How is Johns insistence on skill vetted by rank, as an excuse to discredit opinion...any better or different than a statement of skill vetted by a couple thousand people OF rank, as a response?
I don't care about any of it. But I'll be damned if detractors get to play the rank card, and I am chastized for using the same argument as a response.
Trolling?
John went on and on about having me banned for not answering about rank while never offering any himself. I never brought it up and I could care less about his. I know his rank, his seniors and his teacher.
Of course I understand that saying multitudes of martial artists don't get high level skills is challenging to hear, but I also... put my knowledge and skills in the line, month after month in open rooms around the world. That presents its own very different and credible argument, then sitting behind a screen and being "offended" and never once showing up to defend your own counter point.
I am thus, highly credible where it counts. And any reasonable person in the arts knows what I say about lists skills is true. Budo has failed, either by intent or poor transmission to teach these skills.
Again, instead of attacking what you don't understand, why not go to one.... Just one... of the many posts I've made over the years discussing movement and respond intelligently to it. Most of the time they sit there unanswered. THAT... is why I lost interest in responding in detail. I suspect it is also why I get senior guys here writing me in PM's, and sympathizing.
I'm not your enemy. I'm no one's enemy. I don't love what the arts have become, I love what they used to be.
P.S.
No one is a convert. I'm not doing anything for someone to convert... too. That is also why people stay in their arts. Moreover, what I teach isn't mine. Therefore, I have zero ego about it. It is in several arts, some more than others and just not openly taught. That's why this work is making friends and equal relationships across so many ranks and arts.