Pallen Martial Arts

Pallen Martial Arts had a booth next to us at the Castro Valley Fall Festival. Last year we had problems with them conducting their activities and solicting new students in front of our booth, blocking customers from accessing our booth. Additionally, a number of them kept RUNNING through our booth also and were a nuisance.

This weekend, the students of Pallen Martial Arts were absolutely terrible and I recommend that parents do not allow their children to learn about Martial Arts from them. On Saturday, these students conducted business and did demonstrations outside their booth, approximately 2/3 ways across the aisle, disrupting traffic flow down the aisle. They solicited potential students, parents, etc., in front of our booth and blocked traffic flow to one-half of our area on a continual basis. Many times I asked them to move their activities over to their booth and they were disrupting my sales. They would just say 'oh, I'm sorry' and go about their business, soon thereafter resuming what they had been doing. The students of Pallen Martial Arts were also told by the promoters of the event to 'confine' their activities.

Pallen Martials Arts continued doing this on Sunday and they showed no RESPECT for anybody. They thought all this was a big joke. The promoters of the event came over and asked them once again to confine their activites, but soon after, they would be outside blocking traffic and doing their demonstrations, attracting crowds of 5-20 people at times. They spread over to my booth and customers could not see my booth nor could they get in. During the morning one of them had his big gigantic mutt sit down in front of our booth and they confronted customers once again. Other dogs came over and they exchange butt sniffs and occasionally they would be jumping around, scaring off potential customers. These Pallen Martial Arts Students were terrible and I am really wondering exactly what they are teaching these kids. I mean these kids do not listen to anybody, wise ass neighboring vendors and just plain out disrespectful toward adults. Do you want to expose your children to these monsters at Pallen Martial Arts. Heck, if one of my kids were there, I'd yank him/her out so quickly.

Castro Valley Fall Festival - Sep 13-14

CASTRO VALLEY, CA. I have been doing this event for approx 10 years now and this is the worst year ever. I've always enjoyed this event and we have a good location for our booth. The promoters, Festival Productions, once again did a great job with the show and I commend them once again, as they (Jeff & Jerry Cambra) put on another great event.

However, you can lead the horse to the water and stick his nose in it, but you can not make him drink it. And that's the way the story goes. People just not buying. I guess some vendors did okay, but a huge majority had big drops in sales, including us. We just have to ride this decline in the economy out.

We had huge problems with the booth next to us which was the Pellen Martial Arts School, located in Castro Valley. They had some of their 'students' there solicting membership. They absolutely horrendous and you can read about them in another post that I have in this blog.