Flying Crane
Sr. Grandmaster
and I can certainly understand the desire to defend it. After all, it is something they have put a lot of time and effort into, and there is this concept that this stuff takes a lot of work and a long time in order to get good at it, so maybe they figure they are still in that process. Yes, that is true. It's not comfortable to have someone point out what might be kind of stupid about it. So people jump to its defense, and that's ok, I get it. But people do need to be able to step back and let the BS alarm go off, and take notice and don't ignore the alarm.Exactly. Some stuff just isn't that good, and neither are some arts. There are too many people who want to make excuses for both.
Some things are bad ideas and some of those bad ideas do manage to find a place in some of what we do. I'm sure we could all find something in our own systems that we feel pretty "iffy" about.