McDojo Breakdown: Bullshido Jedi Master

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[@1vbAPiYk]

I hate when an attacker gently holds my hands or just touches my fingertips in a stationary manner

[@DGB120]

Absolutely brutal

[@RyokuRamstone]

And then it’s like dude can ya just be patient I’m thinking about hot women right now I’m not able to zap you at the moment jeez 🥋

[@Bryan-mt8ht]

He may be hitting on you, not attacking…don’t give him your phone #, unless you’re that kind of guys.

[@MiddleAgedBob]

The worst is when the attacker decides to attack when your mind isn’t in the right place.

[@tomshepherd4901]

"I was pulling his mind..." You were pulling his leg....

[@bodyzoasispersonaltraining9186]

Nah it was his dongle he pulled😂😂😂

[@DrMakak]

The Maveric Mystic is my personal favourite. "I drop a super heavy akasha that defrags his mind into the magnetism" is just peak comedy.

[@robertdemon3550]

He just said a word salad of nonsense.

[@Steve-rs2jq]

Did you notice the couple of normal running steps in the middle of stumbling toward the water??

[@iitim2152]

Capacitors... for those that don't know a Capacitor is a small single charge battery. It realeas a lot of energy then needs to be recharged. Usually, they are for activating a circuit or machine. People don't have Capacitors, that isn't how biomechanics work.

[@edakey]

What about the flux capacitor?

[@iitim2152]

@@edakey I mean that actually makes more sense then this dude.... The flux capsitor releases the energy that is required to break the time barrier.... It actually makes sense, its not real but at least its coherent.

[@ebellyfish4256]

But his joints!!! They store his magical energy! 😁

[@jeronimo196]

The guy with the magic book may be on to something. "How to control someone's thoughts." - Think of a lemon. Imagine how bitter a lemon is, how yellow and porous its surface is. Did you imagine it? Good, then I just controlled your thoughts. Congratulations, you are now breathing manually. "Transplantation of consciousness into objects, animals, people". - Haven't had much success with that one yet. Once when I was little, I bumped my head into a door-knob, pretty hard. I think I lost consciousness, but I'm not sure the door-knob gained consciousness as a result. I'll write that one off as a partial success. "Talking to the dead" - easy. I've yet to get a response from the dead, but talking to them is not a problem. In many ways, even easier than talking to the living. "How to become invisible." - Another partial success. Women are around 50% of the population and I'm completely invisible to them, at least. "How to levitate" - Easy for a short period of time. Everyone can levitate for about a second, if they start from a platform with height 4.5m and gently float to the ground. Just have to concentrate a bit. "Power over life and death". - That's a tricky one. Americans have access to guns, which gives them power over death. The rest of the world has "free" healthcare, which gives them limited power over life. Combining them is the tricky part. "How to raise the dead" - lift with your knees, not your back. "Deliberate creation of beings - elementals, larvae, phantasms and phantoms." - Due to technical difficulties (see point 4: invisibility), I've yet to create any beings - deliberately or otherwise. I've heard positive things, though - and remain cautiously optimistic. "How to animate pictures." - Eventually, the wizards at Pixar solved this one completely. "How to communicate with deities." - See point 3, talking to the dead. "Seeing through time and space" - yes. From what little I understand about Einstein's Special Relativity - that's how seeing works. "Magical healing from a distance." - As a novice, I chuck potions at the sick - liquid or condensed into little white tablets. As my abilities improve, I'll aim to dispense the potions from farther and farther away. Though, technically - QM says any interaction in the universe is "from a distance" - since different atoms can never actually touch.

[@mattmax8599]

Lift with your knees not your back is amazing 😂

[@markhilbert6573]

I was walking through a rough part of london at night and I became aware I was being followed by a gang of yobs . I knew at some point they were going to gently put thier hands on me or try to touch my hands . I keep my walking speed just enough so they couldnt gently touch me and I keep my hands in my pockets completely thwarting thier vicious gentle attacks.

