Mendor Typhoons, a Matukai, possessed two students around c.580 BBY. Following the unsuccessful endeavor by the Jedi Order to reintegrate the Zeison Sha, Bodo Baas contacted him. Baas learned of Mendor and his apprentices' victory over a band of pirates close to Ord Radama, achieved without assistance.
Although possessing a strong sense of humor, he considered the Jedi's methodology for instructing students in the Force to be both ineffective and exclusive, and was confident in his ability to improve upon it.