Re: Am I unreasonable?
I don't think you're being completely unreasonable. I think in order to call yourself "American Kenpo" you should at least have something of an actual American Kenpo curriculum as your base.
But, what can you do about it? The reality of MA in the U.S. is that there is no regulation so, as the saying goes, the buyer better beware.
I've met crackpots claiming to be masters of their own styles (one guy called his Kim-Chi and never knew why we kept laughing at him... fyi, that's basically the Korean word for cabbage. LOL) and I've gone to "Kenpo" schools that had become so commercialized that the material was drastically watered down from what we teach in our schools.
This topic hasn't really come up yet (that I know of) but I'm a supporter of state/fed legislation supporting the licensing and registration of Martial Art schools. I have several reasons for this, but perhaps this subject should be the topic of another thread.
"It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." – Charles A. Beard