About Fake Martial Arts Masters

How to distinguish a fake from a real martial artist. Self-defense, sports or health improvement - what to choose?
In our time, like mushrooms after rain, a large number of different martial arts schools have grown all over the world, including in the United States, many of which in fact are not.
The opening of the information space and the freedom of entrepreneurship have served as fertile ground not only for the development of commercial sports, paid sections of martial arts, but also various incomprehensible fake disciplines that disguise themselves as martial arts, recruiting students in all possible ways, pursuing really only one goal - making money.
The problem is that such fake martial arts not only take the time and money of their students, but also break their psyche, give rise to an unreasonable confidence in them that they can stand up for themselves.
It is especially dangerous when they work with children.
Among the huge list of schools, styles and sections that position themselves as those who will teach self-defense, it is very difficult for an unprepared person to understand.
To begin with, it is necessary to separate these three things: the improvement of a person, sports achievements and self-defense.
How to distinguish the real martial arts?

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