EmperorOfKentukki
Green Belt
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When you say, "teaching martial arts does not qualify you to be called a Professor," that is your personal opinion and should be stated as such.
Actually....it is an opinion shared by all of the 'accredited' academic world.
Would you let 'Dr. Dre' perform surgery on you?
What tribe? If you have 'Chief Masters'....do you have 'Chief Petty Masters'? In Asia, name are listed in reverse order....so if you are overseas do you get mistaken for a 'Master Chef'?Chief Master
Do you not see how silly some of these titles can seem to others?
What I want to know is what does his wife call him. Or his kids. Or his mother. Or his employer? Or the cop who wrote him a ticket?What does a 9th Dan call himself?
The titles we are seeing used by martial artist today are 'smoke and mirror' and 'spin' marketing tactics used to create an 'illusion' of authenticity and respectability that, sadly, is often not backed up nor borne out in the education, experience and practice of the individual. Take the usage, 'Supreme Grandmaster'. This is an oxymoron. The worst example of this exhaltatory title manufacture I've encountered was 'Eternal Supreme Grandmaster'. It is this weakness of ethics in the field that has led us to having people add up their various Dan ranks to achieve one that is just plain rediculous. Example in point, a Louisville TKD instructor that advertised himself as a 17th Degree Black Belt.
And that is why I became the Emperor of Kentukki. I don't need any other title. Titles are what I give away to others. LOL!
The Emperor