[@tomshepherd4901]

To answer the question, everyone would love to have special powers. When a person meets someone who says he has such powers, demonstrates them, and says he can teach them, that person may want to believe it so they can get those powers too. Especially if that person is paying for the privilege of learning it, they don't want to find out that it's all BS, so they suspend disbelief. Ironically, psychological aspects of the martial arts do have an effect. Fighters try to intimidate each other. Militarys have used various methods to mislead, demoralize, or intimidate an opposing force. These things have a tangible effect. It's when the instructor and students start actually believing the BS that things go wrong. It is perfectly legitimate to teach intimidation as a form of self defense. If you look scary and dangerous, people are less likely to mess with you. If a person wants to use electricity to control an attacker's muscles and knock them down, they should buy a stun gun.

[@christiangauthier727]

Yeah, wishful thinking and wanting to be special are definitely powerful components of the phenomenon of cult indoctrination. Exploiting this particular weakness is one of the most successful ways they can initially pull people in.

[@kylehowell5610]

I think the people that get sucked into those things are very vulnerable, not just open minded. They are looking for anywhere or anything to belong to. Once they get invested they cling to it no matter how silly it gets. Famously like scientology.

[@almorrison9110]

Like hippies

[@kevanthompson4848]

First rule of martial arts, when someone is attacking you and you have a stick.. DONT hit them with the stick, but offer them to hold and touch the stick

[@mavka.chorna]

Alexa, play "Magic stick" by 50Cent

[@tenpheon]

I thought it was the first rule of marriage

[@almorrison9110]

"Yoda has entered the chat"

[@dirtwal1311]

Justification of time/money invested plus no one wants the shame of admitting they were wrong. Ego is an amazing thing

[@McDojoLife]

True

[@matthewhall7976]

0:30 he's going to release his energy into people.. 😂😂😂

[@matthewhall7976]

Answering the question of the day I believe that people become closed minded after joining the bs classes because they don't want to feel more stupid than they do.. so they double down proving their stupid even bolder.. also five dilmans seems legit..👍

[@rmcdudmk212]

That dude better stay away from my tension centers. I happen to like them tense 😂😂😂

[@jefflenormand4313]

To answer the question, some people are willing to reject the truth for assurance. They might start off open minded, but once they have assurance they will reject the truth that would collapse that assurance.

[@parac0sm0naut26]

I can make people move away like that. I call it "Not Bathin"

[@seanheisey8645]

So cool to have briefly met you on the plane yesterday man!!! Love the content as always 🎉

[@McDojoLife]

Nice to meet you as well. Truly appreciate the support

[@bravelilspidey]

The question of the day for rhe students: I think the students are brainwashed and scared of being seen as a fool. They are in denial, and yet they want to fit in somewhere, they just don't know where. So they just stick together to be a part of something.

[@almorrison9110]

It's how religion works too

[@seadawg93]

Minor point: "Thought Control" in lesson 1 of Bardon's book does not refer to controlling the thoughts of others, but to controlling one's own thoughts, similar modern mindfulness meditation. Also, while he definitely teaches the other stuff, at least half of the things mentioned are explained more as theoretical possibilities that an occult master could do after spending their whole life developing that one skill, not as a normal thing for any of his students to be able to do. That still might sound absolutely ridiculous, understandable, but it is still very different than the stuff being resented here of by Rasmus or by this guy.

[@guillermoletsworkitout3522]

[@JUDGERAMBO]

I was a funeral and spoke to a dead person, not much for words.

[@CountryKarate]

Another great video. I pressed that like Button.

[@McDojoLife]

Truly appreciate the support

[@BMO_Creative]

Dude, He's gotta have you as a guest to try this stuff! LOL...

[@jpsholland]

Actually, Bas Rutten challenged them, on his expenses, to do this on him in his dojo in the netherlands. No one took the challenge. Even now Bas Rutten is old and the challenge still standing, no one shows up.

[@jpsholland]

The smell is strong in this one, he might become a powerful enemy of the empire.

