I'm sorry, I'm all out of medals to hand out to the people who are bitching about how hard they had it when they were doing 10th Planet techniques way back when. You and everyone else, buddy. Except some people are actually ranked under the system, have gone through their paces, and are brown and black belts now.
I don't think the question was ever, "What is the origin of the electric chair," "Who has the legal rights to leg drags, arm drags, X-guard," etc. because that can be traced back to forever ago. He was talking about being available for "Seminars to teach the 10th Planet System." Oh oops, he never said "10th Planet Seminar"! But it sounds like the exact same thing to me. John Mejia had it right when he told this guy that if he was really genuine about spreading knowledge about the system, he should do it for free (like the Hotboxes do). He is talking about using the now-suddenly-popular 10th Planet name to turn a profit, no matter how small he claims it is.
I'm not sure who originally brought up the subject of legality, but I doubt we have the resources (nor the time) to pursue anything even if we wanted to. And there's no way to track every 10th Planet carbon copy wannabe out there.
We can only hope that students are smart enough to at least do their research. If I wanted to learn more about Marcelo Garcia's techniques, I'd consider going to seminars held by Gianni Grippo before some random dude who has "studied the technique from day one" and has "driven hours to go to the seminars." Studying and going to seminars is a little bit different than having learned the system directly from the source, competed using it, and built schools based on it.
I love how Brandon and a couple of other people straight up advertised the Midwest Training Camp on the now 300+ comment thread, though. Not sure if you guys meant to hijack it but....
I don't think the question was ever, "What is the origin of the electric chair," "Who has the legal rights to leg drags, arm drags, X-guard," etc. because that can be traced back to forever ago. He was talking about being available for "Seminars to teach the 10th Planet System." Oh oops, he never said "10th Planet Seminar"! But it sounds like the exact same thing to me. John Mejia had it right when he told this guy that if he was really genuine about spreading knowledge about the system, he should do it for free (like the Hotboxes do). He is talking about using the now-suddenly-popular 10th Planet name to turn a profit, no matter how small he claims it is.
I'm not sure who originally brought up the subject of legality, but I doubt we have the resources (nor the time) to pursue anything even if we wanted to. And there's no way to track every 10th Planet carbon copy wannabe out there.
We can only hope that students are smart enough to at least do their research. If I wanted to learn more about Marcelo Garcia's techniques, I'd consider going to seminars held by Gianni Grippo before some random dude who has "studied the technique from day one" and has "driven hours to go to the seminars." Studying and going to seminars is a little bit different than having learned the system directly from the source, competed using it, and built schools based on it.
I love how Brandon and a couple of other people straight up advertised the Midwest Training Camp on the now 300+ comment thread, though. Not sure if you guys meant to hijack it but....
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