April 16, 200521 yr Hello;What is the word "McDojo" mean? I have never heard of this.Thank you Allgoju-dave 1st Kyu Brown Belt
April 16, 200521 yr A fake Dojo, a dojo that only a purpose to steal your money, and wont teach you anything proper or valuble. You might get a new belt every month, and not be learning anything.... I think that sums it up, anyone else wanna add?
April 16, 200521 yr There are a ton of posts about McDojos and what seperates them from the real thing. Just do a search in thr Forums. It's aaaaaallllll in there... repeatedly.snazzed 4yr Shotokan, 2yr Hapkido, 1mth Chito-Ryu.The Hapkido place devolved into a McDojo during my stay."Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand."
April 16, 200521 yr A kwoon, dojo, or equivalent which uses well practiced business tactics to have a polished image, but which provides training of very inferior quality and inflated, valueless rankings. Typically, but not always, these are expensive as well. "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." - Baleia
April 16, 200521 yr Such places often times lure the impatient by promising black belts in short time periods, without putting forth diligent efforts. Unfortunately, since many people can fall prey to this, such places will always have a clientele that will make them decent money.
April 16, 200521 yr Author I want to thank you all for explaining that for me, we call them "Paper Tiger Dojo's" at our place, I am a 1st Kyu. I'm in my 5th year.goju-dave 1st Kyu Brown Belt
April 16, 200521 yr The reason they are called MCdojos is because they offer 'drive through' black belts.... want fries with that???
April 16, 200521 yr SUPER SIZE ME PLEASE !!!!! ~Master Jules......aka "The Sandman""I may be a trained killer......but Im really a nice guy"
April 18, 200521 yr mcdojo!.hilarious!! ta da da da da...i'm loving it. "The wise and successsful will always be met with violent opposition by mediocre minds."
April 19, 200521 yr we have a chain of McDojo's near me,i know a guy that got his second dan in 6 months!!!!!and its not unheard of for 8th kyu's to be given there own clubs, wear black belts and tell there students its rude to ask your instructor his grade! i dare not mention their name as they have already (un-successfully) tried sueing the e.k.g.b. because they called them "cowboys" in a news letter...... sticks and stones may break my bones, but i am trained to kill you.
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