Ep. 07 Death Inside The School Of Chung Moo Quan

Part of learning to handle a Chung Moo Quan Martial Arts School involved giving a private lesson. Each ‘information’ that came into the School was treated differently- Everyone’s searching for something; that’s what brought them to the School. The instructor’s job was to figure out what that was. When they came in, instructors used ‘sideways conversation’ to ask questions without revealing the agenda. The first thing was to get them to take a free private lesson. Once they agreed, have them sign a release form, which was known in the School as the DDM form, which stood for - ‘death doesn’t matter’. There was a story that an ‘information’ came into a Chicago School, signed the form, challenged the instructor, and the man was killed. The release form stated that death may occur during private lessons at the School, so they release all rights to hold the School responsible. Most of the time you wouldn’t tell the information what was on the form; other times you’d see there was a guy who wanted to cause a problem, i.e. fight. Then you made very clear the form says death may occur. If they still wanted to fight, you gave them a quarter and pointed at the gas station across the street and told them to go call 911 because after the fight one of us would be leaving in an ambulance.