In addition to claiming the phony credentials through Mr. Ismail, Lang was also presenting himself to students and other members of the Ithaca business public as a person who had grown up in Brazil with an American mother from Brooklyn. Lang told students he had first moved to the United States at age 19, already a BJJ brown belt, and that he had enlisted in the United States Army and served two tours of duty in Afghanistan with the 101st Infantry Division.<\/p>\n
Every one of these claims was quickly discredited, as Lang was unable to provide any evidence to show he had done any actual BJJ training in his life, aside from watching YouTube videos and then imitating what he had seen to other people who also lacked any real BJJ training. Lang was quickly found to be an American-born citizen who had been home schooled by his Christian fundamentalist mother in McGraw, NY. It was established that he in fact had no military background whatsoever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s a pretty long article, so I’m not going to C&P the whole thing. You should click over. Some of you will understand the martial arts stuff better than I do – it doesn’t mention Google-foo, so it all goes over my head. But it looks like he’s operating a MMA school in Cortland, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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