushing with a little force.
Craziest thing I've seen in any MMA was watching 3 guys in a row, of the local boxing match, loose some teeth and get KO'ed. That, and seeing my broken ankle after a kumikata session went very bad.
I think it would be cool to see a map with pins showing the location of where these 'masters' are based. I'm pretty sure I can guess where the highest densities of their schools would be, but it would still be fun to see it.
About 20 years ago a friend of mine invited me to go and see him in a Kung Fu tournament in IL. We had bonded over practicing Martial Arts I had been doing TKD for about 7 years and he had been doing Kung Fu about about 3 years. Anyway, we went to a Kung Fu tournament outside of Chicago, IL and there was weapons, forms and sparring. All of which was fun to watch. However when the Masters demo started thats when all the crazy happened. There was normal stuff like ice breaks and brick breaks, but there was one guy that did these pressure point knock outs by just touch people on shoulder like Spock. Everything was cool up until this load of bologna.
Back in the 90's when I was teaching a guy walked in wanting to have a challenge fight. Before I could dissuade him and begin a conversation, he gets naked. Luckily it was an adult class. In his defense, I did not want to engage naked man. So he won that round. When I was young, I too made cool DBZ and Mortal Kombat sounds when sparring. Maybe this guy is just a big fan of anime.
The craziest thing I ever witnessed was during a demo. The “master” had 1 of his students, who was a minor, meditate with his body lying between 2 chairs(1 at the head and the other at the feet.) The master then balanced an apple on the minor student’s throat and cut the apple in half with a katana. This was almost 30 years ago and I was a student myself and a minor and I was absolutely horrified. He was my master as well and I left soon after. I almost never practiced again because of that.
I suppose the craziest thing I have seen is people's will to keep fighting even when they are very clearly done. In my competitive days I saw fighters pleading with the ref to ignore their injuries and allow them to keep fighting. When I compare that dedication to that of other sports it just seems crazy. One sport the athlete is trying their best to downplay their injuries and every other sport they are doing the opposite
How about one of those have somebody that's not their students go in there and try attacking them and see if they could stop before you pump into the ground and knock em out by punching him in the face and just tackling them can you stop it now
They've done in other of these crazy dojos put your tongue in the right spot or toes it doesn't work. Professional wrestling is the ultimate self defense compared out of these guys
My old Kenpo instructors were a husband and wife team he would spar with us but she refused to she had the biggest EGO I have ever seen in a person I finally asked her at 1st degree Brown Belt level to spar with me when she said NO, I then asked her why she refuses to spar with anyone she said and i quote " I do not want to hurt anyone" i then said and I quote myself "if your really that good you should be able to control your Punches and Kicks so no one gets hurt" and I walked back to my students that I was teaching in her school. I was there for a little over 5 years and when I left she never did spar anyone else I kept in touch with another Instructor or Coach as what we was called and she never did spar with anyone. EGO....
When I was in college PhD = Piled Higher n Deeper. It was after Star Warts May-the -force-be-with-you Yoda, that this Ki or Qigongs, the Bullshido begin to be piled higher and deeper. Actually, the record was way back when a bunch of Kung Fu masters who thought they were invincible to bullets started the boxer rebellion in China. Into the present, Putin just played the world's mind last week; we kept guessing his moves like pieces on a chess board.
Got kicked out of white belt karate when I was like 5. My brother was 7. They taught us front kicks and some horse stance and basic punches. The sense told us to spar but it was "self dee fence!" (We had to yell it like that that several times before each class) so we needed to fight to win quickly. My brother came in and I front kicked him (knee extension not a teep) strait to the sack as hard as I could... He asked me, "why did you do that!" I said, "you said fight to win quick". They didn't let me back. 😂
And to answer the question, craziest thing I’ve seen was a security guard round house my friend (who was 17 at the time) in line at a mod def concert in 02, then the guy who stood up for us got arrested. While he was in handcuffs the security guard socked him dead in the face, and still did not get arrested. Not exactly a dojo story, but crazy a grown man could attack some kids in line at a concert in front of witnesses. We still got to see the concert so that’s ok.
I like that he has a linkedIn page, a twitter account with 9 followers on which he claims to have helped someone recover from a stroke but I still can't find a site where I can buy a t-shirt and I totally want one of those t-shirts.
