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- From: richard@paragon.folly.welly.gen.nz (Richard Parry)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Charging for training?
- Message-ID: <722003435snx@paragon.folly.welly.gen.nz>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 12:30:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.183208.28300@ms.uky.edu>
- Reply-To: parry_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
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- Organization: Masterful Enterprises UnLimited.
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- In article <1992Nov15.183208.28300@ms.uky.edu> cyeomans@ms.uky.edu writes:
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- > very much; I don't think that my enthusiasm is lessened or the quality
- > of instruction goes down because I teach for money.
- >
- > What is almost always better in a noncommercial school is the quality of
- > the students, asthe instructor can boot the ones who aren't really there
- > to learn.
- >
- > I dream of opening such a university.
-
- Don't we all?
-
- There's making a living, and then there's a McDojo... Still, I belive
- that if you are taught for very little, you should teach in the same
- way... What goes around, comes around.
-
- Walker is still around. So is that horse guy. They just have no
- money...;) Sponsorship is the key, and sponsorship is not generally
- given to non-glamorous sports. I mean, for chrissakes! It's hard
- enough to get funding for our own tournaments! Let alone TV coverage!
-
- In the US, martial arts enjoy a much nicer profile (we can see that from
- here) - you even have specialty magazines (Black Belt etc). Down here,
- martial arts can sometimes been seen as a dirty scody dishonourable
- thing - much nicer to go with the nicer arts of boxing. However, our
- entire society is geared towards non-violence, and even boxing is not
- tha popular.
-
- Oh, for a Japanese or Korean attitude! 8-)
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