Clarifying Dustin Shaw''s situation re: 10th Planet

[Karim Graham]

2 diffrent people, 2 diffrent situations.

ah my bad, had that open in another tab and put the two things together by accident. sorry

[Ryan Drexler]

Life is all about loyalty

[Brian Beaumont AKA Thor]

ask your instructor about when they looked for affiliation and what eddie asks for and you can piece it together

Eddie is big on character and loyalty. When you affiliate you become part of a team, a family. Eddie watches our backs and we watch his and each others. Like any family you can't just claim the benefits and ignore your duties and responsibilities. IE Eddie is very clear up front about what he expects so the rules aren't just there when they suit you. Fights and falling outs do happen in families but we can always hope that if both sides truly valued the relationship that there will always be a chance for reconciliation. I'm sure just like with BQ this didn't just happen out of the blue. The details are between him and Eddie and not really any of our business.

[brent_littell]

its called "cannabalizing sales" in the franchise world. all franchisees in any organization will have a clause that states no other franchises will be allowed within a certain radius of that franchise; this is to make sure that you don't turn one successful franchise into two failing ones.

[zunk1]

business aside dustin is a good guy. Seeing everyone together at bryan's wake made me just want everyone to get along.

life is too short.

[Nathan "Máquina"]

business aside dustin is a good guy.

If you lie to your friends, you're no longer a good guy in my book - maybe you don't have the details, Zunk.

[zunk1]

If you lie to your friends, you're no longer a good guy in my book - maybe you don't have the details, Zunk.

i definitely don't. i thought it was more of a business related conflict which to me is in a whole different ballpark then a question of character.
we'll talk tonight.

[Ian Elliott]

I don't understand how you could learn an art and then try to be competition. This is play for dominance to gain alpha, that is the reason that instructors are so invested in loyalty. It's shame he did that, he can never take it back. In the mafia you'd get killed for that kind of shit.

[Brent Smith]

Why is this stickied..its a little rediculous this topic was even started. What happened happened and us breaking it apart isn't going to do any good. This is between Dustin and Eddie. Just a bunch of drama which is worthless to this system.

[Nathan "Máquina"]

Why is this stickied..its a little rediculous this topic was even started. What happened happened and us breaking it apart isn't going to do any good. This is between Dustin and Eddie. Just a bunch of drama which is worthless to this system.

The purpose of the topic is in the first sentence of my post.

My post was created after discussing the situation with Eddie.

Nothing personal, but I'm wondering why you are commenting when you don't live in LA, you don't have any firsthand knowledge of the situation and you don't have anything relevant to say here.