Bao wrote:And I don't get why you don't... if you claim that your own view to be more correct than common teachers or that you are a better teacher than many other teachers, you should first back it up someway and not expect people to buy your book just because you say you are...if you want to be accepted as a scholar or an academic, you need to first behave as one.
I also don't get why you, Appledog, don't get it.
Mr. Bluestein's first language is not English. Even those whose first language is English benefit from having their work edited for style, content, continuity, grammar, etc. In his early articles, I had respectfully suggested that his work was in need of editing. He shrugged it off as being unnecessary. As a result, in my opinion, his published work is "unrefined".
Mr. Bluetein started teaching, if memory serves me right, less than five years ago. At that time, he wrote here, relatively extensively, of his trials, tribulations and experiences. At that time, at least some here commented on his teaching methods and philosophies being too invasive and over-bearing, some stating that they would never study with a teacher who made the personal demands that he makes of his students. Now, a few years later, he writes a book about how to teach. He makes grand claims about his methods and guarantees his book will provide new, unique, valuable pedagogic methods. That tugs at credibility.
Parts of his first book were discussed here. Some had criticism of its content and methodology. In particular, some took exception to his attempts to categorize each Chinese martial art, many he had never studied. Some raised the issue of how qualified he was to attempt such a categorization without ever knowing or studying those arts. Some felt it arrogant for him to assume he had sufficient knowledge and experience of these arts to put forward, for public consumption, such a broad categorization. (I view that as a disservice to the arts he's attempting to write about, and to less knowledgeable readers who might be mislead by the poor categorizations.)
Then there is the Wikipedia entry that Mr. Bluestein insisted on creating for a now-deceased teacher he never studied with. The teacher's students stated that their teacher was a private man and did not believe that their teacher would want their teacher's life publicly on display. Mr. Bluestein described the situation here and asked for advice on how to prevent the teacher's students from repeatedly changing his entries to the Wikipedia entry. Each time he changed the entry, one of the students would change it back. At the time, I asked Mr. Bluestein why he felt it necessary, against the wishes of the teacher's students, to create that entry about a teacher he had never studied with. He replied, in essence, he was doing the martial arts world a service by creating the entry. When I asked why he felt it necessary to keep changing the entry back to what he wanted, rather than the student who kept changing it back, he stated it, essentially, had to be his way.
If you chose to see it, there is an establishing pattern here, a pattern that does not provide academic credibility to this author. It should then come as little surprise that his work isn't warmly accepted by some here.
It isn't my intention to insult Mr. Bluestein, only to explain why I don't regard very highly his "academic" contributions as an author. I'd hope that he consider that opinion, as well as that of others here, to improve his research and writing. In the past, he has ignored it. That doesn't make me want to rush right out and buy his latest contribution.