Ninja Bob is one of craziest people I ever met, who believed he was a real ninja because he took out admin a ninja tabloid, and then decided to attack the school I was in at the time. I also knew a martial arts who had an ovetwhelming Messiah complex while taking on the persona of a character from a time store novel called the destroyer series. And I have also seen a martial arts school in Toronto. Called 'Crazy Bob's House of Death.' this is real ...He is still there as far as I know. There was also a supposed kungfu school once called "the Sacred Sword". There believed in the Qi energy as a defense stuff. They were pretty out there. The instructor told me that if he thought about the colour Blue, noone could hit him, they would miss. I met some fun people during my travels over my career in the arts.
I used to train with a Chinese guy whose parents could afford to send him around the world to train with the "top chi masters", meaning they wre recognized by the Chinese Gov as physicians and top martial artists. If anyone was a "master of chi" it was him and he would be the first to debunk any of these extraordinary claims. If anything, Chi, is proper breathing mixed with focused intent, a technique to refine power. The only real "magic" is perhaps, biofeedback in the form of heat energy.
Its dropping your mass though the soft tissue in your body and connecting all the fascia, mixed with Yi (mind intent). Its an extremely awesome way of moving, not relying on external muscles...but rather the internal soft tissue. There are bullshitters...but a lot of the masters are still around. I have met them and touched hands...I have been doing Sanda / San shou for over 20 years. I could not move them or pick them up.
@@saschamarr495 Yeah, I studied a little San Shou and Tai Chi/Chi Kung and that's pretty much it, a deeper way of using your body as one. I met a Hsing YI teacher once and he told me the weird postures they use are designed to "engage" the internal organs. He was smaller than me 5'5" and could buckle a heavy bag lol
@@chocomalk Its amazing stuff hey :) Its just crazy that some folks believe its total BS and the other side believes it can move mountains. Its in the middle somewhere and is not "better" than moving externally... its just a different way to move. Take care
I saw a guy get upset and try to do a Patrick Swayze throat rip from Roadhouse. It just ended up being weird and escalated into a real fight haha. Still funny though
I saw Rico Rodriguez come into my academy when I was a white belt and he had beef with my Instructor Paulo Guillobel. Some old rivalry or something. Rico got choked out, I mean out out, and came to then pounded the mat. He looked around in silence and grabbed his things and left. I didn't know what was happening so I just shut up and observed...
Years ago, I saw a Tang Soo Do instructor (Andy Ah Po) prepare to spar with two opponents: one in front, one behind. As he threw a reverse punch to his frontal opponent, he cut this nasty, hair-ripping fart which promptly knocked his rear opponent to the ground. To this day, I refer to that as the "1-2 Punch of Doom".
When I was a kid, I attended total of two Wing-Chun classes in my area. Well, instead of learning techniques, working out or other form of martial training, the instructor just told us to chase each other across the gym the whole time while yelling "lemon"... I never went there again 😅 So that's my, not really crazy, but still a strange martial arts story.
Craziest thing I ever saw in martial arts was these two guys flying around, and the bad guy he hit the planet they were fighting on so hard, it was going to explode in five minutes. Those five minutes took like three weeks to pass. The whole time both guys were shouting and screaming and beating the hell out of each other. Finally the good guy stole the bad guys space ship, and got out of there with like three seconds to spare, and the planet blew up with the bad guy still on it, but he didn't even die. He just shrugged that shit off, put some robot parts on, and showed up at the good guys home planet, then got chopped in half with a sword and exploded.
I'd like to see one famous "energy master" challenge another famous "energy master" to see which one has to elect to fall down or against a wall and throw away their reputation/system/ and ultimately, their income from grifting.
Man you are awesome I love the way you call out these people that think the world runs on unicorn farts and rainbow juice it’s kinda sad that they are still allowed to cheat poor people who don’t know any better
This guy & several similar "chi" demonstrations, mostly from Aikido & T'ai Ch'i, are the craziest things I have seen because I don't understand how the "master" gets his students to go along with the charade. On the other hand, I have broken a broad-head arrow against my trachea (point in a thick piece of leather) more than once & between the trachea of me & a female partner we folded a 4 foot piece of half inch reinforcing bar in half so flat we could hug. I don't know how that worked. We were, of course, using "chi" or "Nuum" or maybe it was some "wt?" & no one was hurt, etc. I don't know what the trick was but it was interesting at the time. So .... how do they get the students to go along with the charade?
Craziest thing? Extinguishing a candle with a sword strike. Not magic at all, but pretty cool. Honestly I'm fortunate, most of the martial arts teachers and training partners I've worked with have been pretty sensible, practical people.
