Do you wish you were 18 again?
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Do you wish you were 18 again?
They would promote their program and instructors more, if they had a legitimate program or lelgitimate teachers. I suspect a close investigation will find a bunch of kids teaching who have about five lessons more than the trainees. (an old Fred Villari trick) The program is probably a mix of everything possible that can be picked up in two hour seminars.
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Do you wish you were 18 again?
Well, having been 18 not that long ago, I can safely say that if I was, I still would have thought this was crazy.
I actually saw this add in the latest issue of Black Belt (I was flipping through it at the supermarket! Don't start with me
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There are, as david points out, some active and successful Uchi-deshi programs out there, mostly in the Aikido world (at least, that's where all the one's I'm familiar with are). At one point, I even considered applying for one under Toyada Sensei.
But, having spoken with one of Toyada's deshi's on one occasion, it doesn't sound like he, or anyone else, is teaching like these people (if, indeed, they are teaching...which I would question).
I guess I just cannot trust a program that spends that much time telling you "you must having nothing to lose".
There's more to life than kicking butt and taking names...way more.
Might this kind of training be right for some? I guess so. But if you want to hold a part-time job and train a lot, I hardly see the need to go to this place to do it.
I guess I'm just a skeptic.
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I actually saw this add in the latest issue of Black Belt (I was flipping through it at the supermarket! Don't start with me
)There are, as david points out, some active and successful Uchi-deshi programs out there, mostly in the Aikido world (at least, that's where all the one's I'm familiar with are). At one point, I even considered applying for one under Toyada Sensei.
But, having spoken with one of Toyada's deshi's on one occasion, it doesn't sound like he, or anyone else, is teaching like these people (if, indeed, they are teaching...which I would question).
I guess I just cannot trust a program that spends that much time telling you "you must having nothing to lose".
There's more to life than kicking butt and taking names...way more.
Might this kind of training be right for some? I guess so. But if you want to hold a part-time job and train a lot, I hardly see the need to go to this place to do it.
I guess I'm just a skeptic.
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Jake Steinmann
PDR Team
www.tonyblauer.com
Tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
that here obident to their laws we lie
- Inscription at the site of Thermopylae
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Ted Dinwiddie
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Do you wish you were 18 again?
To my mind, "real" MA training has to do with incorporating it into your "real" life. Isolated brainwashing or escape from the rigors of being a functioning member of society does not, in any way, impress me. Those who progress with their lives as they progress with their chosen art are the true hard core. Tales of old Uchinanchu where they trained at night and worked all day (no office puke jobs either) impress me.
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