[@BruceSelby1]

Great stuff. Keep the martial arts world honest.

[@KempoWarrior1954]

Looks very authentic to me 👍🍷

[@NickvonZ]

I've got 500 acres of ocean-front property in Iowa I will sell you CHEAP! (Of course I know you were kidding!😅)

[@KempoWarrior1954]

@@NickvonZ Sorry but I wasn’t born yesterday! Anyway, I’m still waiting to hear from that Nigerian woman who I recently sent $5,000.

[@NickvonZ]

@@KempoWarrior1954 😄👍

[@Scarecrowswdsmn]

I’ve always wanted to see the conversations before these videos. “Hey I’m gonna say some stuff and then I need you to awkwardly fall towards me.”

[@scandisamurai8899]

5 Dillmans! 😂 (and the cheerful children's show music was a nice touch btw)

[@Tscaperock]

Here! Feel my finger! Now pull it!

[@pfblack]

if it walks like a cult and quacks like a cult...

[@julianroninbb]

I've noticed that many practitioners of Qi-based disciplines, such as those in Tai Chi (especially Adam Mizner's followers) and Hermeticism (especially Mark Rasmus's students), are made to feel inadequate if they aren't sensitive enough to perceive Qi / energy powers. As a result, many individuals, eager to believe, become extremely overly sensitive and convince themselves that they can feel Qi energy flowing into them, allowing themselves to be moved with minimal force. This is quite similar to when people are touched by a priest and fall over, claiming to be moved by the "hand of God."

[@icemanespoo2977]

When your mind is open and your assistant playes along this works.

[@ComboSmooth]

Their understanding of magnetism is on par with that of the Fast movies

[@RandyWinn42]

You asked why students of chi power instructors become close minded after joining. May I share my experience? For 10-15 years, I practiced aikido, which may generally be considered a less extreme form of chi-centered martial arts. I don't want to argue about this, your dojos may be different, but while we never had those ridiculous no-touch throwdown, we did have a lot of questionable activities, especially in the area of kokyonage (breathe throws - not throwing people by breathing on them, but by using chi which seems to involve cleverly aligning balance, momentum and so forth to the attacker's disadvantage --- the problem with this class of techniques generally being that they relied on the attacker not responding intelligently to the defense). Having had experience in a very different martial art, I was aware that these just didn't work from a martial standpoint, but they were a lot of fun - flying through the air and landing safely is a thrill. So why did I as a student stick with the art for so many years, devoting precious time and mat fees believing that I was learning something useful (beyond the art of falling down safely, which has been useful in my everyday life - falls are a common source of injury in us older people.) My theory is that when I started, I believe the dojo leadership's confident assurance that the thing worked really well. I believed then and still believe now that they were sincere. We saw the movie of O-Sensei throwing around Marines and senior instructors performing Hollywood-style throws of multiple attackers, so it seemed reasonable to believe. I practiced on faith for years, understanding that it is a subtle art and you can't expect it to work well until you get really good at it. Over time, sceptical students left. We who remained became friends - still are friends although I've moved across the continent. When you spend time working together with your friends, you tend to believe in what you're doing. Is that logical? Who cares, it is human. It wasn't until I had an unplanned negative financial situation requiring harsh appraisal of priorities that I regretfully stopped practicing. With the passage of time, I can look at things more objectively, without the influence of continued practice of faith. I suppose joint locks work as well as joint locks do in any grappling art, and as I said, the falling safely stuff is very useful, but the chi talk is faith-based and relies on the attacker performing as expected. When practicing, we weren't supposed to react as intelligent attackers because then the technique could not be learned. There was complete social sanction against violating this rule. I appreciate that this statement may hurt a lot of feelings and that is not my intention, but that is what I see. Is that too vague? An example may help. We often practiced techniques for defense against a punch or a one-hand grab that could easily be defeated by the attacker simply using a free hand or foot to smack someone in the mouth (insert Mike Tyson quote here). We never did that because that would mean our practice partner couldn't practice the technique. See how logical that is? TL;DR - skeptics leave the dojo, those who remain hold on to faith that the thing will work until the Sunk Cost Fallacy kicks in.

