"Lieutenant X" Admits False Advertising

[Kilroy99]

And yet, the ads for Lt. X still show up on THIS site under GoogleAds... FEAR NO MAN it says.
So does "Make $100,000 year with your own DOJO."

[goosetherumfoodle]

I'm glad to see this. I had a friend who was convinced he wanted the Lt. X dvd and I had to talk him out of it. He's an idiot.

[Judah Maccabee]

Other possible resource:

www.archive.org

Wayback Machine archives of websites; enter in a site and see what might come up.

[Japan Junkie]

I have senseis yelling at me for posting on Bullshido. They hate it so much and even told me I'd be banned from the school if I ever posted anything on Bullshido and used their name. Other people warned me not to go near here because they post all kinds of allegations about people and disrespect martial artists. One sensei made me remove any reference to him or his school on here in my posts. I even had to change my user name to a monikor way back to keep his minions from finding me on here. I almost bought into the idea that this website is bad for martial arts. However, after seeing this thread and reading about Lieutenant X and exposing frauds, and even seeing real legal advice from actual lawyers who post on here, I salute what Bullshido is doing in terms of exposing the frauds and give them that much more respect for doing this. Some people will sue because of defamy of character and will try to go after these kinds of websites who make these claims. However, I now realize that maybe those senseis who hate the site are just worried about being exposed. As long as Bullshido isn't just making assumptions and calling legit people frauds, I think it's great that people spend the time doing investigations instead of just sucking up to every martial artist as "equal" when there is alot of garbage out there. Seeing how people actually hire private investigators to expose corruption, and Bullshido does it for free because they don't want people to be scammed (and I really don't like being BS being taught and people being cheated out of money), it's hard not to think of this site as sort of a crime-fighting division of martial arts. Great work, and I will say that good research is done by the users here. There's really no other site quite like it.

[Te(V)plar]

bwahahahha

[OnceLost]

seeing how people actually hire private investigators to expose corruption, and Bullshido does it for free because they don't want people to be scammed (and I really don't like being BS being taught and people being cheated out of money), it's hard not to think of this site as sort of a crime-fighting division of martial arts.

Actually, I don't do it because I don't want people to be scammed - I do it because I enjoy kicking down the doors of Lies and Deceit and then forcibly fucking Fraud with the dildo of Truth. Although the "crime-fighting division of martial arts" has a really nice ring...can we get matching outfits? With capes?

[Fantasy Warrior]

Thanks.

Oh and!

On this site
http://www.nobletraining.com/Become-A-Lethal-Weapon.htm
at the bottom, there's what I believe to be a testimonial from a nonexistant SWAT team leader.

I believe that to be false, and to constitute impersonation of a police officer, which is a felony under New Jersey state law.

Re the testimonials, some Bullshido members made rudementry enquiries trying to track some of his testimonial providers down some time earlier this year if memorary serves me right. they could not locate even one of the alleged individuals and concluded that the balance of probability was that most/all of his testimonials he uses are fabrications. They were going to post an article on the fake testimonials but no one seemed very interested so they gave up.

Good luck.

[supercrap]

"I do it because I enjoy kicking down the doors of Lies and Deceit and then forcibly fucking Fraud with the dildo of Truth."

Beautiful.

[OnceLost]

'Tis why I live.

[Peachy1900]

I discovered about this guy a while back.... and was interested about his claims..... so i subscribed to him and receive email from him..... If anyones wondering now hes giving out business advice from some random, as well and even more martial arts advise. Thanks for posting this it just confirms my suspicions.

[Norava]

Actually, I don't do it because I don't want people to be scammed - I do it because I enjoy kicking down the doors of Lies and Deceit and then forcibly fucking Fraud with the dildo of Truth.

Came here trying to check out the scam on this, and i ended up finding some true art /applause

(also i respect any site that sets up a system to say "You are a bit smarter from clicking this" on a register button ;P cheers)

[265lbsfist]

Here he claims judo, BJJ and Karate black belts alongside many grappling medals:

http://www.closecombattraining.com/c...ing/indexb.php

[Sam Browning]

Having watched Chris Pizzo screw up a basic hip throw on a compliant partner I can only say that there is no way in hell he's a legitimate Judo Black Belt.

[golok]

You know, in the three years since I started this thread, I've started wondering whether the Chris Pizzos of the world even matter. Or, rather, whether railing against them does any good.

Granted, the man appears to be almost utterly odious. I don't think his material is really "get you killed" terrible but it's mediocre at best.

But there will always be this sort of material, and there will always be people who buy it. 99.9% of Chris Pizzo DVDs will end up on shelves somewhere, never practiced, never needed and never used. Right along with SCARS and Tae Bo.

Furthermore, as flawed as Pizzo may be, he no doubt knows so much more than most people who would buy his crap that they'll benefit from it. Does it even matter to someone who is a complete MA neophyte whether they receive their instruction in how to make a fist from Chris Pizzo or Dan Inosanto?

I like what Bullshido does. I find it very funny to read sometimes, especially the in-person bullyings of charlatans. It's good that someone is fighting the good fight, because otherwise the marketing sociopaths would drown out anything at all legitimate.

But more and more it seems like a piss in the ocean. And in this case, the ocean is made of piss too.

:sad3:

[Sam Browning]

If we can serve the 5% to 15% of the martial arts newbie market that actually wants to actively protect their own interests as consumers then we've done our jobs.