Rabbit wrote:Come on now .....
Dan repeatedly tells everyone they are crap and don't know what they are talking about regardless of grade, teacher, lineage, practice time, while being unforthcoming about who taught him and refuses to provide any clips of himself in action
Oooh I wonder why people find him irritating?
I agree with everything you've said with the following caveats:
a) Dan tells most everyone that their skill is crap and that they don't know what they're talking about internal training. I think that the underlined makes a world of difference, but most people at least some of the time (myself included) hear criticizing of skill as judgment of self worth. A lot of people respond from the position that these two things are one and the same.
b) I think Dan very well explained in his answers to Ah Louis and me that he doesn't regard lineage and teachers because he is not commenting them. He is commenting people he's talking to. However, that said, as jaime and finny and I already stated, you can find the name of his daito ryu teacher, and all the arts he had trained in a matter of minutes on the internet. A lot of that info exist in older threads on rumsoakedfist. It's been stated, restated and discussed numerous times all over the net. It really is easy to find out. The question then is, if one is really interested to find out. And whether it adds anything to the discussion. I think that it doesn't.
c) Regarding vids, he has made two short clips available. One was posted twice here. Both times the only comments were jokes. Not a single word on actual skill or lack thereof, displayed in the clip.
d) As I said upthread, Dan is blunt and opinionated. These traits have always caused animosity in people. It is not a "proper way of communication" in our culture. We can either look past that and try to find out what people really mean beyond how they say it, or not.