Originally Posted by
Tim Elliott
The problem is, the pretenders are usually the most comfortable self marketing. Iv been in a couple of gyms where the trainer was a humble guy with legitimate credentials and traceable lineage and awesome skills, but his gym was small and struggling. The cities had several other gyms each with loud mouthed pretenders who tell people endless bullshit stories about how awesome they are and their gyms were thriving. All self promotion, no credibility. Guys just getting into martial arts dont know about checking authenticity, but they lap up war stories, true or otherwise.
Theres a trainer in another gym in my city who spends so much time in his classes slagging off my trainer, that some of his students have come our classes to see what all the fuss is about and stayed. I think its up to a half dozen members now.