I think the craziest thing I've seen in martial arts is the video of that karate guy who smacks the kid on the neck during an assembly and I believe killed or put that person into a coma
Ok two things I have seen ok in 1993 I saw this karate teacher do gun disarm and I said man I want to do that number I was involved my first day of karate from the teacher that did the gun disarm he ask me to punch him and well I'm good boxer I said as 14yrs would say if I hit u I hit u he laughed next thing I know I see my feet in the air so yeah don't get to cocky
Full scale martial arts fighting of 4 schools in a old boxing gym, wrestling 4 dudes lol, also I perform with a flaming ,4 wick 3 section staff. Other performers I have seen with flame swords and rope darts etc. And my old Taekwondo instructor would get way drunk and fight people at bars lol.
how do guys like this recruit and convince their students and followers? like whats the process like, its hard to imagine that right away a new student would be playing along? idk. maybe you have a video talking about this already
Omg thank you Joe Rogan for leading me to this channel. I pissed myself at 1:20 when they were walking around the house, coordination, omg hahahahahahaha i cant
Honestly, I think just the speed at which I've seen some Martial Artists react is the craziest thing I've ever seen them do. At least as far as stuff that's real and legit. You know what really gets me on some of these martial arts teachers that can "use the power of Chi to keep enemies from attacking" is just how blatantly fake it is. Like how does anyone look at any of this stuff and not just think "Okay, now why don't you try actually hitting him this time instead of just standing still?
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Honest question how do people actually fall for this nonsense?
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The craziest thing I ever saw was a wing chun guy in Tulsa named Josh Jones that told me, over the course of 6 years that: he was a doctor of Chinese medicine, he was part of the IDF, he was a CIA operative, he was a killer for the mafia, he played guitar for Ozzy Osbourne, he could change his body weight with his “‘mind powers”, he could manipulate electricity with his mind, that he was a “foretold white man” raised by a ninja clan (so Beverly Hills Ninja in real life?), he had a fan club in Eastern Europe that tracked his movements, and he killed a bull with his bare hands at 5 years old. Yet despite all this he was a man in his mid-30s that lived with his parents and was always broke.
I know someone very similar but he also claims to be an immortal 2800 years old with psychic powers. That is plain mental illness - schizotypal disorder I think.
@notfiveo Let's just say his name is Josh J., wait that's too obvious, let's call him J. Jones.
I know one of those in my town too
Sensei Seagal??
@@juanl7766I also thought that was gonna be the punchline. Steven Seagal.
These never get old. Timeless.
Cornpopped em
I had an old Kung-Fu instructor who said his students win a lot of tournaments. The technique was to "accidentally" nut kick the opponent and take the warning. Then fake another nut shot after the poor SOB recovered, while they go to defend, go for a winning shot. IMO that is not a very honorable way to "win" a tournament fight, but I do think it was funny to hear how they "won" so much.
Smart 😂
I am amazed that you never run out of this type of material to use, especially in this time and age.
This is by far, my favorite channel on TH-cam…great work!
Truly the Coffeezilla of martial arts. Love your content man!
This is a fucking gold mine of comedy.
Freshman year of highschool my buddy had a video of guys like this. Him and his dad were big into martial arts. His dad some how came across this vhs ( some no touch knockout guy you've covered) but kept it locked up in a safe because he thought if we watched it we'd test things out on each other. Thankfully even at that age I felt something was a bit fishy
Damn this guy is next level, he started selling chi infused merch, genius idea!
The craziest thing I've seen irl, was my first TKD instructor who used to yell at small children and adults when he didn't like something in class. Literally unhinged.
Every time I watch your videos, I see another new reading martial arts. Keep it up. You are awesome.
Craziest thing I have seen was when I was reffing a bjj match.
There was a pretty good size difference between the two ladies and the one who initiated the takedown drove forward and the other girl posted her arm instead of breakfalling. Then i saw and heard the arm snap. I stopped the match immediately and the girl who broke her arm was like "why did you stop it bro"
I responded with I'm pretty sure you arm is broken and you don't want to look at it.
