Are all martial arts equal?
NO!!
Am I a self-righteous snob?
I may come across like that sometimes.
Some martial arts or schools are started by 1st degree black belts or low-level instructors for a variety of reasons. Mostly greed. Then their students get their black belt and start teaching students. So what you eventually have is a student learning “how to fight” from a low-level instructor of a low-level instructor. Hmmm……
Can you believe that in some cases this process was started in the 60s and 70s with some folks and now we have multiple generations of low-level students doing their own thing and running around with apparent high-level rank in and they have no idea of the levels of their own ignorance.
Did you realize that ANYONE can buy a black belt out of a magazine, create a rank certificate on the computer, and open a martial arts school? Do the suckers that sign up with them really understand what is going on? Unfortunately, no. That is why the martial arts have a bad reputation as being only for kids or stuff for movies.
NO!!
Am I a self-righteous snob?
I may come across like that sometimes.
Some martial arts or schools are started by 1st degree black belts or low-level instructors for a variety of reasons. Mostly greed. Then their students get their black belt and start teaching students. So what you eventually have is a student learning “how to fight” from a low-level instructor of a low-level instructor. Hmmm……
Can you believe that in some cases this process was started in the 60s and 70s with some folks and now we have multiple generations of low-level students doing their own thing and running around with apparent high-level rank in and they have no idea of the levels of their own ignorance.
Did you realize that ANYONE can buy a black belt out of a magazine, create a rank certificate on the computer, and open a martial arts school? Do the suckers that sign up with them really understand what is going on? Unfortunately, no. That is why the martial arts have a bad reputation as being only for kids or stuff for movies.
3 comments:
This is so true! I think everyone has seen more than their fair share of loser McDojo types.
Sometimes you have to call a spade a spade.
That picture says it all!!! LOL
Ohh! And to work with some of these people. They are usually rude, have no dojo etiquette, and to make matters worse, can't punch their way out of the proverbial paper bag. Blah! They can take their silly "musical forms," their XMA, their loud, crude ways and...and...umm...oh well, it's like fighting Wall Mart. It's sucks, but people go there anyway. Weird.
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