Osu!
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Originally Posted by shinobijesus
but thats just it! it DOESNT affect us at all let alone hurt us....
mcdojos already hand out belts like candy, some happen to only hand them out to those who can pay for them. its already happening. its happened to TKD for years now, among other styles.
things are just going to keep going on like they do. Real Dojo is going to be the best place to train and the people who dont know that probably dont belong there anyway. so the enrollment will stay low and Real Dojo will be poor but we dont do it for the money. and we dont do it JUST for the color of our belt so the people that actually WANT to pay for a rank or get to BB in 3 months doesnt belong at Real Dojo either.
everyone will end up where theyre meant to end up.
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I almost wish I had your sense of fatalism, ShinobiJesus, but I see it differently. The vast majority of people wouldn't know the difference between one school and another, but when they're tripping over miniature BB left and right, they think that this is the accepted standard.
The area I'm now in is all about the McDojo, and they are all identified as Karate, no matter the national origin. (Or lucky packet it was pulled from...)
With all the McDojo, the Real Dojo will be squeezed out, not least due to the cost of running a Dojo. Rent costs money. Electricity costs money. Transport to and from training costs money. Affiliation and other organization fees cost money.
Real Dojo may move to training in the park, or at a private residence. How does this enable the potential student with the right attitude to find it? Who will carry the torch for the next generation?
I know we're getting off topic a bit here, but I think that this is the big underlying question. Why not give out the grades for a song? Why should we have standards? If we answer those questions, we may also have answered their opposites.
Osu!