Needless to say we called an ambulance, carted her off and then continued with the next bracket 😅
Was on a IBJJF seminar once and the lecturer was a seasoned purple belt with around 150 matches. He told a story where he was spectating a match in Brazil and one of the two guys landed in an armbar and his arm got snapped. But he didnt tap or verbally tap, so the ref just let the fight go and he nonchalantly CONTINUED with a snapped arm until the ref noticed somethings wrong with his flailing arm XD
When I was in high school, a bunch of friends of mine and I all trained in different types of martial arts and different schools. Occasionally we would visit each other's schools just to see what was going on and what they were doing in case we wanted to cross train. It usually ended up leading to that. The craziest thing I ever saw was when I went to a place that was teaching ninjutsu. I probably should have known better but.... They had this old man who they called Grand Master such and such blah blah blah... He had a whole bunch of people stand in a big line and he gently touched the first person and then halfway through the line. Somebody would fly out of the line like they were hit with a bunch of energy. A couple of my friends and I asked to be a part of it but we're told it was too dangerous. Needless to say, we gave our friend who is in that school a lot of teasing and ragging over the next couple years. It was the source of a lot of laughter when we would go out for beers. But that was definitely the craziest thing I ever saw and this guy kind of reminded me of him.
Look into To-Shin Do and Bujinkan, legit Ninjutsu schools. Search em up on here.
@@adandyguyinspace5783 there is no such thing as decent ninjutsu, it's all made up by westerners and doesn't work.
The Ashida Kim vs Count Dante feud was the craziest sht ever, not even close.
When I was teaching in California in 1982-3ish my teacher was a well you’d call him a tyrant today. If we really messed up teaching and he was pissed enough he would kick everyone out of the school, lock the door, pull the blinds and beat the offending teacher from one end of the mat to the other. When said teacher had recovered enough the school was unlocked and students were let back in. He was a 6’4 muscle bound biker and was freaking terrifying! That was the craziest thing I have seen in a martial arts school. Happened too often.
That's going to get Someone Hurt ! Im getting back into training im going to get back to my Italian roots & Do some Boxing. The Greco Roman Wrestling hurt my back when i was younger. Tangsoodo was fun, I have Solid boxing Gym near me & Sambo Systema school. Bryant Perrella Boxing 🥊🥊 he's awesome 👍😎🙏 God bless a lot of martial arts is getting watered down.
I had an instructor who claimed that he could grow the length of his arms using chi. He held his hand out with his elbow down and tucked in (tan sao in wing chun) and would measure from his inner elbow to the end of his fingers using his other hand spreading his thumb and little finger out.He would get one measurement before he started, and a longer measurement once he was supposedly complete.
I noticed by trying it on myself that the exact angle that you held the arm mattered. If you picked the same starting point on your skin, but varied the angle of the arm even slightly, It would make a massive difference in the final measurement. This is because why the point you start at on your skin seems to remain in the same position it is actually moving over your muscles and changes anatomical position thus changing the starting location of the measurement.
I told him I didn't believe it and that the change in measurement is due to the angle change and an imprecise measuring tool (his hand). So he got a tape measure and I got someone to assist me in holding his arm at the exact correct angle while I measured it and he couldn't reproduce the reaction. His excuse for this was that he was tired from doing it too many times before. He never offered to test it again, and never mentioned that during a class again as long as I was at the school.
How long did you stay in the class and was there any other suspicious (bushido) teaching that he did? Because it sounds like you called him on his bullshit but still felt he was worth getting classes from.
@Michael K-bomb he was a good instructor overall. I had been training with another instructor for about 9 years at that point and he wanted me to cross train somewhere else to brush up on my basics. So I joined this particular school. Going back to basics was good and the instructor definitely helped me improve my skills, but he definitely had some closeted weird beliefs. I was at the school for about 2 years when that came up, and I was there another 2 years after that.
There was nothing else he really pushed that was BS other than the idea that wing chun alone is the ultimate art. I love doing wing chun, but I also train in grappling and more long range kicking focused arts because I know it has holes that need to be addressed.
@@neizha Oh, OK. See I thought you would have been pretty new to it and didn't know any better. But, fair enough that he didn't push any other BS and you just all moved on from it and you didn't suspect he was a hack as he still had something to offer.
But, it's interesting how it's not just talentless teachers who would push the BS.
Craziest thing was watching "Dr" John Tourette of the Medford OR. Kenpo school move clouds with his powerful Chi magic. I'm pretty sure you featured that on your channel here although I can't find the clip anymore on TH-cam
The craziest things I've seen in martial arts... people paying for lessons from McDojo's 😂
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The craziest thing in martial arts that I saw was about 25 years ago. My once step dad claimed he had all kinds of black belts and mastered a bunch of different martial arts. My older brother, who was a thug type guy, and he got into an argument at a restaurant that escalated to them both going outside to the parking lot. My step dad started doing the poses and nonsense "dances" that you see before fights in the old english dubbed kung fu movies, and my brother just laid into him with a nice hook. From there on, it just wasn't too pretty. Step dad tried to do wing chun type punch deflection and grabs but just kept getting annihilated. I think he got two hits in that looked pathetic, and my brother later told me he didn't even feel. I think about that day and wish so badly that everyone had cell phones with cameras like we do now for just that one day. It was gloriously hilarious, I bet that old step dad had a mastery of this martial art as well.
