Should I start giving out brown belts at seminars to instructors who won't compete and won't travel to Cali to test themselves against HQ purples, browns and blacks?
NO.
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Should I start giving out brown belts at seminars to instructors who won't compete and won't travel to Cali to test themselves against HQ purples, browns and blacks?
NO.
You should do what you think is right for the system. The tougher the standards the more determined the student. The standard of black belt is rising higher and higher every year. The guys training to get there one day (myself included) need to get tough and rise to meet that challenge.
Eddie if you don't make it tough then it's not worth it. A belt, regardless of color, is something not everyone should be able to posses. If they could then the belt would be truly worthless.
It's a tough climb but only those that reach the top get the glory.
fucking nice to hear that....see you later!Quote:
Originally Posted by Matthias Sieber
LOL. You know EVERYBODY is gonna say hell no. Well, everybody except whomever it was that went and wined about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eddie Bravo
personally, i dont think you should. i dont know, everything i wanted to say has been said. sacrifice and so on...Quote:
Originally Posted by Eddie Bravo
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Herzog
if they "WONT" i would say NO way, if they legitimately Cant, then yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eddie Bravo
if you feel someone deserves a certain color belt in your system then who am i to question how you give it to them. i know you would not promote someone to something they didnt deserve.
example- if someone lived in a 3rd world country and was barely putting food on the table, but was scraping pesos together to go to every seminar you put on in that country and training everyday. you test his skills and roll with him, you can give him what ever belt you want.
heck its hard for me (financially and scheduling) to drive four hours to get to hq, so i can understand the difficulty for others coming from other parts of the world.
the bottom line is, who you promote and how you promote is up to you, we should not question your judgement.
you should charge peapol to test and make some dough and make 10th planet a religion so you don't have to pay taxs.
Interesting thread, and even more interesting is that some of us believe that a belt should be awarded even if the skill level that should be attained to wear the belt isn't reached.
If one doesn't have the skill, knowledge level, etc to rank up, then they don't rank up. Please keep the standards the way they are Eddie. If one wants a quick black belt in a year of training, there are plenty of McDojos willing to belt you for money. If one wants to learn a "real deal" martial art, then you're in the right place training the 10th Planet system, just be prepared to put the time in and demonstrate *through competitions or seminars etc* that you ACTUALLY know and can perform the moves in the system. You can't really "cheat" your way to rank up in 10th Planet as most of us here can recognize skill, *even us lowly, but proud, white belts.*
Leave it just the way it is! If it's not broke, don't fix it....