5 times fake Martial Artists were brutally exposed. Part 2

Because Martial Arts are, in many countries and cultures, still a niche sport, there isn’t as much awareness surrounding them as there is around, say, football.

If a football coach is a hack who can’t kick a ball to save his life, you’d know straight away. You’d know he’s a con artist and you’d stay away.

But with Martial Arts, there just isn’t as much solid know-how and exposure going around for a layperson to take one look at a self-professed ‘black belt’ and figure out if he’s the real deal.

And over the years, a number of people have tried to exploit this ignorance to try and make a quick buck or two. Inevitably however, if they stick around for too long or buy into their own hype, chances are that they do catch the eye of a legitimate martial artist. And if there’s one thing a true blue martial artist doesn’t like, it’s for the fake ones to tarnish their beloved discipline by propagating fake knowledge.

And then, this happens.

The Kiai Master gets his comeuppance

So ‘Kiai’ in Japanese martial arts actually refers to the shout that martial artists make when throwing a strike. Almost like the grunt of effort tennis players let out when they hit the ball.

Only this man took it one step further and started propagating a martial art that involved him taking out his opponents without even touching them. Yes, you read that right.

His opponents (mostly his brainwashed students) would rush towards him to attack him and with a swish of his hands, they would somersault and fall to the floor writhing in pain. He wouldn’t even have to touch them.

However, he made the grave error of buying into his own hype (he apparently claimed to be 200-0 in fights, by the way) and ended up welcoming a challenge from an actual MMA trained fighter…

(Warning: Queasy scenes of an elderly man getting beat up pretty viciously…not that he didn’t deserve it)

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