Bester
<font color=blue><B>Grand UberSoke, Sith-jutsu Ryu
What is wrong with the martial arts today?
I was originally going to post this on another thread, but it was understandably locked before I finished.
I’ve been here, and elsewhere now for a while. Joined this site about 2 years ago.
It’s been a wild, fun ride. I’ve learned a lot, shared a lot, and pissed off a few. Such is life.
During my time here, and roaming the wasteland we call the Internet. Well, those of us who aren’t brainwashed by marketing call it that. Others call it AOL, or “that damn machine”. But, I digress.
During this time, I have learned a lot about my fellow board members. Most of them are wonderful, warm, sharing individuals.
A few, are pointedly, major ********Edited to conform to MT's Profanity Rules. There are the arrogant, know it all, experts, whose sole gratification in life seems to be to make some 15 year old kid cry because they didn’t know that there is a huge difference between Japan and Okinawa, or China and Taiwan, or such stuff that one usually learns as they get older. These same “experts” who are first on the scene to bust someone as a fraud, who lambaste someone for deciding to enjoy themselves on a forum and use a handle, or put something they think is cute in their signature. These people who haven’t got the sense of humor or personal development of a turn.
Then, there are the frauds themselves. These ego stoking, rank inflating, often times overweight and out of shape “grandmasters” and “sokes” and such other bunk. A group of piss poor practitioners, who got some other “soapy” to sign off on his OfficeMax certificate, so everyone can join the “elite”. We have more 10th dans than white belts at times it seems.
Then, there are the politicians, the game players, the prim donnas. This group, and their zombies go around, pissing on each other, trying to make everyone see how “great” they are, and how “awful” the other guy is. This is of course easier than actually doing something like, learning a quality art, teaching it to quality students, and leading by being quality people. No, it’s turd tossing for this bunch of turd burglars.
We have the guys teaching “black belt in 12 weeks guaranteed” crap, promoting people based on who came in early and stayed late to clean the cheese dip stains from their “soke-masters” soiled black lace thong, or who slipped them an extra $50 just to be “advanced”.
Gone it seems are those outdated concepts like Honor, Integrity, and Courtesy. Forgotten are such obsolete concepts such as Leading by Example, Building Others Up, and Being Humble.
No, we have ethically bankrupt “leaders”, and their equally as bankrupt followers waging mass wars on the internet, tearing each other down, hiding behind handles, or even right out in the open. Lawsuits and character defamation has replaced honest competition. Why put out a better product when it’s easier to post bull-**** on a message board? Why take the 5+ years to learn and expand your mind, body and soul, when you can buy rank, or even just make it up and buy some recognition?
There is little Honor left in the arts today. These small, petty people have done their best, their self-serving, petty best, to kill it off. All so they can feel good about themselves, lying there in the slime that is their festering pus-hole existence.
I honestly don’t understand them. I was raised to be honest, and while I have a lot of faults, I have always stayed true to that one. My goal’s, my desires, my dreams around these arts has always been to surround myself with good, honest and honorable people. People who will walk a ways with me on my personal journey of self discovery through the arts. People who will enrich, and be enriched by our interaction.
I have met many people through this site. I have found few other sites to have the quality of members that this one does. You are an imperfect bunch, but that is your strength I think. I have enjoyed this time here, and with a few exceptions, based on my feedback, so have you.
It is those few exceptions that I don’t understand. I don’t understand why they are they way they are, cowards, degenerates, and no talent pretenders. Why do they have to tear others down? Why do they have to pollute otherwise excellent resources with their small minded, petty garbage?
I always believed, and still do, that quality martial training will build good character, and enlightenment. My only conclusion is that they haven’t yet been exposed to quality training, or else are simply too primitive to ever truly “get it”.
Too bad. Some of them might actually be decent people otherwise.
The rest, well, they are just dickheads. Always will be it seems.
I'll focus on my training, continuing to improve my body, expand my mind and nurish my soul, despite the thrashings of out of shape, mindless, soulless cretins such as them.