[@tprnbs]

Be careful Rob, they can drop super heavy akasha on your channel! The students become close minded due to sunk cost fallacy or/and fear of "punishment"(social rejection, leaving group could mean losing part of their identity and "friends")

[@xziled1_1980]

Rob sometimes people want to belong to something and sometimes they want something to believe in in the end they believe they find a perfect world in these mcdojos and don't want their illusion shattered. To some even ignorance is bliss

[@driscollmedia]

This is what happens when we’re not supposed to bully people lol. Seriously more people need to know what getting punched in the face means.

[@derekhoyle5371]

Im with you Rob, I would welcome someone to try to pull on my mind.

[@thatcomicdad1687]

Kumar sounds just like George Dillman the way he talks about how to manipulate energy and why it doesnt always work

[@LloydM2]

Willful ignorance is bliss. They think they found answers and fear those answers being challenged thus experiencing further disappointment.

[@lukaszprzytulski7538]

the sandals are answer. the source of every indie guy power :D

[@kididaho92]

Their close-mindedness comes from getting defensive after making decisions based on one's insecurity. People like that are vulnerable and also are quick to feel like victims of their own stupid decisions.

[@Kendross22]

Do it with a big wall in between, no sounds, and the person has never interacted with the “sifu.” If the other person gets thrown around I’ll come over and try it.

[@shrooman777]

If he’s not punching propane tanks, I’m not signing up.

[@mdug7224]

I think that a new student with either no skills, balance or experience or with desire for super powers goes to a class, gets knocked about a bit to begin with as a convincer, which programmes compliance, and is then sucked down thd rabbit hole of conditioned response.

[@seadawg93]

In answer of the question: "when they start off so open minded?" I'm not sure they do necessarily start off so open minded. I also think that there is a wide variety of reasons why a student might close off, depending on the student and the situation. Maybe some start off as true believers, desperate to find power or enlightenment, and others have an instructor who can do impressive things and then adds in some strange stuff, and they either stay for normal impressive stuff, or believe the odd stuff because their already impressed with the teacher, there are probably other reasons. I assume that for many, at some point they like what they are doing, believe in it to varying degrees, and are happy to keep doing what their doing, not wanting to constantly interrogate or defend their hobby.

[@Saltyslackerhobby]

I feel my Asstrally self saying “Pucker up!”

[@Saltyslackerhobby]

Damn it, I’m in the WRONG business…

[@Gaarasfan24]

Dude thinks he’s a cyborg....open my capacitor and eject energy into him lol. Wut? 😂😂😂

[@AlkaRez]

He's rapist it sounds like

[@Jason_g_kennedy]

So all I have to do is say " ya mum roots chickens." Confusing his mind.

[@franklynpatterson3265]

The students of these monsters become closed off because: 1. They started off having such a weak sense of self and personal power that they follow after these charlatans and 2. admitting to themselves or anyone else that they have been fooled and exploited by the aforementioned monstrous charlatans forces them to face realities about themselves that they are unwilling to face.

[@BillyTheKidsGhost]

''Peer pressure'' You can keep the 100 dollars, and give it to some kid.

[@christiansaint-pierre6797]

I think students become close-minded due to two major things: ego and the sunk cost fallacy. By investing so much of their identity into what it is they believe they are going to learn and will become once they “master” their skill, they close themselves off to any reasonable debate which might make them realize that their entire value system is flawed. Additionally, after having invested so much time, money and effort into their belief system, the sunk cost fallacy prevents them from objectively being able to let go or move past their nonsense, because it would once again mean that they have to admit that they were wasting their time, money and effort - another blow to their ego.

