A less-than-ideal introduction

I haven't trained in a commercial school in more than 20 years. I'm unclear on your point.

 

I think it's fore? I ducked anyway

 

Seems like a whole lotta something over a whole lotta nothing.

If this was that exciting that you had to share it, I'd hate to see what a typical class is like.

 

There was this one time, in band camp ......

 

You were the one who brought up the need for selling points in FMA. We don't advertise, people search us out.

 

The point being that it was bad manners but nothing to write home about. Unless the guro decided to teach him a lesson right there and then, at no extra charge.

Other than that, you can feel indignant but of the guro did not take offense maybe you should let it go too.

 

He's not a guro, he's actually a mandala maginoo. I decided to write about it because I could tell that he was going to be responsible for at least more than one headache in the future. Sometimes you just know that you're heading for trouble and there's nothing you can do about it. In times like those, it's sometimes preferable to vent.

 

Mandala maginoo...pekiti tirsia. Which area?

 

Europe.

 

Under Uli Weidle! Wonderful! I hope to see him next time he's in town.

 

Yup, me too. I was hoping to head to the four day dumpag camp in late October, but some other stuff got in the way. I'll probably be able to catch him again early next year.

 

Dumpag! I think it was 99 or 00 when GT Gaje unleashed that on the brotherhood. Fun times. Painful times.

 

Yeah, Kagete, but that has sweet sod all to do with the business/advertising practices of one single training group and everything to do with FMA as a whole. The question is whether it's unreasonable for a newb to come in with that approach. And if FMA in the US is often marketed in that way, regardless of whether your particular group markets itself that way (or at all), that's what any new person is going to absorb as the norm. So, if you're looking to point fingers, I think you're pointing them in the wrong direction. The way FMA is glamourized in books, magazines, etc. is placing the emphasis. These students are just following those leads.

 

*cough cough*

 

Again, you're missing the point. If someone does an internet search on FMA, what comes up isn't being limited by geographic location. I only specified the US because that's where I am. I'm going to go on a limb and say that if I started perusing for European FMA teachers (particularly PTK), I'd find plenty of images of guys in tactical clothing, strapped with weaponry, and brandishing large knives. You dispute that?

 

Oh come on now...FMA in Europe is also advertised as knife fighting, weapons and all that.
Sayoc Kali is "All blade, all the time". That sort of thing.

*Not directed at you Stu!

 

Good thing for me I don't do Sayoc and aren't part of any group that advertises at all, I suppose.

 

I tried picture-googling "European FMA instructors" as well as "Pekiti-Tirsia Europe", and given the results, I'm afraid that I do dispute that.

 

Yeah because its not as if PTK relies heavily on aggressive and military imagery to sell itself globally or anything......