As I have mentioned before, unless I'm doing a private lesson, I get paid nothing.
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As I have mentioned before, unless I'm doing a private lesson, I get paid nothing.
Well you should do more private lessons then, eh?
I don't believe in private lessons and I tell all would be clients the same. I've never had one ever. The path to the black belt is long but simple: Show up for class and do the work.
The average private lessoner either wants to brag to others about everything he's doing to further his education (usually LOL) or learn my moves to kick my ass (total LOL).
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't 100% of the UFC fighters get "private" lessons?
Just thinking if I wanted to be the best, I would hire the best to focus on training me.
Betcha St. Pierre could teach you all his moves and still kick your ass, FYI.
Pretty much wrong. You need training partners. It's not as easy as "I will have Marcelo Garcia for jiu jitsu, Freddie Roach for boxing and Dan Gable for wrestling". You're learning techniques from those people not practicing said techniques on them. Do professional fighters spend one on one time with the greats? Yes. But they train with a team.
To bring that back full circle, what do you think a whitebelt is doing when he pays me $40 an hour for privates? That's right, the same basic shit he'd be doing in class. And if there's a question that gets outside of the basics, chances are it can be answered in five minutes at no charge during open mat (six days a week).
To each their own, I would rather get some quality time in my busy day to actually learn something then to spend 15 minutes of my 1 hour class watching you show a 10 year old how to properly tie his belt.
You know nothing about how this works and I expected that exact reply several posts ago.
Yes because you clearly know about how my class works here in Ohio.
Shut up, you're being retarded.
It doesn't work at all if you don't show up.
While I'm not sure it's possible to miss more points than biff did in our little exchange here, he did manage to turn his confusion in to one intelligent statement:
And because he knows so much this explanation is not for his benefit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Othello Harrington
I didn't say that because I'm a dickhole who tries to pretend like he has secret knowledge that needs to be guarded from others lest they learn my secrets and kick my ass thereby bringing shame upon my academy as well as my family for generations to come.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaCrappa
The "total LOL" is because it is really fucking arrogant for someone who has spent six months doing this to think that he'll get one magic bullet and then snipe me directly in the ass with it. To ask "what was that crazy sweep you did last time we rolled" isn't a problem. I'll show it to anybody that wants to know. Over and over again. Thinking that that one move that I did that one time is what makes it so that the person asking the question can't kick my ass is just plain silly. What about all the blood, sweat and tears that led me to the point of performing that sweep on that day?
It is a widely accepted notion that the only way to transcend yourself in jiu jitsu is to make sure that as many people around you know everything that you know. As an experienced practitioner I can say without a doubt that it is no fun rolling with people who don't know what they're doing. The ego triumph got old long ago and now all I seek is a challenge. I can either share and increase my potential to be challenged or I can be stingy and cling to the petty ego triumph. It is because of this attitude that I am a successful leader at our school.
So yes. GSP could teach me everything he knows and still kick my ass. Never met the guy but I'd still call it a fact.