He still your step dad?
@@RonaldMexico No, that marriage only lasted about a year.
Any Man who gets involved with a single mother should expect such occurrences.
If she couldn't treat the Father of her children with respect, how's she going to treat her new Man?
@@adamkane7513 It sounds like that stepdad didn't know his boundaries either. New guy needs to stay in his lane, and merge gently.
sounds like a pretty dysfunctional family...
The craziest thing I have seen but was not bullshit is when I lived in Beijing and studied Shuai Jiao under some very respected experts. One well known instructor would hold a 30-foot cylinder type of banner type thing. I think it was made from bamboo. He could hold it on the tip of his thumb without moving his body. Also, he would tilt his head up and balance it on his chin again never moving his body. It would just stay in place. I have pics of it in an old kung fu tai chi magazine article I wrote on Shuai Jiao.
Craziest thing I've seen... I haven't been in any training for years and have less experience than most. I find it crazy that there's so much easily available evidence that most this weird stuff is fake but people still believe it and try to do fancy movements they see in movies.
Having said that
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Just saw your Operation Smile commercial pop up on TV during the playoffs. Was surprised to see you there, Rob, but congrats and I commend your work with them.
I need to see more of Cosmo Power
I've seen quite a few crazy things over the years, so it's hard to pick one! The first one that comes to mind was a demonstration at a tournament in Detroit somewhere in the late '90s. A martial arts master had a glass bottle on the floor. He shattered it with a left foot stomp and then pivoted in the broken glass while breaking a board with a right roundhouse kick. I've done a lot of pain endurance and sideshow skills, but I'm not willing to try that one!
Dude! I totally want a cosmo power hat!
One of the craziest things is how you haven't reached 100k yet. You should have way more subscribers.
I’m a bit stunned by it as well but that’s ok. I’ll get there. Just going to keep grinding
Question of the day: I saw my mui Thai/kempo instructor go three rounds with an 20 year old training for a semi pro BJJ match... Then do a 40 minute class with me and another full hour class... I know I know non of that magic chi shit but the dude was already in his 40s... That's pretty magical to me haha
Chi merch. Nice
Craziest was when a guy brought a live kitchen knife to a tournament for competing in weapon forms division. Fortunately, he was not allowed to. I wish we could have seen the guy in the video fight Dillman. Probably wouldn't have a winner, but it would be fun.
At 09:04 i love the way the student on the far right looks behing him, beeing ejected by Chi is ok, but a broken ankle by falling from the stage : nope nope 😂
Radford Davis's levitation still makes me grin, any time I witness it. Either that, or the same guy's interpretation of 'kata Dante'. Then again, old Georgie boy's "tongue in the wrong place" excuse, combined with the "guy was a total unveliever", reasons why Leon Jay was unable to magic a journalist. Worth bearing in mind though, as a 'complete' martial artist: wiggling your toes, and tongue may be brilliant self defence concepts. Huge thank you for brightening my day...💙🤪💙🤪💙🤪💙🤪💙🤪💙
Craziest thing I’ve ever seen in martial arts… crazy good or crazy bad? I love seeing the look on students faces when they apply a technique and it works. That bit of joy, that “ah-ha!” moment, that look of “Oh this is REAL!” There’s nothing like it. That’s my good thing. Bad thing? I once saw a guy use improper technique and put his sword through his bicep
That was some amazing Dai nippon jutsu 😅 he was able to do what up until now was only possible in the most high budget Japanese anime cartoon .
I kinda wanna know who sells this guy his stuff, because whatever he's on, it's GOOD.
We actually had this other "master" invited into our school once, and he did that thing where everyone lines up and pushes on the back of the person in front of them. It wasn't no touch nonsense, he was holding his ground, but it was also definitely a bit of a parlour trick. Basically, it's not one stream of force. If you push hard enough, the person in front of you will struggle to keep their arms straight, and the person in front probably doesn't want to be a dick about it. Anyway, as I recall, he came to "adjust" my form a few times because I was actually pushing with a little force.
