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I couldn't even understand him. He was saying stuff about tatoos and dreadlocks won't ever get a black belt in his system. I continue to keep an open stance on image.
I found the comments incredible. You could argue that being a Rastafarian with uncut hair is the most natural thing there is. You aren't altering anything on your body. You're letting its hair grow as it naturally would. How is that "wrong"? How does that somehow prohibit you from earning a black belt? Such nonsense...
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You can definitely tell he is old fashion and that is good and all, but he is straight up being prejudice. Having tattoos, dreadlocks, occasional being late to class because of you schedule, I am sorry but people do work, and that work allows them to have money for dues/tuition to pay for the classes/sessions under you. You can't represent him because your a Rastafarian with tattoos is prejudice and boarder line racist. To be in the perfect image of GJJ you must be clean cut, clean, nails, clean gi, no tattoos, and no ethnic lifestyles! So if I go to a Gracie School with corn rolls I'll be kicked out or not even promoted, they'll just take my money and not advance because I do not fit their set standard image. Isn't Jiu Jitsu supposed to be about your skill and personality. Not your tattoos and Rastafarian hair! Just lost respect for the Gracie family, not as a whole, but for them to allow this, this is supposed to be one of their foremost instructor and he is saying I will not promote you because, "I don't like they way you look."
Last I heard marking one's flesh was prohibited for Rastas, Jews as well. Just sayin'.
Some may say that not working on making yourself more easily understandable for your students sake may be disrespectful.
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Clean yo tattoo.
yo he should make a comedy series and do jiu jitsu related rants about this kind of stuff, i was laughing, my ass off very strict old school. he was even saying "Hastafarians" lol too good with the big pic of the Grandmaster in the back should be called "What Relson Hates" lol i could see it now
There are a good number of brazilian fighters with tats. I know Babalu runs a Gracie barra school and he's as tatted as can be. But that's Gracie Barra, and not Gracie... Hmmm. Oh well in the end jits is jits regardless of image. The camaraderie is what lasts. That's the bigger picture.
I can relate with what Relson just said. He didn't say drop dead, he was talking about to be an Instructor, not simply a practitioner.
I don't think he took a blatant shot at cannabis use as we know it. I think he was describing a full blown drug addict, even if he used the word rastafarians.
I interpret his message as: Images that people associate with aggression (tattoos on face) must not be associated with the Gracie image for their business to survive as they know it.
Just to be clear, my post title "Relson Gracie to Rastafarians: Drop Dead" is a play on an old NY Daily News headline: "(President) Ford to City: Drop Dead". The president hadn't said the words, "Drop Dead", but for all practical purposes he was saying Drop Dead to NYC. I tried to link to the NY Daily News headline in my post, but the photo doesn't show in the link. If you google, "Ford to City: Drop Dead" and you'll see the headline.Quote:
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So basically I was making a joke, even though I think what he says really sucks.
I see what you did there Ric.Quote:
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Got ya.Quote:
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