User talk:Scb steve

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scb_steve is the designated representative for Bullshido.net, a martial-arts oriented website dedicated to discussing and exposing fradulent practioners of martial arts. The website is also a repository of information on training and conditioning for martial arts, with posts made by high level practioners of martial arts, including current/former professional fighters and upper-ranked instructors in numerous arts/systems.

Please visit bullshido.net for more information on terms such as "Bullshido", "McDojo", or any general inquiry into martial arts.

[edit] Greetings

Greetings! Thanks for the note. I'm generally very favourable towards Bullshido.com, because I agree with their premise that fraud is rampant in the modern teaching of martial arts, especially in Western T'ai Chi. There are so many incompetent, lazy, lying charlatans out there teaching T'ai Chi it would make your head spin. Since most don't even pretend to martial ability, I expect them to be under Bullshido's radar for the most part. Myself, I trained from a relatively young age (when they hit you more!) in Hong Kong and Shanghai and elsewhere with a very martially oriented school, so I have an idea of what the style should be.

I teach T'ai Chi kung and ch'i kung for employees, the general public, seniors and for patients in several hospitals, so I'll be looking in on the article you've created. I have some medical citations I will be adding, and feel free to raid our other articles for info. My first job will be to move the content from Martial Arts Therapy to Martial arts therapy to come in line with our naming conventions. Cheers, --Fire Star 20:58, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ashida Kim

The data about mr kim posted by felbeast is straight off his website.

PS :Whats your martial arts style

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:F AshidaKim.jpg

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:F AshidaKim2.jpg

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[edit] David "Race" Bannon

Wow, it's weird that the new article (nice job, BTW) doesn't show up at all in the searches. It may be a bug related to the quotation marks (although similar quotes do show up in searches) in the title. I'll do some research, and if I can't figure this one out we may have to go to the help desk. In the meantime, a dab page would be fine. I'm a little pressed for time right now, so if you don't get to it first, I'll try to set one up later this evening. --Fire Star 04:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Very good. Looking things over here and at Bullshido.net, I'm thinking that with the exposure he's been getting it would perhaps be a good job to have an article on Samuel Browning, too. Regards, --Fire Star 06:20, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Also, you may find the current discussion of verifiability and martial arts going on at Talk:Tai Chi Chuan interesting. --Fire Star 23:57, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current discussions

What I think happens is that people present their arguments and a neutral admin decides the issue based on a consensus of the arguments. Since the article has been recreated, that may even be the de facto end of the discussion, since no one seems to agree 100%. You can more firmly establish the longevity of the article by addressing the verifiability issue that keeps coming up. Link to news stories about Bannon, perhaps edit the article some to reduce overlap with McDojo, etc. --Fire Star 01:00, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration

Listing a deletion issue there is novel. I think deletion review runs for 7 days which we are still 1 day short of in the case of the various bits of bullshido stuff.Geni 21:47, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, I may not have seen it if I wasn't an arbitrator myself (as you didn't notify). The deletion review listing seems to have closed normally, acording to proper procedure, and I'm not quite sure why you decided to take it to arbitration without simply waiting for an admin to conclude the listing, other than unfamiliarity with our dispute resolution process. Arbitration is last, meaning that typically you wil have to demonstrate that you've exhausted other venues like mediaion or WP:RFC beforehand. In this case, the issue is already solved, and there wasn't even really a conflict, just a difference of opinion, for which I have to problem complying with community consensus on. We could wait for weeks for arbitrators to reject the case, but (as an arbitrator trying to save us time) I'd like to politely ask for you to withdraw your premature request voluntarily. We can talk about this more if you're still unclear about anything. Thanks, and also, welcome to Wikipedia. :-) Dmcdevit·t 07:41, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

I endorse what Dmcdevit says - please consider withdrawing your request to save us all time. Stifle (talk) 10:17, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for withdrawing your request. I have removed the case from the arbitration page. Stifle (talk) 13:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Yellowbambooswedish.gif listed for deletion

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject_Martial_Arts

You are listed as a participant in this Wikiproject, which appears to have ground to a halt - I'm contacting all participants to try to get things rolling again... hope you can help! -- Medains 08:59, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Bullshido.net article is just an ad

Friend, this article here on bullshido.net is not nuetral. It makes it sound as if the bullshido.net people have the knowledge and authority to judge what is bullshit or not, without questioning their ability to do this. I don't understand how this seems objective to you. I see these points have been raised before, and you've dealt with them, but they need to be dealt with as they have some validity--or is "your" article perfect and cannot be un-edited? I can copy/paste just as many times as you, so I suggest we come to some kind of compromise in the interest of fairness.