Attention! Fraud and poseur alert in Connecticut!!!

[Emir Mehovic]

lol no offense john cause i dont know u or that other other guy...but it seems like u just hate this dudes guts haha..and conner did he say why john "hates his guts"

[Conner MACHINE Gibbons]

Emir, he just said they had a personality conflict. He didn't say anymore and I didn't ask. Only thing he really said is how much he loves the 10th planet system.

[ifreez]

Wait a sec, did u spell poser, 'poseur'?

[Louis Ho]

'Poseur' is European, my friend. It's chic, it's where it's at.

[Jay Chow]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poseur

[John Roderick]

John, do you happen to know of any good muay thai gyms on long island? (you seem to have a good base of knowledge for thai)

Ray Longo, or go into the City and train at The Wat. Those would be directly closest to LI. Longo is for real. Tell him I referred you.

[John Roderick]

I was wondering about that Coringao thing to... I guess I missed something. All of a sudden he was a ghost on this site. He had made me his friend and that's gone to. Its like there was never any trace of him........ Somebody fill us in , whats the deal ?

As far as the guy this thread was started about. I met him last week at Naga Conn. He was running the clock for my ring. He saw my 10th planet colors and wanted to know who i trained with. He said he was a huge fan of the system. He said all he knew of it was from books and dvd's. Said the local 10th planet instructor hated his guts, so training at the local school wasn't possible. ( I guess that was you John.lol) Just thoght you should know he never bad mouthed you or tried to come across as some top of the food chain jiu jitsu guy, At least not to me. Like I said I only talked to him for a couple min. I'm sure you have reasons for how you feel.

I doubt he would bad mouth me to someone who would probably tell me. He knows better now.
There is so much to this, that I could spend FAR too long (and already have) explaining this. In summary:
He was a student of mine less than a year
I had issue with his training habits and attempted NUMEROUS times to work with him, realizing he had some ...issues that could be challenging
He was more concerned with doing flying armbars than learning and drilling. He had issues with doing the training required
He constantly would beat up on smaller, lesser skilled students, and then brag about it (I have a real problem with that)
There are several other issues, but the clincher was this: about 3 years ago, after an acquaintence of mine (in deference and respect to me) refused to train him, he went on a rant on the underground titled: "Asshole CT gym" where he went on to badmouth me to the UG pretty severely. He bashed me directly, my students. Made false claims, and statements that he had beaten up on me and my students. He made some other outlandish claims as well. At that time, one of my students saw this, called me, and posted several retorts.
The end result was him making some more crazy statements. At that time, I simply made him an offer to have either a grappling or MMA match with ANY of my students. I had about 5 or 6 that asked to fight him. He even contacted NAGA about this and said some out and out lies that I won't detail here. He didn't know that Joe Cuff and I have known eacher other over 25 years and badmouthing me to a friend isn't cool.
After ALL of this, I let him return 2 times to train with me giving him a clean slate. He then tried the same stuff and even tried to take me out . He also claimed he was one of my instructors, as well as a Jiu Jitsu instructor as well.
I honestly don't know how he got in with NAGA. They tell me they just use him for the BS menial work like mat cleaning and loading trucks, but he claims he does more. He had every opportunity to make things right more than a few times. He saw me last week and pretty much ducked into the crowd rather than face me and say "sorry".

Right now, he could train with me, but he would just need to man up and apologize to just about everyone in my gym for it to be right. There is a lot here.
I don't "hate" his guts, but I don't respect him, and I would probably kick his ass on general principle except that I know he's not of right mind.
As for his "disease"-other than him blowing up to 280 lbs, I don't know what that is. If he was legitimately ill, I am truly happy he's ok now. However, he is one of these people that say one thing to your face, and another to the next guy if that guy will give him what he wants. Seeing your 10th P shirt, and now helping NAGA must be like heaven to him.
He could come in any time he wanted. But I don't think he'd be adult/man enough to apologize.

[John Roderick]

Wait a sec, did u spell poser, 'poseur'?

Yes, because I'm well read

[Emir Mehovic]

sorry if i offended u...

[Conner MACHINE Gibbons]

Like I said I was sure you had ur reasons. I only saw him running the time clock, no reffing for sure. If the love of the system is as strong as he told me it is, I hope he can put his ego aside, and come talk to you. Makes no since training from dvd's and books when he has a trainer as good as you so close. Maybe he can grow as a person and that would let his jiu jitsu grow as well.