| I was speaking with a training partner the other day | | | | about Simco. It turns out that McLaughlin trained with |
| and the subject of Gene Simco's books came up. He | | | | Simco for several years and sung praises about him, |
| stated that he had seen them and actually thought | | | | that is until he was kicked out of Simco's school, then |
| the layout and content was very good, but then said | | | | all of the sudden, Simco is "no good". The same can |
| that he had heard some rumors about him online. I | | | | be said about Dave "Silverfox" Karchmer who seems |
| too, have been reading rumors and have seen a few | | | | to be a middle aged man that spends way too much |
| things here and there from questioning his legitimacy | | | | time on internet forums talking about Gene Simco. |
| to an arrest for abusing a student. So I decided to | | | | The list of people perpetuating rumors is mainly |
| do my own research and came up with some | | | | comprised of people like Justin Garcia and Rob Kahn, |
| interesting finds. When you look at the source of the | | | | who have recruited Ex-Simco-Students and turned |
| rumors, they have all started on internet forums, not | | | | them into Keyboard-Warrior-Zombies in the Smear |
| in the "real world". When you look at the people | | | | campaign against Gene Simco. Every single time I |
| propelling the rumors, you will see that there are a | | | | looked into these people who had so many bad |
| few of the usual suspects who keep either starting | | | | things to say, you could trace their comments to |
| new stories or chiming in to make a nasty comment, | | | | obvious motive or jealousy. I have even found off |
| so I started researching them and what I found was | | | | topic comments made about Simco's Mercedes Benz |
| interesting to say the least. More than half of the | | | | and beauty queen wife. The sad part is that some of |
| people making bad comments about him were ex | | | | the websites are irresponsible enough to let all this |
| students who Simco had asked to leave the school | | | | nonsense go on and even worse, some have Gene |
| or had left with the people that were asked to leave | | | | Simco wiki pages that obviously paint a negative |
| and the rest were either competitors or their | | | | picture of him. |
| associates. | | | | In my research, I did find that much of this has |
| When Phil Migliarese posted details about Allegations | | | | already been addressed by Simco or people working |
| made against Simco, I took a look at Phil's pages and | | | | for him at sites like GeneSimco(dot)org and a few |
| noticed he was aspiring to develop an online training | | | | blogs out there. I recently enrolled in his online training |
| program ... just like Gene Simco. He was also in the | | | | program and have found that he is very enthusiastic |
| same Jiu-jitsu association as Steve Kardian (a long | | | | about his work, very polite and a great Jiu-jitsu |
| time Simco-Hater) and Mike Wacker, both who own | | | | instructor ... heck, how can he be a bad teacher and |
| schools near Simco's Academy. Brian McLaughlin | | | | produce as many champions as he has - in fact many |
| seems to conveniently chime in with a nasty | | | | of the people trash talking him learned a great deal |
| comment every time someone speaks good or bad | | | | of what they know from him. |