osu nangoushuujin!!
you talk about loyalty to you teacher and art= budo and spirit?
the vast majority of people who have dojo`s have no interest in their students as individuals so why should the student have loyalty to their sensei and art??
this is not just an idle rant from me,this is something that actually happend to me.......
in the early eighties some "household" names in the bkk decided they were big enough to go on their own, why==="dosh" no other reason that i know of.......so teachers first bit of disloyalty to the "art"
the students were told nothing would change, the syllabus would be the same, we would still enter the open knockdowns...and it was for the first year.
i was a 3rd kyu when this happend, so this was a very important time in my karate. i was in turmoil, i wanted to stay in the bkk because i recognised the excellence of the various teachers/courses etc but because all of my friends decide to stay with their sensei`s i did too[biggest mistake i ever made]
for the first year everything stayed the same, then a decision was made to change things slightly........
i was invited to attend the "squad" training which took part every weekend, i thought training between three and five times midweek was enough and i wanted the weekend for myself unless it was for the odd course or suchlike.
i heard no more until i drove a friend of mine to take part in our first open knockdown,i was injured but my friend was going to fight and i think he would have won.........on arrival the sensei concerned raced over to the pair of us and said," if you two can`t be bothered to attend the squad sessions every weekend you are not going to fight today and you will never fight in any other opens because you would be representing our style and futhermore their is no point either of you turning up at a grading."
loyalty hey!?
after another couple of years i got to a standard of knockdown, thanks to a guy i would like to name but think it`s better i don`t, where i could hold my own with anybody...i used to try and avoid the training sessions where i knew the above person would be teaching.
what i should have done is to have gone to my nearest bkk explained the situation and perhaps the injuries i eventually got would not have happend due to taking a different course and my career would have been a lot more successful.
so my loyalty to my teachers and art equalled" budo" no!!....absolute stupidity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this sort of thing would not happen know with the modern methods of treating people that gary for one advocates!!!!!
also again with regard to loyalty, nobody enquired after me and my injuries, you would have thought somebody who trained at least three times a week would be missed=no!!
i am all for loyalty, most of my friends i have known for numerous years but nanoushuujin please remember it is a two way thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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