Craziest thing I've seen in any MMA was watching 3 guys in a row, of the local boxing match, loose some teeth and get KO'ed. That, and seeing my broken ankle after a kumikata session went very bad.
This is legit I bought the shirt and cap I’m now a Sensei myself and my students are also falling over like his it works if you deliver
"I'm sure on some planet, your style is quite impressive, but your weak link is, this is Earth!" - Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, 2002
I have to get some of that merchandise. A lifetime of martial arts and I'm no where near as good. Please give us the link to Cosmo Power merc.
I think it would be cool to see a map with pins showing the location of where these 'masters' are based. I'm pretty sure I can guess where the highest densities of their schools would be, but it would still be fun to see it.
Oh please put this in the back of your wall so all to see please Mcdojolife... please...
About 20 years ago a friend of mine invited me to go and see him in a Kung Fu tournament in IL. We had bonded over practicing Martial Arts I had been doing TKD for about 7 years and he had been doing Kung Fu about about 3 years. Anyway, we went to a Kung Fu tournament outside of Chicago, IL and there was weapons, forms and sparring. All of which was fun to watch. However when the Masters demo started thats when all the crazy happened. There was normal stuff like ice breaks and brick breaks, but there was one guy that did these pressure point knock outs by just touch people on shoulder like Spock. Everything was cool up until this load of bologna.
Back in the 90's when I was teaching a guy walked in wanting to have a challenge fight. Before I could dissuade him and begin a conversation, he gets naked. Luckily it was an adult class. In his defense, I did not want to engage naked man. So he won that round.
When I was young, I too made cool DBZ and Mortal Kombat sounds when sparring. Maybe this guy is just a big fan of anime.
The craziest thing I ever witnessed was during a demo. The “master” had 1 of his students, who was a minor, meditate with his body lying between 2 chairs(1 at the head and the other at the feet.) The master then balanced an apple on the minor student’s throat and cut the apple in half with a katana. This was almost 30 years ago and I was a student myself and a minor and I was absolutely horrified. He was my master as well and I left soon after. I almost never practiced again because of that.
If lens flare is proof of a persons chi, then J. J. Abrams is the Grand Master
I suppose the craziest thing I have seen is people's will to keep fighting even when they are very clearly done. In my competitive days I saw fighters pleading with the ref to ignore their injuries and allow them to keep fighting. When I compare that dedication to that of other sports it just seems crazy. One sport the athlete is trying their best to downplay their injuries and every other sport they are doing the opposite
How about one of those have somebody that's not their students go in there and try attacking them and see if they could stop before you pump into the ground and knock em out by punching him in the face and just tackling them can you stop it now
They've done in other of these crazy dojos put your tongue in the right spot or toes it doesn't work. Professional wrestling is the ultimate self defense compared out of these guys
How did the cameraman not succumb to that tidal wave of chi blast hadouken energy?!
My old Kenpo instructors were a husband and wife team he would spar with us but she refused to she had the biggest EGO I have ever seen in a person I finally asked her at 1st degree Brown Belt level to spar with me when she said NO, I then asked her why she refuses to spar with anyone she said and i quote " I do not want to hurt anyone" i then said and I quote myself "if your really that good you should be able to control your Punches and Kicks so no one gets hurt" and I walked back to my students that I was teaching in her school. I was there for a little over 5 years and when I left she never did spar anyone else I kept in touch with another Instructor or Coach as what we was called and she never did spar with anyone. EGO....
When I was in college PhD = Piled Higher n Deeper. It was after Star Warts May-the -force-be-with-you Yoda, that this Ki or Qigongs, the Bullshido begin to be piled higher and deeper. Actually, the record was way back when a bunch of Kung Fu masters who thought they were invincible to bullets started the boxer rebellion in China. Into the present, Putin just played the world's mind last week; we kept guessing his moves like pieces on a chess board.
Got kicked out of white belt karate when I was like 5. My brother was 7. They taught us front kicks and some horse stance and basic punches.
The sense told us to spar but it was "self dee fence!" (We had to yell it like that that several times before each class) so we needed to fight to win quickly.
My brother came in and I front kicked him (knee extension not a teep) strait to the sack as hard as I could...
He asked me, "why did you do that!"
I said, "you said fight to win quick".
They didn't let me back. 😂
What do I look for in a dojo? Lineage and reputation.
On the McDojo site? Lineage charts of BJJ and other arts.
whenever i see this chi power crap i think of the Salty Spitoon bouncer from spongebob saying "You destroyed that guy without even touching him!"
