I've become convinced that a certain nontrivial percentage of the martial arts population actually want crap.
Real martial arts are taught in squalid garages. The semi-charlatans end up with huge populations of students who they teach in fitness centers that they own. This is a generalization of course but like so many generalizations it seems to hold true more often than one would like.
I've known so many excellent teachers and martial artists over the years who are basically picking shit with the chickens. I've helped two hardcore teachers pack up their old style cable weight machines and their bloodstained heavybags for the last time because they couldn't pay the rent. Meanwhile the guys who market "navy seal fighting" have advertisements on Drudge Report.
It's just discouraging. How hard would it be for these guys to sell something legitimate? It's not like there aren't legit systems that are undermarketed, that they could package up and sell.
But OH NO.
Real martial arts are taught in squalid garages. The semi-charlatans end up with huge populations of students who they teach in fitness centers that they own. This is a generalization of course but like so many generalizations it seems to hold true more often than one would like.
I've known so many excellent teachers and martial artists over the years who are basically picking shit with the chickens. I've helped two hardcore teachers pack up their old style cable weight machines and their bloodstained heavybags for the last time because they couldn't pay the rent. Meanwhile the guys who market "navy seal fighting" have advertisements on Drudge Report.
It's just discouraging. How hard would it be for these guys to sell something legitimate? It's not like there aren't legit systems that are undermarketed, that they could package up and sell.
But OH NO.
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