{"id":214,"date":"2006-03-03T01:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2006-03-03T01:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T01:43:00","slug":"crooked-martial-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/crooked-martial-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Crooked Martial Artists!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been following this story for some time now and I’m glad to see that it is catching some much needed attention. Mishawaka’s Champion Martial Arts<\/a> of South Bend, Indiana is under investigation for being crooks. That’s right, after receiving multiple complaints from local families for help, the local television station (Local 16) went undercover to uncover this story<\/a>. It turns out that Mishawaka’s Champion Martial Arts is getting people to sign a multi-year contract to the tune of $4,000.00 that doesn’t allow them to cancel for any reason. Champion verbally tells everyone they can cancel within 30 or 3 days depending on who you speak to, but when the television undercover crew attempts to cancel the day after signing the contract they are told they cannot! That’s right, less then 24 hours later the owner is telling them tough come or not you must pay me!!
\nObviously this story is disgusting and goes against the grain of the martial arts philosophy which promotes discipline, integrity, and honesty, hardly what is being demonstrated here. Luckily other clubs on the area passed the test with flying colors, specifically Sponseller\u2019s Taekwondo<\/a> had no problem offering a refund because they don’t make you sign a contract! OSU to Sponseller\u2019s Taekwondo located in South Bend<\/a>, Indiana, for maintaining high business standards and the martial arts philosophy.
\nOne last word, people, please remember that self-defense is about awareness. Read the fine print! Oh, and stay away from Mishawaka’s Champion Martial Arts in South Bend, Indiana!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been following this story for some time now and I’m glad to see that it is catching some much needed attention. Mishawaka’s Champion Martial Arts of South Bend, Indiana is under investigation for being crooks. That’s right, after receiving multiple complaints from local families for help, the local television station (Local 16) went undercover Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}