SIFU SHEPPARDS BIO

"CLAYPOOL WING CHUN ACADEMY"

SIFU SHEPPARDS BIO

Here I was going to add the people and styles I have trained with but I feel my students need to get to know me instead of a marketing scam of who my masters and grandmasters are.

I dont goto weekend seminars and display them on the net to mislead people into thinking I have spent years in a art that was only a 2 day course.....(Beware of these people)

I want people to come to me because of my skill in the martial arts not who I have trained with. I refuse to live off of someone elses name in order to get students.

Rank Is something that other masters display proudly but I look at it as putting yourself on the line because if your enemy knows what styles and people you have trained with ......... (*THEN YOU ARE A OPEN BOOK FOR ALL TO READ*)

RANK:

There are people out there that keep on trying to out do each other always trying to proclaim a higher rank. Today you see someone with a green belt and next week they are wearing a black belt with 8 stripes......SAD

I love to wear the kung fu uniform because with the kung fu or tai chi uniform it strips away all rank and keeps your enemy guessing. And thats the way it should be.

Watching these self proclaimed Grandmasters and Secret Shaolin Masters who have the full proof method destroy any martial art makes me sick,

WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY NEXT POINT HOW MANY MARTIAL ARTS CAN ONE MAN MASTER IN A LIFETIME. MOST ASIANS SAYS IT TAKES A LIFE TIME TO MASTER ONE ART.

THEN WHY IS IT WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME INSTRUCTORS PAGES YOU SEE THAT THEY HAVE MASTERED 5 OR 6 ARTS ...I SEEN A GUY IN TENNESSEE THAT CLAIMS TO HAVE MASTERED A 100 STYLE OF KUNG FU....HA HA HA FUNNY........GROW UP PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or the best ones who goto 2 or 3 seminars and walk away 2nd or 3rd degree black belts . And then they walk around talking trash because they have been built up to think they are Bruce Lee

They talk trash to the right person and they get their face smashed in. At this point when they are laying on the ground and all their friends are pointing and laughing. At that point they realize that the 500 bucks they just forked out for the seminar should have been put towards real training. If they are able.

Not long ago there was a woman who walked around with 3 Belts on her waist all Grandmasters Belts and she was laughed out of the dojo. From that day I never looked at rank the same again.

So in the end here is what I have to say:

I have spent my life building a name for myself in the martial arts. People in my home town know me as the karate guy. I have the respent of my students because they know when they walk out side of my dojo they will be able to defend themselves.

The bottom line is I have the certificates and documents to back up what I say along with written praise from the police departments, Rec. Departments and Colleges I have taught at.

In Virginia I'm recognized as a "Subject Matter Expert"

In West Virginia I'm "Crisis Prevention Certified"

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