The lesson to be learned from this situation is that there's no way you should open a school if your goals are to travel to different countries to learn and compete. If you cannot dedicate your life to it, don't open a school.
Also, even as a purple belt, I feel that charging people black belt prices for my teachings isn't right. In fact, I haven't been paid to teach Jiu Jitsu for over a year now. The last seminar I taught was in Holland, and I did that at just enough to cover my expenses. There is no place for greed in this art, it makes me sad to see this happen because Matthias was a cool guy.
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