[@jimmy64224]

Really not trying to argue or convince, but I am genuinely curious, what do ya'll think about Adam Mizner doing this thing to Lyoyo Machida (mma fighter). Adam shot a documentary like promo (narrated by Morgan Freeman) where he pushes around Lyoto Machida, Brian Shaw (power lifter), and an Olympic fencer. What's ya'll opinion about that?

[@charlesthehammer4097]

I would like him to try that in Chicago

[@Mr850man]

Just lift your big toes or curl your tongue and he can't use the force against you

[@NickvonZ]

You know THAT'S right! 😃👍

[@McSozialphobie]

There are 3 possibilities: 1. The two are conspiring, both knowing its BS, trying to trick everybody else? (both know) 2. Is the student pretending without his teachers knowledge? (one knows) 3. Or does the placebo effect make the student spasm out? (none of them knows)

[@littledevilbmx9]

Just started out in BJJ so could use some new gear! So here's my answer. I think a lot of it falls down to a sense of community, and grows into subtle or maybe not so subtle brainwashing. It's easy to see from the outside, but once inside when you are surrounded by friends and family all nodding along to these ideas its easy to get caught up in it and not notice what's happening

[@iitim2152]

Maybe don't give mcdojo life ammunition such as " I trained under yoda".

[@Steve-rs2jq]

What would happen when two of these jokers with the same "abilities" confront to "fight"?? Never seen this scenario with any of these types??

[@ilirlluka6789]

I wonder what an elementary school physics teacher thinks when he hears these guys speak about magnetism the way they do.

[@NickvonZ]

This guy is pretty tall. I didn't know they stacked shit that high.

[@bodyzoasispersonaltraining9186]

This stuff and the akasha. 😂😂

[@originalAoitora]

Ngl life would be pretty awesome if everything that Franz guy wrote about was real.

[@MMAWARRIOR20]

400 years old?! he’s an immortal from the Highlander series🤺⚡️llol. There can be only😎

[@CorbCorbin]

“C’mon! With tha force, don’t stop! Schamoan!!! Hee-Hee-Hee” 🕴🏼

[@Hunglowwang]

Chama

[@thepracticaldad]

This is actually hard to watch.

[@McDojoLife]

Which part

[@tychobra1]

@@McDojoLife For me it is the part when these fake masters do "magic" and their student starts acting weirdly.

[@McDojoLife]

@@tychobra1 yea it’s wild

[@thepracticaldad]

@@McDojoLife the whole thing. It makes me sad about society's future!

[@McDojoLife]

Tip of the Iceburg around here unfortunately

[@JVlife22]

Well your MIND is DEFINITELY is not in the right place. You said “Capacitor” had you said Flux before that, I would’ve had to hunt you down 😂😂.

[@Xiy114]

People don't want to be feeling like they've been made merchandise of.

[@josephlane1614]

6:25 oh! So is that why he could see this video coming from a mile away😂. Show me a 15 second clip and i could tell you rob will be talking about him lmao.

[@30Mauser]

I think the students are looking for a parent-child relationship that has been lacking in their lives, then can't stand the sadness they would feel in letting the parent down by disbelieving or acknowledging that the parent is a fraud.

[@lordMartiya]

Because they already believed that and they're in denial.

[@koenig_der_zwiebeln9094]

I think students of "chi power instructors" become close minded after joining the cult because they're searching desperately for an identity and now they've found it. And they will defend that freshly acquired identity with their tooth and nails (can you say that in English?).

[@CaptPostmod]

The students can't admit to being wrong because they don't want to believe in themselves that they were suckered. Nobody likes to realize how easy it is to trick them-even though we're all gullible to one scam or another.

[@33iknow]

Stockhome syndrome... It's real!

[@christianbaer2897]

Thing is, that one of the first things cult leaders will probably tell their newly found disciples is that their teachings are "a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural" (just to keep that reference going). So the very first thing you will hear is: You made the right choice, you are on the path to find knowledge others are too close minded to seek out. The next thing they hear is: "You need a lot of training and it will not work for you until XYZ..." maybe with some random BS about how tongue twisting or toe crossing will absolutely counter chi attacks. Cult leaders are great in creating a world where everything makes perfect sense and outside views are irrelevant.

