Citius said:
"ANYBODY who gives rank from distance by video, even if you have to show up in person a few times a year, it is only about the money"
If you're going to quote me, do it properly.
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ANYBODY who gives rank from distance by video, even if you have to show up in person a few times a year, it is only about the money
WHOMEVER it is. I don't want to hear that crap about performing a service for "students who don't have a school nearby." That's absolutely laughable.
I'll say it again, "If you can get "it" by video, "it" ain't very much.
That is a very slanderous statement.
Apparently in addition to other deficiencies, you also are not a legal scholar.
You must think you are the wisest person on Earth to know the hearts and minds of every person who has charged a fee for martial arts instruction.
Charging a fee for martial arts instruction and giving belts by video are two different things.
Unless of course your madness proposes that in-person instruction for a fee is the act of a noble saint and distance learning by the same individual makes him/her a greedy scounderal.
You may consider me mad, but at least I had a credible teacher and waited until I was long past brown belt before I began to develop an opinion about things I knew nothing about.
Your statement also persecutes most of the finest teachers this generation has to offer.
I guess that depends on your definition of "... finest teachers ..."
I fear your years of training and dedication in your art may have been in vain to produce such a intolerant mind.
Interesting, but at least I have done the "... years of training and dedication ..." part you have yet to experience. Perhaps, all things considered, and the time I have put in, maybe you are the one with the intolerable mind. Either way you are entitled to your opinion just like any other brown belt in a style few people have heard of.
But you are right about one thing. I have no tolerance or political correctness answers for those who would be self-proclaimed geniuses, or those who would follow those who bastardize arts and become defacto "founders." Some individuals may indeed have merit in what they do and teach, and when I see it I will defintely acknowledge it. But don't become upset that you cannot sell me on the validity of what you have chosen to follow and the worth of your brown belt. I am not even remotely impressed, nor should you care whether I am or not.
What you have is the weight of your opinion, and I am saddled by mine. Some may find validity in yours, some mine. The difference is, I don't care what you think, nor am I impressed by your homemade brown belt. Every John Dow with the ability to fog a mirror has his own style. Most suck™. And although a couple may have merit, I'll play the odds and say they suck™ until proven different. After all, somebody has to stand up and tell the truth, even if it hurts some brown belts feelings because he took it personally. Me? if I thought what I was doing was the shizznit, I wouldn't give it a second thought. Hell, you may be right, but the odds say, "not a chance." And if you keep messing with me, I'll sic the Golden Dragon on you, and then you'll really be sorry.
of course that don't make you right either. But then again he has promoted a lot more black belts than me .....
