Lie 1

I used to train in a martial art but I forget how to perform the techniques.

If you ever learned a physical skill at any time in your life, unless you have some mental defect or disease, you will never forget the skill. If you learned to skate at 10 years old and have never skated since and you put on skates at 40 years of age, you will be able to skate again in just a few minutes. If you learned a Taekwondo pattern at 10 years old and were proficient at it and then quit training in Taekwondo until you were 40 years old, your should still be able to perform the pattern after just a few minutes of review.

Lie 2

A new student in class claims to have studied some other martial art, but when he does not know how to a simple side kick.

If you ever learned how to kick properly, you will never forget how to kick properly. The kick may not be as high as before, but it should still be technically perfect.

Lie 3

When a person says he used to train in a martial art and you ask him to come to your class to train, he says that your class is too easy for him; that his art stresses hard training.

The person is not training anywhere now, so how could your class be easier than not training at all.

Lie 4

When a person says she used to train in a martial art and you ask her to come to your class to train, she says that her art has such deadly techniques that she would be afraid of harming someone in the class.

Yea right! Ask her come to class and show everyone some of her deadly techniques, and then you will show him some of your deadly techniques.