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Heh... I have that book of his, "Ninja Mind Control" (hey, I was young, I had the money, and I would go for anything that had the word "Ninja" written on it sweatdrop ). It''s a fun item in the dojo now, especially that one technique "monkey steals the peach" (or something like that) is quite the running gag wink

Anyway, does anyone know what Ashida Kim actually looks like? On all the pictures you find, he is wearing a mask. Also, I think I heard that all the higher-ranking students of his must wear masks because "they would be endlessly challenged if their identity became public" and some bullshit like that... Too funny, really wink

What I want to do is (currently working on it) present the web page with facts, proving he is a fraud. The best way is to say "Ninja's did not wear black, it would not be functional in the night, black out-lines you, making you MORE visible."

Wait, my sight on ninjas?

Oh.no that isnt my site, i was using the information from samurai-archives, thats why I posted it in () just so it wasnt called "fraud"

Why send out assassins when he can hunt them all down and kill them himself?

Firstly he will use his 'ninja mind control' to find out where they live and then he will use his ninja powers to take them out one-by-one.

This question has bugged me for quite a while. Why do people, adult people, believe this stuff, and thus, why is Bullshido this successful? I mean, tricking kids into believing something is rather easy ("It's on TV, right?"). But adults, or even teenagers?

So I guess, one explanation might be that Bullshido suggests that progress in whatever martial art can be easy, just by handing over some money. The average couch potato, so to speak, wants to be big and strong and overall invincible (admit it, don't we all have that wish?), but he wants to do nothing for it. And this is what a McDojo/Belt Factory essentially offers.
Also, mostly with teenagers but even with adults, there seems to be more believing in stuff from movies than one would like to admit. They see some Ninja/Jackie Chan/whatever movie, and they have heard something of a dojo that teaches something mentioned in the movie, so they go there and want to know how to do this. If it's a Bullshido dojo, their wishes and imaginations will be fully served there, provided enough cash flow. If it's a serious dojo, they will soon learn that it's not at all like in the movies, that it takes years of hard training with bruises etc. (and thinking, too), and you still can't walk through walls or kill with your eyebrows or whatever. This is the point when they either change to a dojo where they are served first-class Bullshido, or just go back to see movies again.

You really can point out those people after or even before a training lesson. Some wonder why we don't dress up in Ninja outfit and scare passengers with swords in hand while running around in the woods at night. Others come up and ask how to make those neat little smoke bombs. Others who want to be shown "that one absolutely deadly Atemi spot". The list goes on and on. Those are all hopeless cases, you can expect them to show up for training a second or maybe a third time, but that's that. Off to some McDojo...