Yeah, my sympathies
My girlfriend also got sucked into a Temple Kung Fu school here in Seattle. She was completely sold by the high-pressure marketing into believing that it was the ultimate real thing, fortunately at the time she was a poor starving college student and simply couldn't sacrifice for the outragous fees (belt fees, sparring fees, extra "clubs" and events, etc). Upon leaving and working out at a couple of other schools she saw the light fortunately.
Every week my driving takes me past both a Temple KF and a Chung Moo school, that I see filled with people working out Very sad. I support MA fully, but I can't support innocents being taken for a swindle.
There was also a huge Aikido McDojo here that was running the same fee scams and brainwashing. Happily they've since gone out of business. The beauty of the internet today is that hopefully thru communication, message boards, community, etc crap pyramid-scheme schools like Temple and Chung Moo will go the way of the dinosaur.
Last edited by Gargoyle again; 01-14-2002 at 12:57 PM.
And all that the Lorax left here in this mess
was a small pile of rocks, with the one word..."UNLESS."
--Dr. Seuss