
Originally Posted by
Dylan Ehrnreiter
The biggest problem I've seen is the elders in a given system not wanting to it they don't have all the answers, or that the answers they do have might not be the best ones. That mentality is reflected in their students.
100%... At my old school we were fed the anti 10th planet, anti any other grappling style or any other Bjj team propaganda from our instructor...he got it from his coach who got it from H/Q in Rio! Part of it is insecurity, a large part is business..people think wrongly imo if they put down the competition they will retain students. Unfortunately some people are susceptible to this and like to belong to something and become closed minded....especially the younger guys and girls!