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Once students are in your program, tell them that you only teach the secret techniques to you most trusted senior students to encourage students to stay with you until that point. When that time comes, you will have indoctrinated the students into you program and there will be no need to come up with the secret techniques.
Avoid students or people who know enough about the martial arts to question your methods.
Only hang around with other sokes so you may support each other. Do not deal with legitimate professionals that have inquisitive, skeptical minds.
Avoid students that have the potential of getting better than you. Stay with people with little self-confidence and self-respect, then you may mold them into you subjects.
Ability is not of concern to pseudo-masters, it is just the art of the con. Believe it or not, a big belly and being a physical wreck is a common trait of many sokes.
Never put down another soke. If ever asked your opinion of another soke, simply say, "She has some interesting methods," or "Yes, I have read some of his articles on the subject.” In this way, you may defuse any encounters and you are not compromising your partnership without other fake sokes.
Always include comments in your discussions about "Eastern" or "Oriental" secrets because the West seems to accept non-Western material folklore as fact.
Pronounce Karate as "KUH-RAH-TAE" instead of the standard "kuhRAHtee" or "kuhROTee" so you sound special.
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