Hello all. I was going through my list of Facebook message requests from people who are not connected to me and found this gem from last year, from this instructor. I have had zero contact with this person or his dojo, so I have no idea what this is about, but for non-UK readers Mod edit- it was a racial slur Who is this guy and why was he sending me slurs? MAP wouldn't let me upload another file; here is the message: Mod note: I appreciate that you blurred the offending words, but that is STILL masked profanity and against our TOS. So it has been edited out. For the sake of your question, let's just say the message had profanity, homophobic and racial slurs directed at you out of the blue and leave it at that.
This subforum is full of UK-based BJK practitioners who are good people. I figure they'd know more about this guy. Also it's a good thing to flag for people considering training with him, that he sends out messages like this to strangers.
Good reasoning. I can't imagine somebody like that is going to have much of a reputation to be honest, unless he lives a secret life of an internet troll. Might benefit you to blur/cross out the profanity though as it goes against ToS and the Mods are going to remove it when they see it : P. What a weirdo though right? (the guy, not the mods : P)
Thanks! Changed the image out for one with his specific words blurred. It really is weird, isn't it? Also strange that his dojo site is full of Kacem Zoughari videos, considering the slurs Trevor employs for brown people (such as Kacem)...
I don't know Trevor directly, but there's no place or justification for racism or bigotry in the Buj or anywhere in life He trained in the Buj and Systema back in the day, but lived(s) a long way away from quality folk which may have influenced his training He posts quite a lot of old Taikai footage (helpful) mixed with a fair amount of his own stuff Judge someone by their basics - [ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=raVF_wyCYuQ[/ame] To my mind a lot of his posts are along the lines of "I was doing that way back in the 90s" or similarly self aggrandizing Most recently he surfaced when criticizing the BJJ community for something about mount escapes and Simon Yeo responded nicely I post his mount escape videos for your pleasure and entertainment [ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY_dNDaJ1io[/ame] [ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDL8UB_Noac[/ame] Please note that these are not representative of the Buj's approach
Pointing out the racism, homophobia, and overall deplorable behavior of an instructor. So that others who dislike such ism's are fairly warned. People like that should indeed be rooted out from the MA teaching community as much as possible. Also, to see if others have had any similar experiences.
Exactly. It's not any personal offense (I find him more pathetic than anything); I don't even fall into the groups that he's using such language about (not that that makes a difference.) I wanted to know if anyone else received abusive messages from this person who I have never met nor have any connection with. I also want any prospective students of his to be aware of the kind of person this is.
I believe he is a member here. Username Systema1 http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1074867564&postcount=32
Didn't look like hacked account messages and the tone/writing style is totally congruent with his post history here, so I don't think so.