And to answer the question, craziest thing I’ve seen was a security guard round house my friend (who was 17 at the time) in line at a mod def concert in 02, then the guy who stood up for us got arrested. While he was in handcuffs the security guard socked him dead in the face, and still did not get arrested. Not exactly a dojo story, but crazy a grown man could attack some kids in line at a concert in front of witnesses. We still got to see the concert so that’s ok.
Ooh....can he be introduced to Xu Xaiodong!?...please oh, please oh, please!
Love your channel
I agree with u
I like that he has a linkedIn page, a twitter account with 9 followers on which he claims to have helped someone recover from a stroke but I still can't find a site where I can buy a t-shirt and I totally want one of those t-shirts.
I SAW YOUR COMMERCIAL ON TV!!
I lost it at the t-shirts..oh my word..😂😂😂😂
could you ever get an interview with the students of these peopl ..i wonder how they can just participate ..and follow these
the energy wall can magically repel fists or the frequent katana attacks, mysteriously a hand passing cash money can break right through easily.
Ninja Bob is one of craziest people I ever met, who believed he was a real ninja because he took out admin a ninja tabloid, and then decided to attack the school I was in at the time.
I also knew a martial arts who had an ovetwhelming Messiah complex while taking on the persona of a character from a time store novel called the destroyer series.
And I have also seen a martial arts school in Toronto. Called 'Crazy Bob's House of Death.' this is real ...He is still there as far as I know.
There was also a supposed kungfu school once called "the Sacred Sword". There believed in the Qi energy as a defense stuff. They were pretty out there. The instructor told me that if he thought about the colour Blue, noone could hit him, they would miss.
I met some fun people during my travels over my career in the arts.
Cosmic Power is an excellent setup move in Pokemon.
Cosmo Power is more akin to the move teeter dance, confusing anyone who looks at it.
I used to train with a Chinese guy whose parents could afford to send him around the world to train with the "top chi masters", meaning they wre recognized by the Chinese Gov as physicians and top martial artists. If anyone was a "master of chi" it was him and he would be the first to debunk any of these extraordinary claims. If anything, Chi, is proper breathing mixed with focused intent, a technique to refine power. The only real "magic" is perhaps, biofeedback in the form of heat energy.
Its dropping your mass though the soft tissue in your body and connecting all the fascia, mixed with Yi (mind intent). Its an extremely awesome way of moving, not relying on external muscles...but rather the internal soft tissue. There are bullshitters...but a lot of the masters are still around. I have met them and touched hands...I have been doing Sanda / San shou for over 20 years. I could not move them or pick them up.
...and anything endorsed by the chinese gov. is bullshit. They have no idea of the real masters out there...
@@saschamarr495 Yeah, I studied a little San Shou and Tai Chi/Chi Kung and that's pretty much it, a deeper way of using your body as one. I met a Hsing YI teacher once and he told me the weird postures they use are designed to "engage" the internal organs. He was smaller than me 5'5" and could buckle a heavy bag lol
@@chocomalk Its amazing stuff hey :) Its just crazy that some folks believe its total BS and the other side believes it can move mountains. Its in the middle somewhere and is not "better" than moving externally... its just a different way to move. Take care
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I saw a guy get upset and try to do a Patrick Swayze throat rip from Roadhouse. It just ended up being weird and escalated into a real fight haha. Still funny though
I saw Rico Rodriguez come into my academy when I was a white belt and he had beef with my Instructor Paulo Guillobel. Some old rivalry or something. Rico got choked out, I mean out out, and came to then pounded the mat. He looked around in silence and grabbed his things and left. I didn't know what was happening so I just shut up and observed...
Years ago, I saw a Tang Soo Do instructor (Andy Ah Po) prepare to spar with two opponents: one in front, one behind. As he threw a reverse punch to his frontal opponent, he cut this nasty, hair-ripping fart which promptly knocked his rear opponent to the ground. To this day, I refer to that as the "1-2 Punch of Doom".
Great job.
When I was a kid, I attended total of two Wing-Chun classes in my area. Well, instead of learning techniques, working out or other form of martial training, the instructor just told us to chase each other across the gym the whole time while yelling "lemon"... I never went there again 😅
So that's my, not really crazy, but still a strange martial arts story.