Strength and Honor.
I was originally going to post this on another thread, but it was understandably locked before I finished.
I’ve been here, and elsewhere now for a while. Joined this site about 2 years ago.
It’s been a wild, fun ride. I’ve learned a lot, shared a lot, and pissed off a few. Such is life.
During my time here, and roaming the wasteland we call the Internet. Well, those of us who aren’t brainwashed by marketing call it that. Others call it AOL, or “that damn machine”. But, I digress.
During this time, I have learned a lot about my fellow board members. Most of them are wonderful, warm, sharing individuals.
A few, are pointedly, major ********Edited to conform to MT's Profanity Rules. There are the arrogant, know it all, experts, whose sole gratification in life seems to be to make some 15 year old kid cry because they didn’t know that there is a huge difference between Japan and Okinawa, or China and Taiwan, or such stuff that one usually learns as they get older. These same “experts” who are first on the scene to bust someone as a fraud, who lambaste someone for deciding to enjoy themselves on a forum and use a handle, or put something they think is cute in their signature. These people who haven’t got the sense of humor or personal development of a turn.
Then, there are the frauds themselves. These ego stoking, rank inflating, often times overweight and out of shape “grandmasters” and “sokes” and such other bunk. A group of piss poor practitioners, who got some other “soapy” to sign off on his OfficeMax certificate, so everyone can join the “elite”. We have more 10th dans than white belts at times it seems.
Then, there are the politicians, the game players, the prim donnas. This group, and their zombies go around, pissing on each other, trying to make everyone see how “great” they are, and how “awful” the other guy is. This is of course easier than actually doing something like, learning a quality art, teaching it to quality students, and leading by being quality people. No, it’s turd tossing for this bunch of turd burglars.
We have the guys teaching “black belt in 12 weeks guaranteed” crap, promoting people based on who came in early and stayed late to clean the cheese dip stains from their “soke-masters” soiled black lace thong, or who slipped them an extra $50 just to be “advanced”.
Gone it seems are those outdated concepts like Honor, Integrity, and Courtesy. Forgotten are such obsolete concepts such as Leading by Example, Building Others Up, and Being Humble.
No, we have ethically bankrupt “leaders”, and their equally as bankrupt followers waging mass wars on the internet, tearing each other down, hiding behind handles, or even right out in the open. Lawsuits and character defamation has replaced honest competition. Why put out a better product when it’s easier to post bull-**** on a message board? Why take the 5+ years to learn and expand your mind, body and soul, when you can buy rank, or even just make it up and buy some recognition?
There is little Honor left in the arts today. These small, petty people have done their best, their self-serving, petty best, to kill it off. All so they can feel good about themselves, lying there in the slime that is their festering pus-hole existence.
I honestly don’t understand them. I was raised to be honest, and while I have a lot of faults, I have always stayed true to that one. My goal’s, my desires, my dreams around these arts has always been to surround myself with good, honest and honorable people. People who will walk a ways with me on my personal journey of self discovery through the arts. People who will enrich, and be enriched by our interaction.
I have met many people through this site. I have found few other sites to have the quality of members that this one does. You are an imperfect bunch, but that is your strength I think. I have enjoyed this time here, and with a few exceptions, based on my feedback, so have you.
It is those few exceptions that I don’t understand. I don’t understand why they are they way they are, cowards, degenerates, and no talent pretenders. Why do they have to tear others down? Why do they have to pollute otherwise excellent resources with their small minded, petty garbage?
I always believed, and still do, that quality martial training will build good character, and enlightenment. My only conclusion is that they haven’t yet been exposed to quality training, or else are simply too primitive to ever truly “get it”.
Too bad. Some of them might actually be decent people otherwise.
The rest, well, they are just dickheads. Always will be it seems.
I'll focus on my training, continuing to improve my body, expand my mind and nurish my soul, despite the thrashings of out of shape, mindless, soulless cretins such as them.
Strength and Honor.
