I was also a student their and I thought the school was fine until I moved and had to shop around for a new school. Wow, it was eye opening to realize what real karate schools were like. Kevin Sullivans school was the first karate school i went to. I have to agree with what some of the other people said on here. He was terrible to the parents of the kids, he was always flirting with the mother's and telling his conquest stories to the male students. I saw him verbally threaten parents and challenge them to fight him. I saw him kick kids out of the school if the parents disagreed with how he treated them or their kids. He was very, very into money and I know now that most of the things he did was only so he could line his pockets. He made me sign a multi year contract that I still had to pay even after I moved. I just assumed that's how these schools worked.
When I moved and started going to a new school I saw what real instructors were like; polite, caring and had a real curriculum. They made time for the parents, answered all my questions, never made fun of me for asking a basic question. I actually had to earn my belt promotions and they told me if I wasn't ready. At Sullivan's we had belt promotions whenever Kevin needed cash. He charged so much money for the tests and everybody always tested and passed. I always thought it was odd that we had extra belt promotions around holidays but I was so naive I didn't realize that he was doing it to make money and not because I earned it.
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