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Fun fact about Kuk Sool:
He (Goodridge) was approached by a Kuk Sool Won school before competing and was told he would be given a black belt if he agreed to represent the school, so even though he had only two classes under his belt, he represented Kuk Sool Won in the tournament.
His debut fight provided one of the most violent KO's in the history of the sport. It was the one move he had been taught by the school.
Yep, all true. I've never heard that they taught him that 1 move though, and considering it's a semi-common BJJ move, i have my doubts on that.
But the Kuk Sool Won association is kind of a shitshow with good marketing claiming that they have "secret" techniques, or the only "complete" martial art. REminds me a lot of certain Gracies actually.
We broke away from the main association a number of years back because of their trying to control how we ran classes, what we charged our students, not allowing students to compete in open tournaments, things like that. (KSW also does not allow their students to do full contact sparring, we do)