Leaving many of us members wondering what happened. No notice, email or phone call(talk about no love) specially for those of us with kids in the BJJ class which the kids really liked. Matt McDonald was a great instructor at the BJJ classes which is too bad.

The club had great potential with a great location close to everything in Vaughan, modern facilities and solid variety of disciplines but you still have to run a business like a business where customers are a priority. Too much drama and inconsistencies.

With all due respect to Bravado times have changed but they haven’t changed with the times. Descent place but limited variety of disciplines offered as shown on their website. Can’t speak about Matador but a number of PFC people went back to their Victory Club roots to Matador in the past few months so that is a good sign about a club.

Nowadays you have the following choices to train:
- “McDojos” plenty of Karate, Taekwondo cheap start but pay for every little thing after and very traditional mostly focus on kids. They avoid MMA like the plague.
- “Fighter Stables” which focus on developing fighters but not for the average joe. Not many around and you have to be prepared for the intensity. Big names know these places well.
- “Converts” – old traditional Martial Arts places that are transforming to the MMA way and run it like a business but still few out there and their locations usually suck.
- “Who am I” – Those places in transition looking for their niche in the MMA world and the bushido way
- “Wannabes” run by egomaniacs who can’t pass by a mirror without looking at themselves which is fine as long as you deliver the services in your club and grow the sport. You classify if you have more than 4 pics at your site from the MMA Expo with a UFC fighter.

So the day that somebody opens something that has the a customer driven approach, with great instructors, accesible locations not in the industrial area armpits, access to health(psysio, chiropractors, massage, nutrionist), clean facilities, choice of multiple disciplines for young, old, men, women, kids at a reasonable cost then finally MMA will move to the masses but until then the ongoing drama at martial arts places wanting to attract the legion of new members will continue.

Shame on you PFC for getting our hopes high!! Another one bites the dust…..but time will tell if the rest learn from others mistakes!!

And another thing ALways do your reseaech on choosing a club best suited for you! I did my home work on many clubs (including PFC) and Bravado for me was my fit! Check them out bravadojj.com

Nje tregim mjaft domethenes dhe prekes.

Ky blog qe po vazhdon gjate tregon se sa shume shqiptaro-kanadeze jetojne ne Toronto e rrethinat. A nuk do ishte me mire qe te gjithe neve te kontribuojme ne nje ceshtje me te rendesishme sic eshte ajo e: Familjeve te permbytura ne zonen e mbi Shkodres?

Shoqata shqiptaro-kanadeze po zhvillon nje fushate per te mbledhur nje fond ndihme qe do te dergohet nepermjet Kryqit Te Kuq Kanadez ne Shqiperi.

Per me teper lexoni: http://www.albcan.org

Respekte.

I showed it to a kid and this is what the kid said:

I think this story is not intelligent. Did this mother and son ever communicate with each other? Where was the father? Were they divorced? What was the mother trying to prove? What was her goal? Surprising her son by waiting till the end of life to finally tell him the eye truth? Why? What for? I thought people hide bad things, because they are either too ashamed to admit what they have done wrong, or they intend to keep it a secret, so that they keep doing it. What’s the purpose of hiding information about a good thing? Do people have to hide good things? Wasn’t the boy ever curious that there was something strange about his eyes – the color did not exactly match or the shape was not the same, or they felt and looked funny? And then, did the mother simply have a hole where one of her eyes should have been? That must have been a scary look… Didn’t she get a fake eye, or at least some dark glasses? Weird story… Who authored it anyway? Where did you get it?

I didn’t tell him that the mother was supposed to be “Mother Albania”, who gave me “the eye so I could see a whole new world” and that I was so ungrateful till the day she died (God forbid)!