Comments on: 5th Kyu Shihans

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:49:40 +0000

Dichotomy, while I appreciate your spirited defense, let’s remember to be courteous to our guests.

Since this conversation has appeared to run its course, I’m closing comments.

Again, thank you for all the replies. It was an interesting experience for me.

By: The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:45:39 +0000

*throws batarangs*

By: MM

MM — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:42:49 +0000

ooooooooooo… i gonna punch you in da nose twice… then in da mowf! wyte in da mowf!!! ooooooo..

By: grassHopper

grassHopper — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:01:16 +0000

…and i’m gonna sit back and laugh as i watch you two fight to the death! XD

By: The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:38:22 +0000

I’m gonna punch you in the nose for punching me in the nose…

By: MM

MM — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:32:08 +0000

I’m gonna punch you right in the nose! You hear me, right in the nose… and throat– a little.

By: The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:44:34 +0000

A yellow belt told me one time that my roundhouse kick sucked…so I broke his nose…that will teach him to critique me on my superior fighting skills..

Oh wait…I was supposed to listen and understand where he is coming from…how arrogant of me…

…get the joke?….

By: dichotomy

dichotomy — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:15:41 +0000

Thank you Maarten, your advise is foolhearty in light of the situation we are refrencing. The situation is a 7th kyu who doesn’t know the differance between a break fall and a forward roll decides to teach a 1st kyu how to do Ikkyo. In short, they don’t know what they are talking about… It really doesn’t matter what they think the technique should look, feel, or be like. By your logic, we should pull random people off the street to critique all our shihans so they can get some fresh prospective.

The ranking system isn’t perfect, and some people know more than others, but the reason we have it ( I say this because I honestly think you may not know why at this point) is so that only people who know what they are talking about are teaching in order to promote technically good Aikido. When is the last time you had a 7th kyu teach in your dojo (assuming of course that you train in Aikido and are not just a huge Steven Segal fan)?

By: MM

MM — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:07:45 +0000

People are taking this blog too seriously.
Why does it warrant opinion, moral high grounds, insightful verbiage etc etc?

Why can’t people just shrug and giggle, without fear others might not be inflicted with their wisdom ??

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:25:30 +0000

Maarten,

I agree with you. I intended my post to be tongue in cheek (i.e., not true to life).

Thanks for your comment.