Just saw on Bullshido that there was like a hundreds of pages-long thread on a "karate instructor" I knew when I was young and doing the karate kid thing. I knew the guy was a weirdo but apparently he has gone on to claim mental powers and shit, and is a self professed master of all kinds of things, and a fake doctor as well.
Guy owned a rival dojo that always talked massive shit about ours. When Karate Kid got big, he changed his school's name to Cobra Kai, lifting the logo straight from the movie, and I heard stories about him abusing students and doing those bullshit "I hit you 20 times in a second" demonstrations.
He wouldn't let his students attend our classes or tournaments, and he kicked some of them out for it.
His "black belt" wife I knew because she was a teacher at my middle school. Once, she broke up a fight I was in, and I accidentally flattened her with an elbow because her dumb ass had grabbed me from behind, so I didn't look, I thought I was being jumped - I just chucked that elbow back as hard as I could. It was really satisfying when I found out that it was his wife (she tried to have me arrested, and my instructor chewed me out for it, albeit through a laughing fit).
One of his top guys, and I guess an instructor of his at the time, showed up at one of our tournaments drunk and cold-cocked some young black belt. After being escorted outside he found his way back in and, no shit, tried to do some kind of groin grab dragon claw shit to the single toughest human being I've ever known (one of our black belts, an ogre of a man). While being escorted out the second time he threatened to come back with a gun.
And he had guns, lots, and a long criminal record. Had even held up a family friend over a dope deal.
The rival dojo owner apparently didn't fire him for this lol.
Man, the 80s-90s karate scene was lit.