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I'm a former member of FSD. Last summer I received an email from webmaster@learnkung-fu.com about Matrix-like screensaver and firewalkcanada.com.
The webmaster did a little mistake. He put all student's email adresses in the "TO" field so you can see about 385 adresses.
I thought we may send Sringfellow's link (http://fangshendont.blogspot.com/) to all of them.
What do you think ?
That would seriously rock. I say do it so long as you can find a legally acceptable way. They would be so...
:owneddanc
It seems that JP believes that everyone needs to honour their contracts and pay up, except when it means him.
Oh, another important point- all of the information I've seen indicates that JP has yet to pay. I guess he considers himself... above the law (cue Steven Segal).
Interesting find...so Jacques isn't one for honouring contracts himself. Do as I say, not as I do- just like his teaching style. :tongue11:
Runner- make some posts and PM me. I may have found a legit way to execute Operation Pink Passenger Pigeon.
No one tell TKD, Shhhhh, quiet, no one tell. My god is he going to have a field day with this!
It was the secret history where Bruce Lee secretly moved to Canada and took on a few selected superstudents, and showed them the secrets of his innermost secrets.
We are writing to defend our position in this matter. Below is our counterargument.
We contracted Mr. Patenaude to produce martial artists based on our youth preliminary to seeking alternate schools for the project. Mr. Patenaude was the first teacher on this project, as the alteranate one had not been selected. Mr. Patenaude had presented himself as a professional Sijo who could produce martial artists based on our eagerness to learn, only referring to Wing Chun Do for background material. We were not at all satisfied with the skills presented by Mr. Patenaude.
However, since we are not experts in this area, we consulted Bullshido.net, former students, a Dog Brother, Consumer Affairs, and an actual person with martial arts experience. All involved evaluated FSD, and all of them expressed the same opinion: Mr. Patenaude's FSD did not meet industry standards for professional teaching. It was quite derivative of the contract, and not original as stipulated in our agreement. Furthermore, all experts said that they did not feel Mr. Patenaue was experienced enough to produce a martial artist of sufficient quality to avoid an ass kicking - no matter how many revisions FSD underwent. As such, we thought it best to absorb the loss, and saw no choice but to terminate the agreement.
When tried to communicate our feelings to Mr. Patenaude and to work out an equitable dissolution of the contract, Mr. Patenaude became upset, and hung up on us during the phone conversation with threats of legal action. He would not discuss an out-of-court settlement.
In our opinion, Mr. Patenaude has been more than adequately remunerated for his services-for work performed to date developing FSD ($12,000). In addition the due date for the next payment is July 2004($1,000) and the final payment is not due until December 31st, 2004.
We are discontinuing the contract as Mr. Patenaude cannot deliver on his end of the agreement-and no amount of re-vamping of the BBC will change that. And there's no hope or intention of using any of his martial arts in the future. Furthermore, we cannot consider any sort of settlement due to this unreasonable pre-emptive legal action, and his unwillingness to settle the matter earlier - we've lost enough on this endeavor already, and wish to leave it behind us with no further expense.
We hope you will agree that we have already made all reasonable attempts to remedy the situation and are not liable for any further costs.
Sincerely,
[SIGNATURES]
Disgruntled former and current FSD students
P.P.S. We were also told that this is not a valuable contract. No shit.
Sure looks alot different when the shoe is on the other foot......
And they called it Kung Fu Love!
Oh I guess they'll never know
How a young heart really feels
And why I love him, I mean her, yah her cause I love men, I mean women so
And they called it Kung Fu Love!
Just because we're seventeen
Tell them all it isn't fair
To take away my only dream (of owning my own chain of Kung Fu academies!)
I cry each night these tears for you
My tears are all in vain
Oh I'll hope that one day you'll try breaking arrows and sniffing poop
You'll be back in my arms once again
Someone help me, help me please
Is the answer in a video by DeMilles
How can I ever tell them
This just isn't a cheap scam to steal your money...
Someone help me, help me please
Is the answer in selling AmWay or Tony Robbins
How can I ever tell them
This is not some cheap scam with black belt clubs...
Okay I think I've purged myself, although I still feel a little gassy. Holy crap on a stick! Thankfully we've modified the thread a little so we can now send messages to Jacques (can I call you Jacques, Sokemon feels so impersonal) anyways.
(would you guys mind? Please stop reading so I can address a quick note to Jacques!)
Dear Jacques,
Um, listen. I know this might be hard to take at first but listen. Kung Fu Love, not a good title. Hell Purple Monkey's of Kung Fu Doom, is a better title. Instead of hanging out with your cronies and suggesting movie titles to guys who are so scared of you that they'd sniff your shit and swear it was roses (oh, wait they have done that haven't they.) Listen the point is, find some people that disagree with you and ask them what they think of titles. This will avoid all of this pain in the long run.
Anyway, must run along now. I'm training for a potential fight with Shadow Beast this summer. I think you know him, anyways.
Take care.
TKD
Alright, sorry guys. Just had to get that out of the way.
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