McDojo Teaching Jiujitsu

February 5, 2008

Here’s a video of a “Grandmaster” Ted Gambordella teaching amateur jiujitsu techniques out of a McDojo in Texas. Not only is this guy deluding his students into believing they could properly defend themselves, he’s getting his rocks off by causing them pain in his overzealous demonstrations. Furthermore, this hack is professing to be teaching jiujitsu—no doubt riding the wave that BJJ has caused in this country.

What really makes me angry is that the students in this video are all very young and this dude is applying some very painful and dangerous techniques on them with very little discretion. If you’re as fired up as I am, go leave some comments on MetaCafe. Here’s the link to the video page.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1013655/basic_jiu_jitsu/

BJJ, Nutkicking

5 Comments

Mike said

ON February 6, 2008 10:58 am

“Jujitsu is [a] very violent sport. This is Japanese jujitsu.”

He’s certainly running through ukes, isn’t he?

Even more ignorant than his godawful technique and disregard for the tap is him not teaching his students to fall properly. I’m surprised there weren’t any popped elbows.
themonkey said

ON February 6, 2008 10:40 pm

You’re right, Mike. Falling properly should have been the prerequisite. And every one of those techniques probably should’ve been a dedicated lesson.
Jon said

ON February 27, 2008 10:44 am

Ya, those students are at least brown belt and don’t show that they can breakfall yet? Good call on the McDojo.
napo30 said

ON June 3, 2008 3:58 pm

wth funny i thought the same thing as every one else. poor kids they r going to try and enter a sub fight and get broke off. who does this guy think he is what a joke. he has no respect to the art or to any real bjj professor down to the student.
napo30 said

ON June 3, 2008 4:00 pm

i think you need a symbol to tap with in his so called school, since it seems like he might be deaf,dumb, and blind