This makes me so grateful my mom put me in AKKA Karate when I was 5 to never fall for these tactics 😂😂😂
I love this channel
I tried the invisible wall technique to stop a speeding car,I'm now in a crumpled mess awaiting the ambulance 😂
Craziest thing I ever saw in martial arts was these two guys flying around, and the bad guy he hit the planet they were fighting on so hard, it was going to explode in five minutes. Those five minutes took like three weeks to pass. The whole time both guys were shouting and screaming and beating the hell out of each other. Finally the good guy stole the bad guys space ship, and got out of there with like three seconds to spare, and the planet blew up with the bad guy still on it, but he didn't even die. He just shrugged that shit off, put some robot parts on, and showed up at the good guys home planet, then got chopped in half with a sword and exploded.
Those are good friends to pretend like that. I can’t even get buddies to text me back for getting a poker game together.
They are paying students
I'd suggest a few cameras that are available for parents of students to access.
Craziest thing is pretty much everything on this channel 😂. Also am I the only one who wants to buy one of those shirts???
I'd like to see one famous "energy master" challenge another famous "energy master" to see which one has to elect to fall down or against a wall and throw away their reputation/system/ and ultimately, their income from grifting.
Where can I buy some of his merch? Can’t find it.
Man you are awesome I love the way you call out these people that think the world runs on unicorn farts and rainbow juice it’s kinda sad that they are still allowed to cheat poor people who don’t know any better
This guy & several similar "chi" demonstrations, mostly from Aikido & T'ai Ch'i, are the craziest things I have seen because I don't understand how the "master" gets his students to go along with the charade. On the other hand, I have broken a broad-head arrow against my trachea (point in a thick piece of leather) more than once & between the trachea of me & a female partner we folded a 4 foot piece of half inch reinforcing bar in half so flat we could hug. I don't know how that worked. We were, of course, using "chi" or "Nuum" or maybe it was some "wt?" & no one was hurt, etc. I don't know what the trick was but it was interesting at the time.
So .... how do they get the students to go along with the charade?
I can't believe that I spent 55+ years training in judo and cross training in Muay Thai, BJJ, and karate, when all I needed was a $2.00 ball cap!!!!!
The documentary on master Riki-oh exploded my whole unnamed town as a child. This is my origin story..... I WILL have revengence.
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Craziest thing? Extinguishing a candle with a sword strike. Not magic at all, but pretty cool. Honestly I'm fortunate, most of the martial arts teachers and training partners I've worked with have been pretty sensible, practical people.
I love this Mcdojos, looks fun, where can I train
Everyone of these videos is a full breakdown about these places. They talk in detail about them including how to find them
I have heard of Cosmo Power. I think it's related to Cosmo Kramer.
the combat ki special always got me laughing
it was on discovery and on youtube
Years agos I saw a guy climb up a wall 20ft he used his fingers it was fast. Eangle claw he was70
I seen a hurricane kick off of a car on world star that knocked a dude out.
I think the craziest thing I've seen in martial arts is the video of that karate guy who smacks the kid on the neck during an assembly and I believe killed or put that person into a coma
Ok two things I have seen ok in 1993 I saw this karate teacher do gun disarm and I said man I want to do that number I was involved my first day of karate from the teacher that did the gun disarm he ask me to punch him and well I'm good boxer I said as 14yrs would say if I hit u I hit u he laughed next thing I know I see my feet in the air so yeah don't get to cocky
Full scale martial arts fighting of 4 schools in a old boxing gym, wrestling 4 dudes lol, also I perform with a flaming ,4 wick 3 section staff. Other performers I have seen with flame swords and rope darts etc. And my old Taekwondo instructor would get way drunk and fight people at bars lol.
how do guys like this recruit and convince their students and followers? like whats the process like, its hard to imagine that right away a new student would be playing along? idk. maybe you have a video talking about this already
Omg thank you Joe Rogan for leading me to this channel. I pissed myself at 1:20 when they were walking around the house, coordination, omg hahahahahahaha i cant
Do they make Cosmopower knee wraps? Seriously though, I’d like a t-shirt or rash guard.
Does being the last one to fall down mean you’re the strongest of the weak minded or that you just missed your cue
PHD = Pile it Higher and Deeper
Honestly, I think just the speed at which I've seen some Martial Artists react is the craziest thing I've ever seen them do. At least as far as stuff that's real and legit.
You know what really gets me on some of these martial arts teachers that can "use the power of Chi to keep enemies from attacking" is just how blatantly fake it is. Like how does anyone look at any of this stuff and not just think "Okay, now why don't you try actually hitting him this time instead of just standing still?