[@digitalpunk5365]

Damn…he used his capacitor

[@2406west]

Because they don’t want to feel dumb for believing in nonsense. They just want to act like their head was never in the sand

[@Hunglowwang]

This is EXACTLY what I've been trying to explain to my crush....if she justs opens her asstral plane to my main capacitor, our power lines could merge and technically we wouldn't be cheating on our significant others

[@parac0sm0naut26]

Does that involve finger work?

[@Hunglowwang]

Sometimes 😂​@@parac0sm0naut26

[@briantologist7629]

5 . Ouch.

[@M14armorer]

I don’t know…. Seems legit

[@BishopGG]

Imagine you go and it's real 😂 (Or fake it at first would be hilarious)

[@nach0runner]

I have no idea what causes them to be close minded to the possibility that the chi powers are fake

[@TabletsandTrees]

Students stay in these groups because they are experiencing things that feel like real, metaphysical events. A lot of people were raised believing in the supernatural. If you grow up with true belief these things are real, and have any vulnerability to developing psychosis, you can easily hallucinate when you are in these groups.

[@TheSouldead1]

I think the students believe what they’re being told for the same reason most people in cults do. It gives them a sense of belonging and friends that they didn’t have before. I’m willing to bet most if not all of the students have little to no friends and self esteem.

[@SeanStonehart]

How come nobody ever does this around me?

[@ramoncorrea5716]

Answer to QOTD: possibly NPCs. People who are soulless and need to be programed. Once they have a program, they fall in line and do not care for further commands.

[@mauritoxway]

Maybe because their self value is attached to their practice and take all criticism as an attack

[@snowjackson2542]

The reason they begin to reject everything else is because it's a cult - which we all knew already. Imagine being told that YOU are capable of these fantastic things because you think differently. You've been accepted into this group and as a group you all have these *abilities* that others don't understand because they're not like you. So why would you listen to the people who aren't in your group?

[@richysticks]

I just want the $100 gift voucher gas is killing my pockets right now lol

[@Jandro1083]

I have no idea why their students do it. I’ve always wanted to interview one of them and pick their brain about it.

[@CyberChrist]

Let's not confuse what he believes with what he _says_ he believes, eh? 🤣

[@w8ngr]

There needs to be a deviation between those who we think are just straight up lying and talking shit and those who talk shit and actually believe it Ie dillman knew what he was up too, I truly feel this dude actually believes his own crap

[@non-playablecharacter5549]

I really dislike that I be struggling financially and people like this get people to pay them probably absurd amounts to learn straight up fluff. It would almost be inspiring if I decided to finally cave and be a scuzz.

[@veiledallegory]

So…….??? Before he comes he pulls on his mind?

[@dposting2941]

Demons are real. When you've met one, you know. I'm not sayinf that's the case here, as if he could do it (through demons whether he is aware or thinks it himself), and not just using the manipulation/con of the power of suggestion, he would take the challenge.

[@Matg394]

I think people are just looking for a place of acceptance because they are lonely in their own lives! By finding someone who pays attention to them and pretends to care about them they become mindless and start to accept everything that is projected into their mind! Thoughts!?

[@donaldnewell4868]

It’s a true mystery to me how the students become believers in such nonsense. I’m pretty sure they have to start out credulous and wanting to believe in the magic.

[@deanarnold6284]

I astrally reject him……

[@buckybryan550]

My mind (which he cannot understand) always goes to the helpers. Are they truly cultists who drank the juice? Or were they promised something in return for their horrid acting skills? Also, Franz Bardons book is completely acceptable in the realm of D&D. Maybe this is just his fanfic approach to 5e or something LOL

[@perendinatorian]

whenever I see these videos i'm curious about the LARPers playing along. Like how is there this many dumbasses in one local area.

[@ardenstevens2466]

why do all bullshido masters have swords lol